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keith.riles@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:28, Tuesday 06 December 2016 - last comment - 05:48, Thursday 08 December 2016(32289)
Narrow lines in H1 ER10 data
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:
  • As noted previously, the 8-Hz / 16-Hz combs seen in O1 are blessedly gone
  • Thanks to interventions to upgrade timing electronics firmware, the previously dominant low-frequency comb with 1-Hz spacing and 0.5-Hz offset is greatly reduced (but not eliminated)
  • Compared to O1, the non-linear upconversion around quad violin modes and harmonics is much worse in ER10, and it appears that at least some violin mode excitations are affecting the low frequency band in that one sees there a multitude of sparsely distributed doublets, triples and quadruplets of lines with a spacing of about 0.0468 Hz. Andy Lundgren pointed out that this spacing coincides closely with a beat between two 2nd-harmonic violin modes he reported on last week. If I measure / eyeball those frequencies as seen in the ER10 data set, I get 1009.4414 and 1009.4881 Hz, giving a beat of 0.0467 Hz (but with an uncertainty of a few tenths of a mHz), consistent with the explanation. Further credence comes from the proliferation of such doublets / triplets / quadruplets seen in the wings of the quad harmonics (fundamental and higher).
  • There are so many upconverted lines around the quad harmonics that I didn't bother cataloguing them in those regions on the assumption that they will go away in O2 with improved damping (but cataloguing can be revisited later, if needed).
  • With the exception of the violin mode regions, the higher frequency spectrum is generally free of narrow lines (unlike the region below 100 Hz), but one disturbing feature is the presence of non-Gaussian broad disturbances that were not visible in O1. The infamous region around 1083 Hz is one example, as is the 100-200 Hz band.
Figures: [ER10 in red and O1 in black; labels are attached to peaks in the ER10 data] Fig 1 - 0-1000 Hz Fig 2 - 1000-2000 Hz Fig 3 - 2-20 Hz Fig 4 - 20-50 Hz Fig 5 - 50-100 Hz Fig 6 - 100-200 Hz Fig 7 - 490-535 Hz Fig 8 - 1000-1000 Hz Fig 9 - 1800-1900 Hz Other attachments: * zipped file with full set of sub-band spectra * Lines list with label definitions
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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 12:39, Wednesday 07 December 2016 (32311)DetChar

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?  

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keith.riles@LIGO.ORG - 05:48, Thursday 08 December 2016 (32355)
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
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