This article is an introduction for the nonpractitioner to the ideas and issues of LISA data analysis, as reflected in the explorations and experiments of the participants in the Mock LISA Data Challenges. In particular, I discuss the methods and codes that have been developed for the detection and parameter estimation of supermassive black-hole binaries, extreme mass-ratio inspirals, and Galac...

Proposed Investigators: Tara Henderson* [email protected] University of Chicago Chaya Moskowitz* [email protected] Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Joanne Chou [email protected] Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center David Hodgson [email protected] Princess Margaret Hospital Rebecca Howell [email protected] MD Anderson Cancer Center Lisa Diller [email protected]...

The classi®cation of documents from a bibliographic database is a task that is linked to processes of information retrieval based on partial matching. A method is described of vectorizing reference documents from LISA which permits their topological organization using Kohonen's algorithm. As an example a map is generated of 202 documents from LISA, and an analysis is made of the possibilities o...

Cancer-related γ-glutamyl cyclotransferase (GGCT) specifically converts γ-glutamyl amino acids (γ-Glu-Xaa) into pyroglutamate and the corresponding amino acids (Xaa). Here we report a novel GGCT fluorogenic probe "LISA-101" containing a masked O-acylated fluorophore "resorufin" on the side chain of the P amino acid (Xaa). Upon GGCT treatment, the P amino acid was liberated and spontaneously rel...

ISSN 0951–8398 (print)/ISSN 1366–5898 (online)/04/030437–23 © 2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: 10.1080/0951839042000204607 Future aspirations of urban adolescents: a person-in-context model Selcuk R. Sirin 1 * , Matthew A. Diemer 2 , Lisa R. Jackson 3 , Lisa Gonsalves 4 & Angela Howell 2 1 Montclair State University, USA; 2 Boston College, USA; 3 Boston After-School Enterprise, USA; 4 University ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It expected that tens of millions Galactic binaries will be dominant sources observed waves. producing at mHz range emit quasi monochromatic waves, constantly measured by LISA. To resolve as many possible a central challenge upco...

The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range ∼ (10–10)M⊙/(1+z) will be detectable out to high redshifts with the future Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA). The distance and direction to these “standard sirens” can be inferred directly from the GW signal, with a precision that depends on the masses, spins and geometry o...

A new LISA simulator (LISACode) is presented. Its ambition is to achieve a new degree of sophistication allowing to map, as closely as possible, the impact of the different subsystems on the measurements. LISACode is not a detailed simulator at the engineering level but rather a tool whose purpose is to bridge the gap between the basic principles of LISA and a future, sophisticated end-to-end s...

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 t...

A four mass torsion pendulum facility for testing of the LISA GRS is under development in Trento. With a LISA-like test mass suspended off-axis with respect to the pendulum fiber, the facility allows for a direct measurement of surface force disturbances arising in the GRS. We present here results with a prototype pendulum integrated with very large-gap sensors, which allows an estimate of the ...