Stanislav Babak et al 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 184026 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184026
Stanislav Babak1, John G Baker2, Matthew J Benacquista3, Neil J Cornish4, Jeff Crowder5, Shane L Larson6, Eric Plagnol7, Edward K Porter1, Michele Vallisneri5,8, Alberto Vecchio9 (The Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force), Keith Arnaud2, Leor Barack10, Arkadiusz Błaut11, Curt Cutler5,8, Stephen Fairhurst12, Jonathan Gair1,13, Xuefei Gong14, Ian Harry12, Deepak Khurana15, Andrzej Królak16, Ilya Mandel8,17, Reinhard Prix18, B S Sathyaprakash12, Pavlin Savov8, Yu Shang14, Miquel Trias14, John Veitch9, Yan Wang19, Linqing Wen1,8,20 and John T Whelan1 (the Challenge-1B participants)
Show affiliationsThe Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of challenges had been completed, and the next was about to start. In this paper we provide a critical analysis of the entries to the latest completed round, Challenge 1B. The entries confirm the consolidation of a range of data-analysis techniques for galactic and massive-black-hole binaries, and they include the first convincing examples of detection and parameter estimation of extreme-mass-ratio inspiral sources. In this paper we also introduce the next round, Challenge 3. Its data sets feature more realistic waveform models (e.g., galactic binaries may now chirp, and massive-black-hole binaries may precess due to spin interactions), as well as new source classes (bursts from cosmic strings, isotropic stochastic backgrounds) and more complicated nonsymmetric instrument noise.
04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments
98.62.Js Galactic nuclei (including black holes), circumnuclear matter, and bulges
95.75.-z Observation and data reduction techniques; computer modeling and simulation
95.80.+p Astronomical catalogs, atlases, sky surveys, databases, retrieval systems, archives, etc.
85A15 Galactic and stellar structure
Issue 18 (21 September 2008)
Received 21 April 2008, in final form 11 June 2008
Published 2 September 2008
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