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andrew.lundgren@LIGO.ORG - posted 02:03, Monday 19 October 2015 - last comment - 23:51, Wednesday 21 October 2015(22631)
Calibration artifact around 508 Hz in ER8
During ER8, there was a calibration artifact around 508 Hz - a non-stationary peak with a width of about 5 Hz. The peak went away on Sep 14 16 UTC probably due to an update of the calibration filters which was documented in this alog. When re-calibrated data is produced, it's worth having a look at some of this ER8 time to check that the peak is removed.

I made a comparison spectrum a bit before and after the change of the filters (plot 1). The wide peak is removed and the violin modes that it covers (ETMY modes, maybe some others) appears. I did the same thing for a longer span of time, comparing Sep 11 and Oct 17 (plot 2). The artifact manifests itself also as an incoherence between GDS-CALIB_STRAIN and OMC-DCPD_SUM (plot 3). The only other frequency where these channels aren't coherent is at the DARM_CTRL calibration line at 37.3 Hz.

I've also made a spectrogram (plot 4) of the artifact. It has blobs of power every several seconds. The data now looks more even (plot 5), though it's more noisy because the calibration lines are lower.
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kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - 23:51, Wednesday 21 October 2015 (22739)

I agree that it was due to bad digital filters in CAL-CS. See my recent investigation on this issue at alog 22738.

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