K A Arnaud et al 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 S551 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/19/S18
K A Arnaud1, S Babak2, J G Baker1, M J Benacquista3, N J Cornish4, C Cutler5, L S Finn6, S L Larson7, T Littenberg4, E K Porter2,4, M Vallisneri5, A Vecchio8,9 and J-Y Vinet10 (The Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force)
Show affiliationsThe 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.
04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments
07.05.Kf Data analysis: algorithms and implementation; data management
04.70.-s Physics of black holes
85A15 Galactic and stellar structure
78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (See also 81V80)
Issue 19 (7 October 2007)
Received 4 April 2007
Published 19 September 2007
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