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aiello, nardecchia, casanueva - 16:50 Thursday 23 May 2019 (45945) Print this report
ITF working point tuning

The today shift was devoted to the tuning of the ITF working point.

We performed the following steps:
- 6.59 UTC: WI DAS OUT power increased. The optical gain increased but the sidebands slightly decreased;
- 7.57 UTC: Julia closed the BS control in full bandwidth;
- 8.15 UTC: WI DAS OUT power increased. The optical gain further increased up to 2070e-6 but, on the contrary, both sidebands and dark fringe became worse;
- 9.38 UTC: WI DAS IN power decreased. Optical gain stable, sidebands slightly increased;
- 11.05 UTC: NI DAS IN power decreased. Improvements in sideband level, dark fringe and sensitivity. No change in the optical gain;
- 12.01 UTC: ITF unlocked. After relock the sidebands level and the optical gain resulted to be lower for not clear reasons;
- 13.20 UTC: NI DAS IN power further decreased. 

Preliminary conclusions:
- WI DAS OUT increases (in some way) the optical gain, while WI DAS IN and NI DAS IN seem to not contribute to it;
- increasing the optical gain, we did not see any improvements in the ITF working point (brighter dark fringe, lower sidebands, no sensitivity improvement);
- by decreasing at the same time WI DAS IN and NI DAS IN the sidebands and the dark fringe improved

It is not clear why after the ITF unlock the working point of the detector changed a lot, despite of the thermal transient induced by the TCS already reached the steady state. The main changes regarded the offset of the BS TX and PR TX.

We are not able in this ITF working point to reach again the 45 Mpc, despite of the sidebands level is the same, the optical gain is higer and the dark fringe is low as before the TCS tuning. Moreover the BS is now engaged in full bandwidth. 

Julia saved the new offeset in Metatron.

In conclusion, we left the ITF in the following conditions:
- BS closed in full bandwidth;
- P WI DAS IN = 80 mW; P WI DAS OUT= 300 mW;
- P NI DAS IN =310 mW; P NI DAS OUT=2.3 W.

We will monitor the ITF behaviour in the next hours in order to acquire some data and to understand if to leave it in this configuration or restore the previous one (P WI IN=120 mW,  P WI OUT=30 mW, P NI IN=600 mW, P NI OUT=2.3 W).

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direnzo, casanueva, romero - 10:34 Friday 24 May 2019 (45953) Print this report

Figure 1: As a consequence of moving the Beam Splitter from Drift Control (V1:SAT_BS_AATX = 1) to Full Bandwidth (V1:SAT_BS_AATX = 2), between 8 AM and 5 PM of May 23 there seems to be a reduction in the amount of glitches clustered around 150 Hz: refer to Figure 2 and Figure 3 with the Omicron glitchgram of V1:LSC_DARM and V1:Hrec_hoft_16384Hz.

In Figure 4 and Figure 5 the Amplitude Spectral Densities of V1:LSC_DARM and V1:Hrec_hoft_16384Hz are plotted at two different times (blue: Full Bandwidth, purple: Drift Control) around the 150 Hz line and at low frequency. A noise reduction is visible in Full Bandwidth in the band around 150 Hz, together with the growth of a small bump at 158 Hz (most noticeable in LSC_DARM). At lower frequency, and as expected, a small increase in the LSC_DARM noise is visible with the BS in Full Bandwidth.

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direnzo - 14:41 Friday 24 May 2019 (45958) Print this report

Related to the previous comment, in the attached plot the BLRMS of V1:Hrec_hoft_16384Hz in band [145,155] Hz along with the Bs control flag channels V1:SAT_BS_AATX_FLAG and V1:SAT_BS_AATY_FLAG. This shows a reduction of the energy (and therefore the number of glithces) in band during the interval when the BS was in Full Bandwidth control (V1:SAT_BS_*_FLAG = 2).

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