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The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 3 to Challenge 4
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume
27
Issue
8
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of one or more datasets containing simulated instrument noise and gravitational waves from sources of undisclosed parameters. Participants analyze the datasets and report best-fit solutions for the source parameters. Here we present the results of the third challenge, issued in April 2008, which demonstrated the positive recovery of signals from chirping galactic binaries, from spinning supermassive-black-hole binaries (with optimal SNRs between ~10 and 2000), from simultaneous extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (SNRs of 10–50), from cosmic-string-cusp bursts (SNRs of 10–100), and from a relatively loud isotropic background with Ωgw(f) ~ 10−11, slightly below the LISA instrument noise.
Recommended Citation
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 3 to Challenge 4, Stanislav Babak et al. (The Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force), Classical & Quantum Gravity 27, 084009-1,12 (2010).
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084009
Comments
Originally published by Institute of Physics in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Publisher's PDF available through remote link. May require subscription if user is not on the USU Network.