HEP Theory Seminars

Gravitational wave probes of dark matter

Gianfranco Bertone

University of Amsterdam

After a brief introduction on the status of dark matter searches, I will discuss the prospects for characterizing and identifying dark matter using gravitational waves, covering a wide range of candidates and signals. I will present some new results on the detectability of dark matter overdensities around black holes in binary systems, and argue that future interferometers may enable precision studies of the dark matter distribution and particle properties.