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joshua.smith@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:31, Thursday 29 June 2023 (70950)
Investigating n*13Hz noise bumps

In 70768 Peter noted noise bumps separated by 13Hz (26, 39, 52Hz). Fig 1 is a reproduced version of Peter’s plot. Elenna followed up with plots of suspensions with modes around 13Hz. This is a follow up of both of those things, but with no cause identified. 

The 52 Hz bumps are visible in the 24-hour spectrograms on the summary pages. The one that stands out most clearly is the 52Hz bump (The 3rd harmonic, 52Hz/4=13Hz). Fig 2 shows a 51-53Hz BLRMS of STRAIN overlaid with one of the 24 spectrograms, just showing that the BLRMS and the spectrogram roughly agree (ignore the blue trace).

The 52Hz bump changes width over time, which complicates searching for correlation with BLRMS. Fig 3 shows that high BLRMS times are large and broad bump, but low BLRMS time can be low bump or tall skinny bump.

Using gwdetchar-lasso-correlation we can search all LHO channels for correlations with this 51-53Hz BLRMS. A summary of 52Hz bump lasso pages is below. ITMY/X/BS SUS/ISI channels seem somehow related as they show up multiple times (but not every time). On any given page there are other (random? such as VID CAM26 WY or Humidity) channels which look plausibly related but don’t show up on any other days. Maybe you will find clues that jump out but I only see some weak evidence. I think the correlation might be fooled by the bump height/width degeneracy in the BLRMS mentioned above.

Figures 4-8 are some of the more convincing correlated channels on the various days.

Finally, given the apparent 13Hz base frequency, I had a look at various suspensions (guided by some links from Arnaud). There is strong 13Hz in ITMX, ITMY, BS HPI (Arnaud mentioned the arm cavity baffles hang directly from HEPI). But the BLRMS of the 13Hz band seems pretty stable and doesn’t match the BLRMS of the 52Hz bump, Fig 9.

So likely the resonances are more or less stable and if they are the driver of the n*13Hz bumps, the coupling is modulated by something, such as alignment.

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