TY - JOUR
T1 - The mock LISA data challenges
T2 - From challenge 1B to challenge 3
AU - Babak, Stanislav
AU - Baker, John G.
AU - Benacquista, Matthew J.
AU - Cornish, Neil J.
AU - Crowder, Jeff
AU - Larson, Shane L.
AU - Plagnol, Eric
AU - Porter, Edward K.
AU - Vallisneri, Michele
AU - Vecchio, Alberto
AU - Arnaud, Keith
AU - Barack, Leor
AU - Błaut, Arkadiusz
AU - Cutler, Curt
AU - Fairhurst, Stephen
AU - Gair, Jonathan
AU - Gong, Xuefei
AU - Harry, Ian
AU - Khurana, Deepak
AU - Królak, Andrzej
AU - Mandel, Ilya
AU - Prix, Reinhard
AU - Sathyaprakash, B. S.
AU - Savov, Pavlin
AU - Shang, Yu
AU - Trias, Miquel
AU - Veitch, John
AU - Wang, Yan
AU - Wen, Linqing
AU - T Whelan, John
PY - 2008/9/21
Y1 - 2008/9/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - LISA (observatory)
KW - wave detection
KW - Gravity waves
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=56349115880&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184026
DO - 10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:56349115880
SN - 0264-9381
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Classical and Quantum Gravity
JF - Classical and Quantum Gravity
IS - 18
M1 - 184026
ER -