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Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics: a Roadmap CQGRDG Classical and Quantum Gravity TOPICAL REVIEW Recent citations Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental - On black hole temperature in Horndeski gravity physics: a roadmap K. Hajian et al - Constraints on the astrophysical To cite this article: Leor Barack et al 2019 Class. Quantum Grav. 36 143001 environment of binaries with gravitational- wave observations Vitor Cardoso and Andrea Maselli - Gravitational waveforms from the quasicircular inspiral of compact binaries View the article online for updates and enhancements. in massive Brans-Dicke theory Tan Liu et al IOP Classical and Quantum Gravity Class. Quantum Grav. Classical and Quantum Gravity Class. Quantum Grav. 36 (2019) 143001 (178pp) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab0587 36 Topical Review 2019 © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap CQGRDG Leor Barack1, Vitor Cardoso2,3,133 , Samaya Nissanke4,5,6, 143001 Thomas P Sotiriou7,8(editors), Abbas Askar9,10, Chris Belczynski9, Gianfranco Bertone5, Edi Bon11,12, 13 14 15 L Barack et al Diego Blas , Richard Brito , Tomasz Bulik , Clare Burrage8, Christian T Byrnes16, Chiara Caprini17, Masha Chernyakova18,19, Piotr Chru ciel20,21, Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap ś Monica Colpi22,23, Valeria Ferrari24, Daniele Gaggero5, Jonathan Gair25, Juan García-Bellido26, S F Hassan27, Printed in the UK Lavinia Heisenberg28, Martin Hendry29, Ik Siong Heng29, Carlos Herdeiro30, Tanja Hinderer4,14, Assaf Horesh31, 5 32 33,34 CQG Bradley J Kavanagh , Bence Kocsis , Michael Kramer , Alexandre Le Tiec35, Chiara Mingarelli36, Germano Nardini37, Gijs Nelemans4,6, Carlos Palenzuela38, Paolo Pani24, 10.1088/1361-6382/ab0587 Albino Perego39,40, Edward K Porter17, Elena M Rossi41, Patricia Schmidt4, Alberto Sesana42, Ulrich Sperhake43,44, Antonio Stamerra45,46, Leo C Stein43, Nicola Tamanini14, Thomas M Tauris33,47, L Arturo Urena-López48, Frederic Vincent49, Marta Volonteri50, Barry Wardell51, 1361-6382 Norbert Wex33, Kent Yagi52, Tiziano Abdelsalhin24, Miguel Ángel Aloy53, Pau Amaro-Seoane54,55,56, Lorenzo Annulli2, Manuel Arca-Sedda57, Ibrahima Bah58, Enrico Barausse50, Elvis Barakovic59, Robert Benkel7, Charles L Bennett58, Laura Bernard2, Sebastiano Bernuzzi60, Christopher P L Berry42, Emanuele Berti58,61, Miguel Bezares38, Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado62, Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo63, Matteo Bonetti64,23, Mateja Boškov ić2,65, Zeljka Bosnjak66, Katja Bricman67, Bernd Brügmann60, Pedro R Capelo68, Sante Carloni2, Pablo Cerdá-Durán53, Christos Charmousis69, Sylvain Chaty70, Aurora Clerici67, Andrew Coates71, Marta Colleoni38, Lucas G Collodel63, Geoffrey Compère72, William Cook44, Isabel Cordero- Carrión73, Miguel Correia2, Álvaro de la Cruz- Dombriz74, Viktor G Czinner2,75, Kyriakos Destounis2, Kostas Dialektopoulos76,77, Daniela Doneva71,78, Massimo Dotti22,23, Amelia Drew44, Christopher Eckner67, 133 Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed. 1361-6382/19/143001+178$33.00 © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd Printed in the UK 1 Class. Quantum Grav. 36 (2019) 143001 Topical Review James Edholm79, Roberto Emparan80,81, Recai Erdem82, Miguel Ferreira2, Pedro G Ferreira83, Andrew Finch84, Jose A Font53,85, Nicola Franchini7, Kwinten Fransen86, Dmitry Gal’tsov87,88, Apratim Ganguly89, Davide Gerosa43, Kostas Glampedakis90, Andreja Gomboc67, Ariel Goobar27, Leonardo Gualtieri24, Eduardo Guendelman91, Francesco Haardt92, Troels Harmark93, Filip Hejda2, Thomas Hertog86, Seth Hopper94, Sascha Husa38, Nada Ihanec67, Taishi Ikeda2, Amruta Jaodand95,96, Philippe Jetzer97, Xisco Jimenez-Forteza24,77, Marc Kamionkowski58, David E Kaplan58, Stelios Kazantzidis98, Masashi Kimura2, Shiho Kobayashi99, Kostas Kokkotas71, Julian Krolik58, Jutta Kunz63, Claus Lämmerzahl63,100, Paul Lasky101,102, José P S Lemos2, Jackson Levi Said84, Stefano Liberati103,104, Jorge Lopes2, Raimon Luna81, Yin-Zhe Ma105,106,107, Elisa Maggio108, Alberto Mangiagli22,23, Marina Martinez Montero86, Andrea Maselli2, Lucio Mayer68, Anupam Mazumdar109, Christopher Messenger29, Brice Ménard58, Masato Minamitsuji2, Christopher J Moore2, David Mota110, Sourabh Nampalliwar71, Andrea Nerozzi2, David Nichols4, Emil Nissimov111, Martin Obergaulinger53, Niels A Obers93, Roberto Oliveri112, George Pappas24, Vedad Pasic59, Hiranya Peiris27, Tanja Petrushevska67, Denis Pollney89, Geraint Pratten38, Nemanja Rakic113,114, Istvan Racz115,116, Miren Radia44, Fethi M Ramazanoğlu117, Antoni Ramos- Buades38, Guilherme Raposo24, Marek Rogatko118, Roxana Rosca-Mead44, Dorota Rosinska119, Stephan Rosswog27, Ester Ruiz-Morales120, Mairi Sakellariadou13, Nicolás Sanchis-Gual53, Om Sharan Salafia121, Anuradha Samajdar6, Alicia Sintes38, Majda Smole11, Carlos Sopuerta122,123, Rafael Souza-Lima68, Marko Stalevski11, Nikolaos Stergioulas124, Chris Stevens89, Tomas Tamfal68, Alejandro Torres-Forné53, Sergey Tsygankov125, Kıvanç İ Ünlütürk117, Rosa Valiante126, Maarten van de Meent14, José Velhinho127, Yosef Verbin128, Bert Vercnocke86, Daniele Vernieri2, Rodrigo Vicente2, Vincenzo Vitagliano129, Amanda Weltman74, Bernard Whiting130, Andrew Williamson4, Helvi Witek13, Aneta Wojnar118, Kadri Yakut131, Haopeng Yan93, Stoycho Yazadjiev132, Gabrijela Zaharijas67 and Miguel Zilhão2 2 Class. Quantum Grav. 36 (2019) 143001 Topical Review 1 Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom 2 CENTRA, Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico—IST, Universidade de Lisboa—UL, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049 Lisboa, Portugal 3 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada 4 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands 5 GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6 Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom 8 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom 9 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland 10 Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy, and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Box 43, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden 11 Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia 12 Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, Yugoslavia branch, Serbia 13 Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King’s College London, University of London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom 14 Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Muhlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany 15 Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, 00478 Warsaw, Poland 16 Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom 17 APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/ Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France 18 School of Physical Sciences and Centre for Astrophysics & Relativity, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, United Kingdom 19 Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, United Kingdom 20 University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A 1090 Wien, Austria 21 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Le Bois-Marie, 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France 22 Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dip. di Fisica ‘G. Occhialini’, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy 23 INFN—Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy 24 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ‘Sapienza’ & Sezione INFN Roma1, P.A. Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy 25 School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom 26 Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain 27 Department of Physics & The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Cetre, SE-106 91 Stockholm 28 Institute for Theoretical Studies, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 47, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 29 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom 3 Class. Quantum Grav. 36 (2019) 143001 Topical Review 30 Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro and CIDMA, Campus de Santiago, 3810-183 Aveiro, Portugal 31 Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel 32 Institute of Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Budapest, 1117, Hungary 33 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany 34 Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom 35 LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 92190 Meudon, France 36 Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States of America 37 Universität Bern, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland 38 Departament de Física & IAC3, Universitat de les Illes Balears and Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares E-07122, Spain 39 INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, gruppo collegato di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 7/A, IT-43124 Parma, Italy 40 Dipartimento di Fisica G. 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