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Published April 21, 2010 | Published
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The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from challenge 3 to challenge 4

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 one or more datasets containing simulated instrument noise and gravitational waves from sources of undisclosed parameters. Participants analyze the datasets and report best-fit solutions for the source parameters. Here we present the results of the third challenge, issued in April 2008, which demonstrated the positive recovery of signals from chirping galactic binaries, from spinning supermassive-black-hole binaries (with optimal SNRs between ~10 and 2000), from simultaneous extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (SNRs of 10–50), from cosmic-string-cusp bursts (SNRs of 10–100), and from a relatively loud isotropic background with Ω_(gw)(f) ~ 10^(−11), slightly below the LISA instrument noise.

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© 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 16 November 2009, in final form 26 January 2010. Published 6 April 2010. The authors acknowledge support from the German Aerospace Center (SB, AP, JTW); the Max-Planck Society (SB, JTW, AP, RP, ELR); the LISA Mission Science Office at JPL (CC, MV); MNiSW grant N N203 387237 (AB, AK); NASA grants NNG04GD52G (MB), NNG05GI69G and NNX07AJ61G (NJC), 06-BEFS06-31 (MV and CC), NNX07AH22G (IM), and the NASA Center for GW Astronomy at the University of Texas, Brownsville; NSF grant PHY-0855494 (JTW), and the NSF A&A postdoctoral fellowship under AST- 0901985 (IM); the Science and Technology Facilities Council (AV); St Catharine's College, Cambridge (JG); E.U. FEDER funds, Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación projects FPA2007-60220, HA2007-0042 and CSD2007-00042, Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovació (MT). CC's and MV's work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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