Reports until 00:45, Monday 15 July 2019
H1 AOS (PEM, SYS)
kara.merfeld@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:45, Monday 15 July 2019 (50533)
ALS glitch rate drastically increased over O2 commissioning break, no evident decrease due to MSR work or burying fiber
I found no apparent correlations between the ALS glitch rates and any environmental factors as presented in Alog 49603, specifically wind speed, and the temperature and relative humidity of the roof and the MSR. I proceeded to run my code for O2, and generated a timeline of the ALS glitch rates over the duration of O2.  This timeline shows that the ALS glitch rates have increased by 30 times in the X arm and 11 times in the Y arm over the O2 commissioning break.  The mean glitch rates in the X arm before and after commissioning were 0.063 glitches/s, and 1.937 glitches/s.  The mean glitch rates in the Y arm before and after commissioning were 1.018g/s and 11.49g/s.  

I have also plotted the glitch rates for O2 and O3 on the same plot. This shows us that while the glitch rates in the X and Y arms both increase after the O2 commissioning break, the glitch rate in the Y arm drops again while we were preparing for O3.  The mean glitch rate in the Y arm since the start of preparation for O3 has been 0.847g/s.  However, the mean glitch rate in X since the start of preparations for O3 is 1.767g/s; almost as bad as in O2.   

I have indicated the time when the fiber was re-buried, and this doesn't seem to have effected the glitch rates.  I have also indicated the time at which the MSR work in alog 36645 was done (June 5th, 2017).  This was when Richard put a big yellow tubing around the fiber to protect it from a flapping tag and a fan that was blowing near it.  This also does not seem to have improved the glitch rates.
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