There seem to be two new rf oddities that appeared after maintenance today:
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AS90 seems to jump back and forth between two different offsets, maybe about once every hour or so.
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POP90 and AS90 both show irregular low-frequency motion, similar to what we see when an in-loop OSEM (or its sensing chain) goes bad. Ease of locking doesn't really seem to be affected, unlike the previous experience with bad OSEM electronics.
Nothing immediately obvious from either the PR or SR bottom-stage OSEMs during this time. Ditto the BS and ITM oplevs.
Nothing immediately obvious from distribution amp monitors or LO monitors.
A bit more methodically now: all the OSEM readbacks for DRMI optics, including the IMC mirrors and the input mirrors. No obvious correlation with POP90 fluctuations.
I am tagging detchar in this post. Betsy and I spent some more time looking at sus electronics channels, but nothing jumped out as problematic. (Although I attach the fast current monitors for the beamsplitter penultimate stage: UR looks like it has many fast glitches. I have not looked systematically at other current or voltage monitors on the suspensions.)
Most likely, noise hunting cannot continue until this problem is fixed.
We would greatly appreciate some help from detchar in identifying which sus electronics channels (if any) are suspect.
In this case, data during any of the ISC_LOCK guardian states 101 through 104 is good to look at (these correspond to DRMI locking with arms off resonance). Higher-numbered guardian states will also show this POP90 problem. This problem only started after Tuesday afternoon local time.
I said above that nothing can be seen in the osems, but that is based only on second-trends of the time series. Perhaps something will be revealed in spectrograms, as when we went through this exercise several months before.