Reports until 12:40, Monday 22 February 2016
H1 SEI
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:40, Monday 22 February 2016 (25661)
St1-2 Z Feedforward on BSC-ISIs

A while ago I worked on feed forward from BSC St1 sensors to St2 in Z. I've installed this and it has been running on all BSCs for a while, but I have taken my time in logging it. Attached spectra show the improvement, where dashed is on (ground STS and St2 gs-13s) and solid is off. Almost an order of magnitude improvement over 10 to 25 hz. It does do slightly worse at 4-5 hz, because of gain peaking, but we are mostly into gs13 noise at that point anyway. I've worked some on other DOFs, but Z was the easiest to do with the worst performance. In X&Y the existing controls already mostly keep us in the GS13 noise, so the room for improvement is smaller.

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