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An Overview of the Second Round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume
24
Issue
19
Publication Date
2007
First Page
S551
Last Page
S564
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.
Recommended Citation
An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges. K. A. Arnaud, S. Babak, J. G. Baker, M. J. Benacquista, N. J. Cornish, C. Cutler, S. L. Larson, B. S. Sathyaprakash, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio, J-Y. Vinet (The Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force). Classical & Quantum Gravity 24, S551-564 (2007).
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/24/19/S18
Comments
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