Planned activities and reports
Since the LSC and Virgo have joined forces on data analysis activities, these pages are now frozen. Ongoing searches for gravitational waves from compact binary systems are performed under the Compact Binary Coalescence group. Please look at that web site for more information about the group, mail lists, and cvs access and other resources.
The long term plans of the inspiral group are captured in the white paper at [ PDF ]--revisited annually by the group.
This page provides details of personnel commitments on a short term basis as discussed during face-to-face meetings; individuals should provide links to their e-note entries or other reports of their inspiral group activities for use in the annual report to the LSC that must be prepared by the chairs.
Numbers in brackets indicate the time commitment in FTE months (an FTE month is 20 by 8 hour days of one person's time) during the specified period.
Aug-Nov 2006
- S3/S4 joint analysis (Paper distributed to LSC): Thomas, Patrick, Alex, Andy, Chad, Steve, Gaby, .....
- S5 BNS (epoch #1; internal report): Drew, Jake, Rahul, Jeff, Steve, Duncan, Alan, ......
- Systematics/Tuning/pipeline papers (draft that can be circulated): Chad, Steve .......
- S3 SBBH: Gareth, Sathya, ....
- S4 Ringdown: Lisa, Duncan, Alan, ....
- Follow-ups/detection checklist: Jake, Jeff, Gaby, Natalia, Tracy, .... (project to be defined better at Nov f2f)
- S5 BBH (epoch #1): Eirini, Romain, ......
- S5 post-Newtonian (calendar year): Eirini, Romain, Drew, Jake, Rahul, Jeff, .....
- Template bank vetoes: Chad,
- S5 GRB: Alex, Patrick, Nick, .....
- galaxy paper: Ravi, Chad, Vicky, Richard, .......
- S4/S5 SBBH: Hirotaka, Gareth, Chris, Diego, Duncan, .....
- S5 time-domain: Craig, Anand, .......
- TD Follow-up (go over in detail at f2f): Craig .....
- S5 PBH: ..........
June-Aug 2006
Projects to be completed or > 50% by Aug 2006 LSC Meeting
- s3/s4 joint analysis and paper (4-6 FTE months to complete)
- Gaby (0.5)
- Thomas (2)
- Andy(0.5)
- Chad(0.5)
- Steve(0.5)
- Patrick(0.25)
- Alex (0.5)
- s5 bns (4-6 FTE months to complete)
- Duncan (1), Drew (0.5), Rahul (0.5), Gaby (0.5), Jake (0.5)
- systematics & Bayesian (2)
- Steve (0.5), Patrick (0.25), Rahul (0.5),
- s4 ringdown (6-8)
- Lisa (2.5), Duncan (0.5)
- parameter space vetoes
- Chad (1), Andy (1), Drew (?),
June-Aug 2006
Projects to be completed or > 50% by Nov 2006 LSC Meeting
- * s3 sbbh (6-8) - Gareth (1.5+1.5), Sathya (0.25+0.25), Ben/Chad (0.0+0.0), Michele (0.25+0.25), Alessandra (0.25+0.25),
- * s5 grb (6-8) - Alex (2+2), Patrick (0.5+0.5),
- s5 bbh (6-8) - Eirini (1.5+2.0),
- tuning paper (4-6) - Chad (1+1), Andy (0.5+0.5), Steve (0.25+0.25), Thomas (0.25+0.25),
- pipeline paper (2-4) - Andy, Steve, Duncan, Stas, Patrick
- galaxy paper (2) - Gaby, Ravi, Chad,