As a benchmark against which to compare upcoming O2 data, I have compiled a list of narrow lines seen in the H1 DARM spectrum up to 2000 Hz, using 107 hours of ER10 FScan 30-minute SFTs. There are no big surprises relative to the lines and combs Ansel and I have reported on previously from ER9 and later data, but below are some observations. Attached figures show selected band spectra, and a zipped attachment contains a much larger set of bands. Also attached for reference is a plaintext list of combs, isolated lines, PEM-associated lines. etc. In the attached spectra, the red curve is the ER10 data, and the black curve is the full-O1 data. The label annotations are keyed to the height of the red curve, but in some cases, those labels refer to lines in the O1 data that are not (yet) visible in accumulated current data. For the most part, lines seen in O1 that don't show up in ER10 nonetheless remain for now in the lines list and still have labels on the graphs that end up in the red fuzz. If they fail to emerge in O2 data, they will be deleted from future line lists. Observations:
Here is a plot of the violin mode harmonics around 1kHz, comparing the amplitudes today to the amplitudes right after the damping efforts of Nov 30th.
We don't actively damp these by default, only when someone manually engages damping do they get damped. Durring the first part of ER10 ISI trips caused by tidal problems were ringing them up, but that problem is fixed now and most modes are ringing down. ETMX modes (between 1003 and 1006Hz) have increased in amplitude since the 30th.
The largest peak here is the pair on ETMY that Keith points out, we have settings that work to damp both of these modes using the mode9 filter bank on ETMY, and it would not be difficult to turn this damping on automatically in the guardian.
Our question for Keith and detchar is is this (the current spectrum) good enough? Or should we continue to try to add automatic damping for some of these modes?
Automatically damping the violin modes would reduce up-conversion contamination at the starts of lock stretches, making more data usable for CW searches. Even small excess powers in narrow bins leads to unnecessary outliers in analysis that waste computing and manpower. Unless there is a downside to such damping, it seems warranted. thanks, Keith