An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
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.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0701170,
title = {An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges},
author = {K A Arnaud and S Babak and J G Baker and M J Benacquista and N J Cornish and C Cutler and L S Finn and S L Larson and T Littenberg and E K Porter and M Vallisneri and A Vecchio and J-Y Vinet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0701170},
year = {2008}
}
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Proceedings of GWDAW-11. Corrected Challenge 2 definition (esp. Table 1), definition of polarization tensors in simulators, definition of polarization angle in EMRIs