daniel.vander-hyde@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:07, Wednesday 24 October 2018 (44785)
TCS model check
TVo, Danny
We thought it would be worthwhile to do a check on how well we can reproduce the current power up from 2W to 22W with our current TCS model.
With the current settings of our CO2s at 2 watts, a 23 microdiopter +/- 3 microdiopter change is expected according to our model (with arm gain at 265 +/- 15). A simple python script is attached outlining the parameters used and the calculation.
We are consistently measuring (please see two figures attached) a change of approximately 19 microdiopters (only looking at the ITMY HWS data as we are still working on improving the ITMX HWS).
The uncertainty in the arm gain is what can leave such a large percent difference from 4% to 25%. We plan on updating this and ITMY and ITMX absorption over time.