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Purposes

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Taiji, a Chinese space-based gravitational wave detection project, aims to explore the millihertz gravitational wave universe with unprecedented sensitivity, targeting astrophysical and cosmological sources including Galactic binaries, massive black hole binaries, extreme mass-ratio inspirals, and stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds, etc. These observations are expected to provide transformative insights into astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. However, Taiji’s data analysis faces unique challenges distinct from ground-based detectors like LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, such as the overlap of numerous signals, extended data durations, more rigorous accuracy requirements for the waveform templates, non-negligible subdominant waveform complexities, incompletely characterized noise spectra, non-stationary noises, and various data anomalies. This paper presents the second round of Taiji Data Challenge, ...

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Taiji Data Challenge II (TDC II) comprises 5 groups of datasets (Challenge 0 - 4), each targeting specific challenge topics. Except for Challenge 0 designed as illustrative examples for the access and use of TDC II, most of the remaining datasets are blind (i.e. the source parameters are unknown).

An outline for the challenges:
Challenge 0: the “Verification” Datasets
Challenge 1: the “Global Fit” Dataset
Challenge 2: the “Single Source” Datasets
Challenge 3: the “End-to-End” Dataset
Challenge 4: the “Up-to-Date” Dataset

Each dataset is stored in a separate HDF5 (.h5) file. Please visit the Challenges page to access the download links and diagrams of data. Detailed descriptions on the challenge topics and datasets, as well as how the datasets are created can be found in the Documents page (see the TDC II paper and TDC II manual).
Instructions and examples on how to use these data are provided in the Tutorials of Triangle (the TDC II toolkit, also see the Documents page). Please make sure to read the README files before use. 

Timelines

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Prior to the official release, TDC II will initially deploy a beta test release. During this period, users are encouraged to propose any suggestions regarding the optimization of datasets. Please submit your results by Oct, 9, 2025 at the Results page (register required*). All the source parameters will be made public after this date.

Beta Test Release: May, 23, 2025
Official Release: May, 28, 2025
Result Submission Due: Oct, 9, 2025

* The registration and result submission system is temporarily under scheduled maintainance.  More sophisticated and robust logics and functionalities will be available shortly. 

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