Last Modified: 2002 October 21
Charlie Torres / charlie@phys.utb.edu
The LIGO/LSC Algorithm Library (LAL) is collection of C routines that will be used to search for gravitational wave signals in data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Members of LIGO laboratory and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) have been writing LAL code to implement searches for binary inspiral, periodic, stochastic, and unmodelled gravitational wave sources.
The interface between the LAL search algorithms and the LIGO Data Analysis System (LDAS) is provided by LALWrapper, which contains a number of dynamically-loaded shared objects, each one of which allows a particular type of search to be run within the LDAS wrapperAPI. LALWrapper search algorithms for different types of searches are in various stages of development.
Members of the UTBRG are currently involved in code development for stochastic and unmodelled burst sources. The code for these searches was tested at the 2001 September Burst/Stochastic Mock Data Challenge.
The readiness of a variety of LAL data analysis code for stochastic and unmodelled burst sources was tested during the Burst-Stochastic Mock Data Challenge, held 2001 September 4-10 at MIT.