An overview of the second round of the mock LISA data challenges

EK Porter, M Vallisneri, Alberto Vecchio, JY Vinet, Lisa Force, KA Arnaud, S Babak, JG Baker, MJ Benacquista, NJ Cornish, C Cutler, LS Finn, SL Larson, T Littenberg

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Abstract

The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by the gravitational-wave community in distilling a rich science payoff from the LISA data. The first round of MLDCs has just been completed and the second-round data sets are being released shortly after this workshop. The second-round data sets contain radiation from an entire Galactic population of stellar-mass binary systems, from massive-black-hole binaries, and from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. These data sets are designed to capture much of the complexity that is expected in the actual LISA data, and should provide a fairly realistic setting to test advanced data-analysis techniques, and in particular the global aspect of the analysis. Here we describe the second round of MLDCs and provide details about its implementation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S551-S564
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume24
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2007

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