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huyen.pham@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:59, Friday 14 August 2026 (91532)
Continue CRS commissioning and testing with different ISI configs

[Jim W., Shoshana A., Michael R., Huyen P.]

0. Since HAM3 ISI has been updated with new CPS sensors (with fine vertical CPS), Jim updated new symetrization filters for the actuators using the ISI commissioning scripts.

1. We have been testing CRS in/out of loop looking at IMC length (mostly during night time with IMC locked at 2W). The wind condition has been relatively quite so far for these tests. We can repeat in higher wind (ground tilt) condition.

Time HAM2 blend X HAM3 blend X HAM3 blend RY CPS diff config Results

08/10

figure1

250mHz 

250mHz 

'many notches' - CRS out of loop

30mHz - CRS in loop

 following BSC2

CRS in-loop improved ISI RY down to GS13 noise

Not much improvement in ISI X

MCL see minimal improvement  below 0.4Hz

08/11

figure2

250mHz

250mHz

102mHz

'many notches' - CRS out of loop

30mHz - CRS in loop

following BSC2

CRS in loop + 102mHz blend X -  see improvement in X

Know that this is mainly from blend push, not CRS

MCL see x3 improvement below  0.4Hz

08/12

figure3

250mHz 102mHz

many notches' - CRS out of loop

30mHz - CRS in loop

following BSC2

Testing CRS effect on cavity length motion.

Confirm that the improvement in ISI X and MCL saw

in thelast test mainly coming from blend push.

08/13

figure4

102mHz 102mHz 30mHz - CRS in loop

no CPS diff

Following BSC2

HAM23 CPS diff

HAM23 CPS diff or BSC2 BSC diff improve upto x4

below 0.1Hz

    We will try lower blend, e.g. 45mHz.

2. With CRS out of loop, we compared tilt spectra for CPS, GS13, and CRS. Without the proper capacitive damping, the OFFLINE/DAMPED stage rings up the CRS, making low frequency signal worse. Under ISOLATED state, the CRS can be damped, and CRS matches GS13 between 0.2Hz - 1 Hz. This test has been done at MIT, see alog 12136.

3. I also did make a different set of GS13 vertical symmetrization filters using global Z comb drive scripts from Brian, see last figure. The filter file is living under /ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/Common/Documents/T2300404_HAM_symmetrization/ham3_fine_cps_and_crs/. We will test this later.

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