학술논문
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
Babak, Stanislav; Baker, John G.; Benacquista, Matthew J.; Cornish, Neil J.; Crowder, Jeff; Larson, Shane L.; Plagnol, Eric; Porter, Edward K.; Vallisneri, Michele; Vecchio, Alberto; Arnaud, Keith; Barack, Leor; Błaut, Arkadiusz; Cutler, Curt; Fairhurst, Stephen; Gair, Jonathan; Gong, Xuefei; Harry, Ian; Khurana, Deepak; Królak, Andrzej; Mandel, Ilya; Prix, Reinhard; Sathyaprakash, B. S.; Savov, Pavlin; Shang, Yu; Trias, Miquel; Veitch, John; Wang, Yan; Wen, Linqing; Whelan, John T.
Source
Class.Quant.Grav.25:184026,2008
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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 article we provide a critical analysis of 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 article 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.
Comment: 20 pages, 3 EPS figures. Proceedings of the 12th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Cambridge MA, 13--16 December 2007. Typos corrected
Comment: 20 pages, 3 EPS figures. Proceedings of the 12th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Cambridge MA, 13--16 December 2007. Typos corrected