Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge
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 several data sets containing simulated instrument noise and gravitational-wave sources of undisclosed parameters. Participants are asked to analyze the data sets and report the maximum information about source parameters. The challenges are being released in rounds of increasing complexity and realism: in this proceeding we present the results of Challenge 2, issued in January 2007, which successfully demonstrated the recovery of signals from supermassive black-hole binaries, from ~20,000 overlapping Galactic white-dwarf binaries, and from the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into central galactic black holes.
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@article{arxiv.0711.2667,
title = {Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge},
author = {Stanislav Babak and John G. Baker and Matthew J. Benacquista and Neil J. Cornish and Jeff Crowder and Curt Cutler and Shane L. Larson and Tyson B. Littenberg and Edward K. Porter and Michele Vallisneri and Alberto Vecchio and Gerard Auger and Leor Barack and Arkadiusz Blaut and Ed Bloomer and Duncan A. Brown and Nelson Christensen and James Clark and Stephen Fairhurst and Jonathan R. Gair and Hubert Halloin and Martin Hendry and Arturo Jimenez and Andrzej Krolak and Ilya Mandel and Chris Messenger and Renate Meyer and Soumya Mohanty and Rajesh Nayak and Antoine Petiteau and Matt Pitkin and Eric Plagnol and Reinhard Prix and Emma L. Robinson and Christian Roever and Pavlin Savov and Alexander Stroeer and Jennifer Toher and John Veitch and Jean-Yves Vinet and Linqing Wen and John T. Whelan and Graham Woan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2667},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, 2 EPS figures, proceedings of the 7th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, 8-14 July 2007, Sydney, Australia