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oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:59, Monday 22 September 2025 - last comment - 16:48, Monday 22 September 2025(87060)
ETMY Roll Mode rang up, found new settings

Elenna, Jeff, Oli

After Elenna updated the DHARD phasing (87063), the ETMY roll mode started ringing up. The previous settings we had on it were +30 deg and G = 40. We started testing out different settings to try and damp it, and along the way we changed a few other things.

First, we plotted ASC-AS_{A,B}_RF45_Q_{PIT,YAW} and found that AS 45Q WFS B YAW sees this roll mode better than WFS A YAW, which is what we had it on before, so we swapped to using that sensor in the AS WFS selector on the bounce and roll monitor screen and that has been accepted into sdf.

Then, we saw that the current Bounce & Roll filter in ETMY_L2_LOCK_{P,Y}, EvanBR (FM3), wasn't notching out the ISC control signal as much as we would like, so Elenna and Jeff created a new filter, OliBR (FM1), that filters out more of the control noise to a magnitude better than EvanBR. Here's the magnitude and phase difference between the two - where blue is EvanBR and red is OliBR. The cursor on the magnitude plot is at the frequency that this mode is at, 13.75977 Hz. Note that the phase plot shows different x limits on the frequency, as we wanted to show that we don't lose a lot of phase margin between the old and new filters. We loaded this new filter in for ETMY L2 LOCK P and Y, and swapped over to using this filter module instead of FM3. These changes have been accepted in sdf.

Finally, after lots of testing and installing this new filter, we were able to find damping settings that are working to damp ETMY. The new settings we found that worked to damp ETMY (slowly) is +60 deg, G = -45. We have been able to bump up the gain to G = -100 for a few minutes at a time to get a lot of damping for ETMY, although it also rings up ETMX a bit every time, so we are going between G = -45 and G = -100 to minimize that. We also unmonitored in OBSERVING ETMY_M0_DARM_DAMP_R and ETMY_M0_DARM_DAMP_R_GAIN in order to continue being able to work on damping while in Observing.

 

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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - 14:09, Monday 22 September 2025 (87065)

Here are some safe SDFs. We got permission of Jenne to briefly step out of observing to load the guardian and update safe SDFs so there were no issues later on.

ISC_LOCK guardian sets the tramp and gain of the ETMY roll mode damping. The guardian will now ramp the gain to -45.

SDF safe will set the ETMY roll mode damping filters to FMs 1,3,4,8. It will also set the L2 lock filter to FM1 instead of FM3 for the new bounce/roll bandstop.

The outmatrix for the roll mode is now set to AS B, so that is SDFed in safe.

I also SDFed the AS WFS phases in safe because I forgot to do them before (it was previously done in observe).

We left channels monitored in SAFE, because we want SDF revert to put in these settings, but unmonitored the gains and filters in observe so we can adjust things during observing if we find better settings.

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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - 16:48, Monday 22 September 2025 (87073)

We have decided to revert the AS WFS phasing, which means we have reverted all of these changes.

REVERTED:

  • AS WFS phasing
  • outmatrix for damping is back to AS A
  • the damping is back to +30 deg phase, gain 40
  • guardian updated and loaded
  • remonitored gain and filter channel
  • everything SDFed in safe and observe

NOT REVERTED:

  • ETMY bounce/roll filter "aka OliBR" is still in place.
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