The US LISA Project has commissioned the US LISA Mission Science Office to prepare a development plan for LISA data analysis, working in consultation with the LIST (LISA International Science Team) and the LISA science community. A preliminary outline and a draft of key sections was prepared this summer by the LISA Mission Science Office and distributed to the LIST in July. The plan, nicknamed “AMIGOS” (Analysis Methods for Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observations from Space), will describe work areas, priorities, levels of effort, and timelines for the development of methods, tools, and other resources for the scientific analysis of LISA data. The structure and level of planning detail in this document parallel those of the LISA Project’s Technology Development Plan (which is concerned with the development of the LISA instrument). During the Project Formulation Phase, AMIGOS will be an evolving document, held by the LISA Project, and coordinated with analogous ESA plans. It will help guide NASA-supported efforts in LISA data analysis between now and LISA’s launch.

The LISA Mission Science Office at JPL has organized a 2.5-day workshop to discuss, clarify, expand, and review the current AMIGOS draft, and more generally to gather the input of the LISA and GW science community on the planning of LISA data analysis. The workshop took place on October 13-15 at the Sheraton in Old Town Pasadena, CA. It was organized around short topical presentations, with ample time for discussion, reported collaboratively in real time on this wiki. The workshop was attended by a wide swath of experts from the LISA and GW science community in the U.S. and beyond.

This is the latest draft of the AMIGOS plan (v0.2, 2005/12/09), as presented at the December LIST meeting in Pasadena; this is the AMIGOS map, showing all the development tasks discussed in AMIGOS.

Navigate here for draft v0.1 of the AMIGOS plan (as presented at the AMIGOS meeting); you can add your comments. This is our collaborative bibliography.

Navigate here for the final AMIGOS agenda, with links to presentations and comments.

The list of participants.

• Meet-me line: (818) 393-2747. If it rings and does not respond, first call 626 583-8901 and ask for ext. 380. The meet-me line is only active when two parties are connected.
• quicktime feed. You may need a reasonably recent version of QuickTime
• Steve Drasco will be available at the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) screen-name “AMIGOS2005JPL” to troubleshoot technical problems and to take questions and comments from those watching the feed, but not on the meet-me line. There is also an AIM chat named “lisaamigos” to which remote participants can invite themselves. (The AIM network is also accessible with iChat and gaim.)

The audio quality should allow viewers to hear the speaker and most comments, while the video should be good enough to tell which slide the speaker is currently showing (download the slides here).

Moved here.