The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3
Abstract
The 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.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- September 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184026
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0806.2110
- Bibcode:
- 2008CQGra..25r4026B
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 3 EPS figures. Proceedings of the 12th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Cambridge MA, 13--16 December 2007. Typos corrected