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    LISA Discussion Group

    Place: OSMOND 318
    Time: Tuesdays, 2:15pm - 4:00pm

    Welcome to a new semester of LISA Reading Group! Our previous encounters can be found here:

    [ Fall 2004 | Spring 2005 ]

    The goal of this weekly meeting is to survey, discuss and debate the LISA literature, particularly the "famous" works which are typically cited regarding LISA's capabilities, important computational and data analysis challenges for LISA, and essential astrophysics related to LISA sources.

    FORMAT: Each week we'll choose some literature to review and discuss. Meeting format for discussion of the papers will be roundtable, *without* prepared presentations. Since everyone will have read the paper(s), we'll work our way through the paper section by section. Each person will take a section and kick start the discussion.

    The goal in discussion is summarize the main points of the papers, unveil and flay to death confusing issues and points, and make connections to other interesting tidbits of unique and relevant knowledge that each of us has at our respective fingertips.

    PAPERS: The topical areas will vary from week to week, hopefully alternating among astrophysics, data analysis, and detector papers. Papers will be chosen on a rolling basis using a very sophisticated screening process where Louis, Kelly and I huddle together and say "What do you think about this paper?" Suggestions for topics of explicit interest to participants in this reading group will be gratefully accepted.

    A chronology of our readings can be found below, with links to electronic documents. For an extensive list of LISA literature, visit our local LISA literature survey. For jumping off points to all things LISA, visit our local LISA Resources Page.

    Supplements

    Collection of additional materials used during, alluded to, or produced as a consequence of our discussions in the LISA Reading Group.

    1. 13 Dec 2005 Evolution of LISA's parameter determination ability with time.
      Neil Cornish Protected observing periods for LISA
      White Paper Oct, 2005
      [ PDF ]

    2. 18 Nov 2005 Light reading about binaries.
      I. Iben and A. Tutukov The Lives of Stars: from birth to death and beyond
      Sky and Telescope Dec97/Jan98
      [part 1 PDF | part 2 PDF ]

    Reading Schedule

    Tuesday, 13 December 2005

    1. LIST Meeting Report (Shane and Louis)

    This week Shane and Louis will report on what they learned and heard at the LISA Data Analysis Stake Holders (DASH) and LISA Internation Scient Team (LIST) meetings in Pasadena.

    Tuesday, 29 November 2005

    1. I. Iben, "Single and binary star evolution", section III, ApJ Supp. 76 55 (1991).
      [PDF ]

    This week our friends from the Astro Department, Mercedes Richards and Richard Wade, will join us for a round table about degenerate stars and binaries. For reading, a classic about stellar evolution -- section III only, pages 63-73.

    Tuesday, 22 November 2005

    1. Frans Pretorius, "Evolution of binary black hole spacetimes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 121101 (2005).
      [PDF ]

    2. J. Baker, J. Centrella, D. Choi, M. Koppitz and J. vanMeter, "Gravitational wave extraction from an inspiraling configuration of merging black holes", gr-qc/0511103
      [PDF ]
    3. M. Campanelli, C. Lousto, P. Marronetti and Y. Zlochower, "Accurate evolutions of orbiting black hole binaries without excision", gr-qc/0511048
      [PDF ]

    This week our Numerical Relativity compatriots will discuss with us the recent progress in black hole binary orbits and what implications there are for GW physics.

    Tuesday,15 November 2005

    1. Savvas M. Koushiappas and Andrew R. Zentner, "Testing models of supermassive black hole seed formation through gravity waves", astro-ph/0503511, accepted in ApJ.
      [PDF ]

    This week well return to the topics of black holes, and look at a paper about constraining models of populations.

    Tuesday, 8 November 2005

    1. G. Nelemans, L. Yngelson and S. Portegies Zwart, "Short-period AM CVn systems as optical, X-ray and GW sources", MNRAS, 349, 181 (2004).
      [PDF ]

    2. A. Cooray, A. Farmer and N. Seto "Optical identification of close WD binaries in the LISA era", ApJ, 601, L47 (2004).
      [PDF ]

    We'll take a look at multi-messenger aspects of the most prolific source of gravitational waves in the LISA band, white dwarf binaries.

    Tuesday, 24 October 2005

    1. L. Rubbo, K. Holley-Bockelmann and L. S. Finn, "Event rate for extreme mass ratio burst sources in the LISA band"

    Review comments of EMRB paper.

    Tuesday, 18 October 2005

    1. No paper.

    Gropu discussion of phenomenological fitting with Matthew Francis, visiting form Rutgers.

    Monday, 10 October 2005 (Data Analysis Day)

    1. Thomas A. Moore and Ronald W. Hellings, "Angular resolution of space-based gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 65, 062001 (2002).
      [PDF ]

    2. C. Cutler "Angular resolution of the LISA gravitational wave detector", Phys. Rev. D, 57, 7089 (1998).
      [PDF ]

    3. A. Vecchio "LISA observations of rapidly spinning massive black hole binary systems", Phys. Rev. D, 70, 042001 (2004).
      [PDF ]

    We are trying to understand how the SNRs is computed and evolves as a function of time, and the implications for parameter estimation. SECTION V of Cutler, ALL of Moore/Hellings (or just III if you don't want to read all the helpful introductory stuff), and Vecchio is optional.

    Monday, 3 October 2005

    1. M. Coleman Miller, M. Freitag, D. Hamilton and V. Lauburg "Binary encounters with supermassive black holes: zero eccentricity LISA events", astro-ph/0507133, submitted to ApJ Letters (2005).
      [PDF ]

    Something lightweight to start the semester off with; paper is just like the title says, for our head-scratching enjoyment.

    Monday, 26 September 2005

    1. B. Kocsis, Z. Frei, Z. Haiman and K. Menou "Finding the electromagnetic counterparts of cosmological standard sirens", astro-ph/0505394, accepted in ApJ (2005).
      [PDF ]

    Kristen Menou will be joining us for a visit, so we'll take advantage of that fact and look at a topic he is working on. :-)

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