Reports until 19:10, Saturday 16 March 2024
H1 ISC
gabriele.vajente@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:10, Saturday 16 March 2024 - last comment - 19:41, Saturday 16 March 2024(76461)
Alignment tests trying to reduce jitter noise

I started injecting jitter lines in the periscope PZT: pitch at 215 Hz, amplitude 20, yaw 135 amplitude 10, in H1:IMC-PZT_PIT and H1:IMC-PZT_YAW. The yaw line is very well visible in DARM, the pitch line is much smaller. This is as expected, since yaw is the main jitter that couples.

I tried to move the AS_C YAW offset to move the SRC, without any change in the jitter line amplitude, with offsets as large as 0.2.

I then tried to move the OMC alignment. It looks like there is little effect on yaw, but some effect on pitch. Bummer. More on a later alog with a full OMC alignment change.

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gabriele.vajente@LIGO.ORG - 19:41, Saturday 16 March 2024 (76464)

Actually both PIT and YAW see coherence with DARM, so maybe this is worth some more thinking. The PZT injection is very visible in yaw, but not much in pitch