Reports until 17:51, Friday 01 May 2015
H1 AOS (DetChar)
edward.daw@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:51, Friday 01 May 2015 - last comment - 17:26, Monday 04 May 2015(18161)
Injection file for stochastic background
I have created a 10 minute injection file simulating a stochastic source at omega_GW=1 at 100Hz, and placed it on the cds system in:
/ligo/home/edward.daw/research/hardware_injections/2015_05_01/inj10mins.txt
The file was created as follows:
on the h1hwinj1 machine,
cd /ligo/home/edward.dad/research/hardware_injections/dependencies/sources/virgo/NAPNEW/SCRIPTS/IsotropicSbGenerator
python IsotropicSbGenerator.py --init IsotropicSbGenerator2.ini
This code generates a single 600 second frame which I subsequently moved to /ligo/home/edward.daw/research/hardware_injections/2015_05_01/SB_HI_L1-1114555770-600.gwf.
To convert the frame to an ascii file, I tried running a local matlab, but I couldn't get a license. I therefore shipped the frame to my laptop, and used matlab interactively:
>> [data,tsamp]=frgetvect('SB_HI_L1-1114555770-600.gwf','H1:strain',1114555770,600);
>> outfile=fopen('inj10mins.txt','w');
>> fprintf(outfile,'%g',data);
>> fclose(outfile);
...and finally I used gsisftp to move the resulting text file back to the cds machine at the above location.
The above matlab code could easily be used to scale the data by a factor, as it seems you have done with previous injections, if the existing scale proves inappropriate for the injection. Please inject this 10 minute duration signal once the machine is stable and you are ready for more injection tests.
Thanks. 
Ed
Comments related to this report
eric.thrane@LIGO.ORG - 17:26, Monday 04 May 2015 (18217)INJ
Nice work Ed, Jeff, and Giancarlo getting this ready in time for the mini run.  I have a similar question to the one posed by Jeff.

Is the output of the file in units of strain or is in units of Initial LIGO counts?  The reason I ask is because, during Initial LIGO, we used this code, or code like it, to create injection files with a frequency-dependent transfer function applied.  For aLIGO, we don't want to apply this transfer function.  Would it be possible to make a plot of the amplitude spectral density of the injection file?  It should have a power-law shape with index -3/2.