I took a quick look at six hours of 30-minute SFTs automatically created by FScans this morning (thanks for setting the intent bit!), to see if recent line mitigation attempts have reduced the amplitude of the 1-Hz and other combs at low frequencies. Unfortunately, the low-frequency noise floor is too elevated to say much yet about that mitigation success, but in the band 28-32 Hz, where last night's noise is lower, there do seem to be fewer and lower-level lines, including reduced amplitudes for the 1-Hz comb with a ~0.25-Hz offset. Please note that the 56.84-Hz comb reported in the ER9 data (present but weaker in O1 data) remains quite strong. There are other strong lines present, too, but I gather noise-hunting is just getting started. The 56.84-Hz comb suggests a DAQ problem somewhere, as noted before. The attached plots show different bands of O1 data (narrow black curves) superposed on last night's data (broad red swath). In each case, an inverse-noise weighting is used, to suppress periods of elevated noise. Figure 1 - 10-2000 Hz Figure 2 - 10-28 Hz Figure 3 - 28-32 Hz Figure 4 - 32-50 Hz Figure 5 - 50-100 Hz Figure 6 - 100-200 Hz Figure 7 - 200-1000 Hz Figure 8 - 1000-2000 Hz
Ansel just brought to my attention this alog entry by Robert identifying a 56.8-Hz line with the EX HWS. In that entry Robert suggests isolating the HWS power supply at EX as was done at EY (if I understand correctly) or shutting off the HWS during O2. Is there any reason to leave either HWS on during O2? The 56.84-Hz comb was visible at a low level in O1 data.
Update after looking at this + subsequent lock stretches (through last night):
These results are pretty consistent across the recent locks. Attached: a representative plot of these combs in the 30-50Hz region in 2 hours of the most recent lock stretch.