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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:20, Wednesday 30 August 2023 - last comment - 13:31, Wednesday 13 September 2023(72572)
MICH FF Retuned

Elenna, Gabriele, Camilla 

This afternoon we updated the MICH Feedforward, it is now back to around the level it was last Friday, comparison attached. Last done in 72430. Maybe need to be done so soon because of the 72497 alignment changes on Friday.

The code for excitations and analysis has been moved to /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/lsc/h1/scripts/feedforward/

Elenna updated in guardian to engage FM1 rather than FM9 and sdf accepted. New filter attached. I forgot the accept this in h1lsc safe.snap and will ask the operators to accept MICHFF FM1 when we loose lock or come out of observe(72431), tagging OpsInfo.

Attached is a README file with instructions.

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thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - 15:13, Thursday 31 August 2023 (72605)

Accepted FM1 in the LSC safe.snap

jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 13:31, Wednesday 13 September 2023 (72865)CAL, DetChar
Calling out a line from the above README instructions that Jenne pointed me to that confirms my suspicions that the *reason* the bad FF filter's high Q feature showed up at 102.128888 Hz, right next to the 102.13 Hz calibration line:
    "IFO in Commissioning mode with Calibration Lines off (to avoid artifacts like in alog#72537)."

in other words -- go to NLN_CAL_MEAS to turn off all calibration lines before taking active measurements that inform any LSC feed forward filter design.

Elenna says the same thing -- quoting the paragraph from LHO:72537 later added in edit:

How can we avoid this problem in the future? This feature is likely an artifact of running the injection to measure the feedforward with the calibration lines on, so a spurious feature right at the calibration line appeared in the fit. Since it is so narrow, it required incredibly fine resolution to see it in the plot. For example, Gabriele and I had to bode plot in foton from 100 to 105 Hz with 10000 points to see the feature. However, this feature is incredibly evident just by inspecting the zpk of the filter, especially if you use the "mag/Q" of foton and look for the poles and zeros with a Q of 3e5 (!!). If we ensure to both run the feedforward injection with cal lines off and/or do a better job of checking our work after we produce a fit, we can avoid this problem.
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