There are several calibration lines whose injection amplitudes are set to give a signal-to-noise ratio of 100 for a 10-second integration time. Thus in typical strain noise spectra, made with a frequency resolution of order 0.1 Hz, these calibration lines show up about 100x above the noise floor. I have been concerned whether there is any non-linear noise conversion with the calibration lines at these amplitudes. Certainly we see upconversion around the test mass bounce and roll modes when they are at a high amplitude. Any egregious upconversion would have been flagged before, but it wasn't clear whether smaller effects had been ruled out before.

To test this, a few days ago the calibration folks made a controlled test where the calibration lines were turned off and then on, while everything else in the interferometer remained (nominally) the same. These times are:

• 		Sep-11-2015 1:45:25 UTC, calibration lines turned off, no excitations, fully locked at NOMINAL_LOWNOISE

• 		Sep-11-2015 1:59:06 UTC, calibration lines turned back on

• 		Sep-11-2015 2:50:03 UTC, unlocked

I made 0.05 Hz-resolution spectra of H1:CAL-DELTAL_EXTERNAL_DQ during these times; see the attached plots. I see no signs of any upconversion around the calibration lines in the 35-38 Hz band, nor the one near 332 Hz. I also looked around the first harmonics of the 35-38 Hz lines; there is no sign of twice the frequency of any of these lines showing up. So the calibration line amplitudes look ok from this standpoint. (Comment: I thought all 3 lines in the 35-38 Hz band were to have a high amplitude -- SNR ~ 100 -- but the 37.3 Hz line is smaller by a large factor.)

First figure: zoom around the 331.9 Hz line

Second figure: zoom around the 35-38 Hz band (upper) and twice that frequency (lower)

Note: the FFTs were performed with a Hanning window; the strong calibration lines in these spectra display the spectral leakage associated with the windowing/finite time series

Andy, Laura, Dr. Dan Hoak

Something went wrong with the Pcal Y. It's not clear right now whether these were causing the glitches in ETMY, or whether there's a more general electrical failure at EY. The Beckhoff seems to have failed at 5:45 UTC (alog). At that time, we see the PCAL Y lines suddenly disappear, and this is obvious in DARM (first plot) as well as the PCAL Y photodiodes (plots 2 and 3). There are bursts of noise in the TX channel seen by the summary page spectrogram (plot 4), but shorter spectrograms of TX and RX don't show anything at times when we know DARM was glitching (plots 5 and 6). We'll continue to investigate.

16:45 UTC Sheila, Filiberto, Vern, Nutsinee to end Y to investigate problem with Beckhoff. Looks like some of the channels froze around 09/15 5:45 UTC. May be coincident with start of 2 Hz comb in spectrum.

Attached are 2 minutes of full data time series of the two ISI stages CPSs.  Nothing 2hzish looking here.  I zoomed in as well.

Also attached are 0.01hz bw spectra of the CPSs.  Reference traces are from ~0400utc, before the comb started.  Current traces are from 1200utc about 0500 local.  There are some spikes around 2 hz but that are barely above the background and not only in the current traces.  These don't look to be the source of this comb.

15:25 UTC Out of observing
15:34 UTC Fred R., David N., John W., Bubba G., Albert L., Peter K. to LVEA for safety audit
15:41 UTC LVEA camera shows group entering LVEA
16:25 UTC Group out of LVEA, going to end X
16:40 UTC Group entering end X
17:00 UTC Group leaving end X, going to end Y
17:26 UTC Group going into end Y
17:47 UTC Group out of end Y, coming back to corner station

STATE Of H1: Observing
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
QUICK SUMMARY: Comb in spectrum up to ~ 100 Hz. Range around 56 MPc. Lights on in LVEA. Lights appear off at mid and end stations. Lights appear off in PSL enclosure. Winds are around 5 mph. 0.03 - .1 Hz seismic is around 10^-2. 0.1 - 0.3 Hz seismic has been slowly increasing.

• Title: 09/15 OWL Shift: 7:00-15:00UTC (00:00-8:00PDT), all times posted in UTC
  

• State of H1: Observation Mode at 60 Mpc for the past 9 hours. The range has been dropping slowly. 
  

• Support: I called Jenne about the 2Hz comb. Thomas Abbott was helping me with the comb hunting.
  

• Shift Summary: Besides the nasty looking 2Hz comb up to 100Hz, seismic activity was minimal. Wind speed <=10mph. The 2Hz comb shows up on EY SUSRACK magnetometer, ETMY top stage F1, F2, and SD, OMC DCPD, and ETMY ISI ST2 GS13.

• Incoming Operator: Patrick

• Activity Log:

• 12:00 UTC Christina and Karen on site.

• 15:00 Handing off to Patrick

•  

There's an increase in seismic activity at 0.1-0.3 Hz band. Wind speed ~10 mph. The 2Hz comb is still present. Thomas Abbott has been helping me figuring out where it could have come from (alog21528)

Note: while investigating the 2Hz glitches we noticed 1Hz glitches at EX seirack magnetometer.

This 2 Hz comb is actually glitches every half a second. It seems like the period is not exactly half a second. They appear in DARM but not MICH, SRCL, or PRCL, so it's probably not a bad PR or SR mirror driver.

Attached are a few Omega scans. The first is several seconds long and shows that these are very short and span about 40 to 100 Hz. The next three Omega scans are 4 seconds apart, showing that these don't sit right on the integer second and have a period that is not quite 0.5 seconds.

• Title: 09/15 OWL Shift: 7:00-15:00UTC (00:00-8:00PDT), all times posted in UTC
  

• State of H1: Observation Mode at 60Mpc for the last 2.5 hrs. Was at 70 Mpc before.
  

• Outgoing Operator: Ed M.
  

• Quick Summary: The 2Hz comb appeared on DARM 2.5 hours ago for no apparent reason. It shows up on EY SUS rack magnetometer. I called Jenne and she suggested I leave it there since the ifo is still locked. The light in the LVEA is on. No one else is on site. Wind speed below 10 mph. No seismic activity.

TITLE:  Sep 14 EVE Shift 23:00-07:00UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

SUPPORT: Jenne Driggers was called about comb oscillation in DARM

INCOMING OPERATOR: Nutsinee

05:50 a 2Hz comb appeared in DARM from ~20Hz to ~100Hz (as far as I can tell as it gets lost in the bucket)) which resulted in a drop in range to ~63Mpc. I placed a call to Jenne who was on call to inquire as to how I should proceed and the advice was as long as were locked, stay locked. So, we're still locked and Observing at 63Mpc.

C. Cahillane

I have made a file in /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER8/H1/Scripts/compare_actcoeffs_ER8_craig_extrapolation.m
The purpose of this file is to find the frequency dependence of our uncertainty in A_pu and A_tst.  It takes our three measurements from August 26, 28, and 29 and finds their weighted means and weighted standard deviations at all frequencies.  (Thank you Jeff, Kiwamu, and Darkhan for the code infrastructure.)

I have used the Pcal measurements only for our uncertainty calculations since it is has the lowest uncertainty and is the main method of calibrating our actuators.  Free Swinging Mich and ALSDIFF are used to determine the accuracy of Pcal, and Pcal is relatively very precise.
Our measurements go from 3 Hz to 100 Hz, but I need uncertainty from 3 Hz to 5000 Hz, so I am currently using a Zeroth Order Extrapolation, which is basically where I take our final uncertainty value at 100 Hz and let that be our uncertainty value for all data points from 100 Hz to 5000 Hz.  
It is expected that the actuation term will fall off quickly after 100 Hz and this will be sufficient for our first-order result.  If actuation is the main contribution to uncertainty more intelligent steps must be taken to ensure we aren't underestimating our uncertainty.

I will do the same tomorrow with the sensing function residual C_r, probably using Zeroth Order Extrapolation down to low frequency in this case.

Plot 1, 2, and 3 represent our UIM, PUM, and TST actuation stages.  For now I will fold systematic error and statistical uncertainty together, i.e. if we have an |A_tst| std of 0.5 m/ct and a systematic residual of 3%, I will make our total uncertainty be 0.5^2 + ( 0.03 * |A_tst| )^2.