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An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges

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)

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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.


PACS

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

04.30.Db Wave generation and sources

07.60.Ly Interferometers

97.10.Nf Masses

MSC

85A15 Galactic and stellar structure

83C57 Black holes

83C35 Gravitational waves

78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (See also 81V80)

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 19 (7 October 2007)

Received 4 April 2007

Published 19 September 2007



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