We have a few piece of evidence that suggest that anthropegenic noise (probably trucks going to ERDF) couples to DARM through scattered light which is most likely hitting something that is attached to the ground in the corner station.
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Our spectrum is more non-stationary between 100-200 Hz durring times of high anthropegenic noise. Nairwita noted this by looking through summary pages (these glitches only seem to appear on weekdays between 7 am and 4pm local (14-23UTC), and not on Hanford Fridays when anthropegenic noise is low), and Jordan confirmed this by making a few comparisons of high/low anthropegenic noise within lock stretches. (alog 22594)
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Corner station ground sensors are a good witness of these glitches. HVETO shows this clearly (see page for October 14th for example). Also, comparison of bandpassed DARM to several corner ground motion sensors and accelerometers show that glitches in DARM coincide with ground motion (for example see nutsinee's alog 22527)
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The DARM spectragram at the time of these glitches show what looks like scattering arches from 1 Hz motion and a velocity of around 40 um second total path length change. alog 22523
Both this high velocity and the fact that the seismometers on the tables don't seem to witness this motion well suggest that something bolted to the ground is involved in the scattering. This velocity is probably too high for something bolted to the ground.
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The scattering amplitude ratio (ration of scattered amplitude to DC readout light on DCPDs) we would estimate bassed on the fringes in DARM 1e-5, similar to what we got in April Using the ISCT6 accelerometer to predict the velocity of the motion doesn't quite work out.
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Annamaria and Roert did some PEM injections in the east bay, which showed a linear coupling to DARM. Annamaria is still working on the data and trying to disentangle downconverion from the linear coupling, but if we assume that scattered light is responsible for the linear coupling the amplitude ratio is fairly consistent with what we got from the fringe wrapping when trucks go by.
On monday, Evan and I went to ISCT6 and listened to DARM and watched a spectrum while tapping and knocking on various things. We couldn't get a response in DARM by tapping around ISCT6. We tried knocking fairly hard on the table, the enclosure, tapping aggresively on all the periscope top mirrors, and several mounts on the table and nothing showed up. We did see something in DARM at around 100 Hz when I tapped loudly on the light pipe, but this seemed like an excitation that is much louder than anything that would normaly happen. Lastly we tried knocking on the chamber walls on the side of HAM6 near ISCT6, and this did make some low frequency noise in DARM. Evan has the times of our tapping.
It might be worth revisiting the fringe wrapping measurements we made in April by driving the ISI, the OMC sus, and the OMs. It may also be worth looking at some of the things done at LLO to look accoustic coupling through the HAM5 bellow (19450 and
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14:31: tapping on HAM6 table
14:39: tapping on HAM6 chamber (ISCT6 side), in the region underneath AS port viewport
14:40: tapping on HAM6 chamber (ISCT6 side), near OMC REFL light pipe
14:44: with AS beam diverter open, tapping on HAM6 chamber (ISCT6 side)
14:45: with OMC REFL beam diverter open, tapping on HAM6 chamber (ISCT6 side)
14:47: beam diverters closed again, tapping on HAM6 chamber (ISCT6 side)
All times 2015-10-19 local
I've made some plots based on the tap time Evan recorded (the recorded time seems off by half a minute or so compare to what really shows up in the accelerometer and DARM). Not all taps created signals in DARM but every signal that showed up in DARM has the same feature in a spectrogram (visible at ~0-300Hz, 900Hz, 2000Hz, 3000Hz, and 5000Hz. See attachment2). Timeseries also reveal that whether or not the tap would show up in DARM does not seems to depend on the overall amplitude of the tap (seen in HAM6 accelerometer, see attachment 3). PEM spectrum during different taps times doesn't seem to give any clue why one tap shows up in DARM more than the other (attachment 4,5). Apology for the wrong conclusion I drew earlier based on the spectrum I plotted using wrong GPS time (those plots have been deleted).
I zoomed in a little closer at higher frequency and realized this pattern is similiar to the unsolved n*505 glitches. Could this be a clue to figuring out the mechanism that caused the n*505?