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Supermassive Binary Black Holes

LISA may be able to observe the coalescence of binary systems of supermassive black holes (SMBH-SMBH) out to very high redshift. These observations may provide important new information about the process of structure formation in the young universe.

Several data sets for this class of source are provided below. Each data file set is split into two parts. Both parts will be needeed by researchers developing data analysis techniques SMBH-SMBH systems. The larger LISA Simulator output (lso) file set contains pre-generated LISA Simulator output ready for data analysis study. The smaller "incident wave" (iw) file set, with information about the arriving gravitational waves contains only the data needed by researchers running the LISA Simulator on their own.

SMBH-SMBH mock data

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Montana Group - July 2003
10⁴ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun	10⁵ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun 10⁵ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun	10⁶ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun 10⁶ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun	10⁷ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁷ M_sun	10⁸ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁷ M_sun 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁸ M_sun
Caltech Group - November 2003
10⁶ + 10⁶ @ Z=1 10⁵ + 10⁵ @ Z=10

Contributor Description Incident Wave Data Output Data Images

Montana Group 10⁴ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH4BH4z1-iw.tar.gz (134Mb) BH4BH4z1-lso.tar.gz (454Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁵ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH5BH4z1-iw.tar.gz (134Mb) BH5BH4z1-lso.tar.gz (452Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁵ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH5BH5z1-iw.tar.gz (132Mb) BH5BH5z1-lso.tar.gz (451Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁶ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH6BH4z1-iw.tar.gz (132Mb) BH6BH4z1-lso.tar.gz (451Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁶ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH6BH6z1-iw.tar.gz (127Mb) BH6BH6z1-lso.tar.gz (444Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH7BH4z1-iw.tar.gz (127Mb) BH7BH4z1-lso.tar.gz (444Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH7BH5z1-iw.tar.gz (127Mb) BH7BH5z1-lso.tar.gz (444Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH7BH6z1-iw.tar.gz (124Mb) BH7BH6z1-lso.tar.gz (439Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁷ M_sun x 10⁷ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH7BH7z1-iw.tar.gz (123Mb) BH7BH7z1-lso.tar.gz (434Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁴ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH8BH4z1-iw.tar.gz (120Mb) BH8BH4z1-lso.tar.gz (432Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁵ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH8BH5z1-iw.tar.gz (119Mb) BH8BH5z1-lso.tar.gz (432Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁶ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH8BH6z1-iw.tar.gz (114Mb) BH8BH6z1-lso.tar.gz (410Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁷ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH8BH7z1-iw.tar.gz (117Mb) BH8BH7z1-lso.tar.gz (429Mb) Images

Montana Group 10⁸ M_sun x 10⁸ M_sun
Simulator Settings BH8BH8z1-iw.tar.gz (115Mb) BH8BH8z1-lso.tar.gz (422Mb) Images

Caltech Group Text Description File directory
1x10⁶ + 1x10⁶ @ z=1 Barycenter (545Mb) Michelson (2Gb)
TDI (2Gb)
Images directory

Caltech Group Text Description File directory
1x10⁵ + 1x10⁵ @ z=10 Barycenter (551Mb) Michelson (2Gb)
TDI (2Gb)
Images directory