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gabriele.vajente@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:05, Monday 01 February 2016 (25286)
What's the shape of the noise that's limiting us?

Aftef improving the angular decouplig and the feedforward, the noise curve looks quite smooth to me, except for a small bump betwen 15 and 20 Hz and some other bumps between 55 and 80 Hz, to be investigated.

So I played the noise slope fitting game, to see what kind of noise shape we would need to explain the curve. At high frequency there's shot noise (flat) and Kiwamu's 1/f noise. At very low frequency (below 14 Hz) the noise curve looks very steep, and it seems to be something like 1/f^9, although it's very difficult to properly estimate the slope here, it could easily be 1/f^10. 

What's most interesting to me is that between 20 and 40 Hz, the noise floor is explanable with a 1/f^4 slope. I find this interesting because it points to suspension displacement or actuation noise in the second to last stage, for example excess noise in a DAC or coil driver in one of the test masses, or even in the BS.

Caveat: this is just a hint, the slopes and amplitudes I estimated might be very wrong, and there's no real indication that we only have three or four separate noise contributions. 

P.S. I wanted to upload the MATLAB fig file, but it's 21 Mb and so it seems I can't attach it here.

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