23:29UTC coming out of observing to damp 4735 which is currently aroun 1e-17

This configuration uses 45mhz blends on the corner station BSCs, making us much more vulnerable to wind. The forecast for the the next week looks okay as far as wind goes, but if it winds pick up, we should switch back.

I spoke to Radar at Livingston and he told me that high microseism and wind has them down for at least the day. Weather there is deteriorating. Outlook for L1 locking unknown at this time.

Robert back from EY and into CER.

Robert now heading to EX.

Robert back.

The CBC wiki page has been moved to https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/ligovirgo/cbcnote/PyCBC/O2SearchSchedule/O2Analysis2LoudTriggers/PSLblips

I ran PCAT on H1:GDS-CALIB_STRAIN and H1:PSL-ISS_PDA_REL_OUT_DQ from November 30, 2016 to December 31, 2016 with a relatively high threshold (results here: https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~cavaglia/pcat-multi/PSL_2016-11-30_2016-12-31.html). Then I looked at the coincidence between the two channels. The list of coincident triggers is:

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List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 1:
#1:	1164908667.377000

List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 10:
#1:	1164895965.198000
#2:	1164908666.479000

List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 2:
#1:	1164882018.545000

List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 4:
#1:	1164895924.827000
#2:	1164895925.031000
#3:	1164895925.133000
#4:	1164895931.640000
#5:	1164895931.718000
#6:	1164895958.491000
#7:	1164895958.593000
#8:	1164895965.097000
#9:	1164908667.193000
#10:	1164908667.295000
#11:	1164908673.289000
#12:	1164908721.587000
#13:	1164908722.198000
#14:	1164908722.300000
#15:	1164908722.435000

List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 7:
#1:	1166374569.625000
#2:	1166374569.993000

List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 8:
#1:	1166483271.312000

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I followed-up with omega scans and among the triggers above, only 1164882018.545000 is a blip glitch. The others are ~ 1 sec broadband glitches with frequency between 512 and 1024. A few scans are attached to the report.

Hi Marco,

your 'List of triggers common to PSL Type 1 and GDS Type 4' (15 times in two groups) are all during the known times of telephone audio disturbance on Dec 4 - see https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=32503 and https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/ligovirgo/cbcnote/PyCBC/O2SearchSchedule/O2Analysis2LoudTriggers/PSLGlitches

I think these don't require looking into any further, the other classes may tell us more.

The GDS glitches that look like blips in the time series seem to be type 2, 7, and 8. You did indeed find that the group of common glitches PSL - GDS type 2 is a blip glitch. However, the PSL glitches in the groups with GDS type 7 and 8 do not look like blips in the omega scan. The subset we identified clearly shows blip glitch morphology in the omega scan for the PSL channel, so it is not surprising that those two groups turned out not to be blips in GDS.

It is though surprising that you only found one time with a coincident blip in both channels, when we identified several more times in just one week of data from the omicron triggers. What was the "relatively high threshold" you used?

Hi. Sorry for taking so long with this. I rerun PCAT on the PSL and GDS channels between 2016-11-30 and 2016-12-31 with a lower threshold for glitch identification (glitches with amplitude > 4 sigma the noise floor) and with a larger coincidence window (coincident glitches within 0.1 seconds). The list of found coincident glitches is attached to the report. Four glitches in Miriam's list [https://www.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~miriam.cabero/LSC/blips/O2_PSLblips.txt] show up in the list: 1164532915.0 (type 1 PSL/type 3 GDS), 1164741925.6 (type 1 PSL/type 1 GDS), 1164876857.0 (type 8 PSL/type 1 GDS), 1164882018.5 (type 1 PSL/type 8 GDS). I looked at other glitches in these types and found only one additional blip at 1166374567.1 (type 1 PSL/type 1 GDS) out of 9 additional coincident glitches. The typical waveforms of the GDS glitches show that the blip type(s) in GDS are type 1 and/or type 8. There are 1998 (type 1) and 830 (type 8) glitches in these classes. I looked at a few examples in cat 8 and indeed found several blip glitches which are not coincident with any glitch in the PSL channel. I would conclude that PCAT does not produce much evidence for a strong correlation of blip glitches in GDS and PSL. If there is, PSL-coincident glitches must be a small subset of blip glitches in h(t). However, some blips *are* coincident with glitches in the PSL, so looking more into this may be a good idea.

Hi,

thanks Marco for looking into this. We already expected that it was a small sub-set of blip glitches, because we only found very few of them and we knew the total number of blip glitches was much higher. However, I believe that not all blip glitches have the same origin and that it is important to identify sub-sets, even if small, to possibly fix whatever could be fixed.

I have extended the wiki page https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/ligovirgo/cbcnote/PyCBC/O2SearchSchedule/O2Analysis2LoudTriggers/PSLblips and the list of times https://www.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~miriam.cabero/LSC/blips/O2_PSLblips.txt up to yesterday. It is interesting to see that I did not identify any PSL blips in, e.g., Jan 20 to Jan 30, but that they come back more often after Feb 9. Unfortunately, it is not easy to automatically identify the PSL blips: the criteria I used for the omicron triggers (SNR > 30, central frequency ~few hundred Hz) do not always yield to blips but also to things like https://ldvw.ligo.caltech.edu/ldvw/view?act=getImg&imgId=156436, which also affects CALIB_STRAIN but not in the form of blip glitches.

None of the times I added up to December appear in your list of coincident glitches, but that could be because their SNR in PSL is not very high and they only leave a very small imprint in CALIB_STRAIN compared with the ones from November. In January and February there are several louder ones with bigger effect on CALIB_STRAIN though.

The most recent iteration of PSL-ISS flag generation showed three relatively loud glitch times:
https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~detchar/hveto/day/20170210/latest/scans/1170732596.35/

https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~detchar/hveto/day/20170210/latest/scans/1170745979.41/

https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~detchar/hveto/day/20170212/latest/scans/1170950466.83/

The first 2 are both on Feb 10, in fact a PSL-ISS channel was picked by Hveto on that day (https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~detchar/hveto/day/20170210/latest/#hveto-round-8) though not very high significance.
PSL not yet glitch-free?

Indeed PSL is not yet glitch free, as I already pointed out in my comment from last week.

Imene Belahcene, Florent Robinet

At LHO, a simple command line works well at printing PSL blip glitches:

source ~detchar/opt/virgosoft/environment.sh
omicron-print channel=H1:PSL-ISS_PDA_REL_OUT_DQ gps-start=1164500000 gps-end=1167500000 snr-min=30 freq-max=500 print-q=1 print-duration=1 print-bandwidth=1 | awk '$5==5.08&&$2<2{print}' 

GPS times must be adjusted to your needs.

This command line returns a few GPS times not contained in Miriam's blip list: must check that they are actual blips.

The PSL has different types of glitches that match those requirements. When I look at the Omicron triggers, I do indeed check that they are blip glitches before adding the times to my list. Therefore it is perfectly consistent that you find GPS times with those characteristics that are not in my list. However, feel free to check again if you want/have time. Of course I am not error-free :)

I believe the command I posted above is an almost-perfect way to retrieve a pure sample of PSL blip glitches. The key is to only print low-Q Omicron triggers.

For example, GPS=1165434378.2129 is a PSL blip glitch and it is not in Miriam's list.

There is nothing special about what you call a blip glitch: any broadband and short-duration (hence low-Q) glitch will produce the rain-drop shape in a time-frequency map. This is due to the intrinsic tiling structure of Omicron/Omega.

Next time I update the list (probably some time this week) I will check the GPS times given by the command line you suggest (it would be nice if it does indeed work perfectly at finding only these glitches, then we'd have an automated PSL blips finder!)