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Authors: K A Arnaud, S Babak, J Baker, M J Benacquista, N J Cornish, C Cutler, L S Finn, S L Larson, T Littenberg, E K Porter, B S Sathyaprakash, M Vallisneri, A Vecchio, J-Y Vinet (the Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force)

Date: 30 Jan 2007

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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