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Detector Characterisation (Glitches)
direnzo - 21:40 Sunday 21 January 2024 (63042) Print this report
25-minute glitches found correlated with some Angular Control channels related to the SR

I've continued the analysis of the dataset of the omicron triggers for the annoying 25-minute glitches during the days of the mini-Engineering run. Differently to what I've done in logbook entry #62965, this time I've tried a brute force correlation of the glitches time series with all the "V1:*_mean", "V1:*_rms", "V1:*_TE*" channels in the trend frame (20,586 total). The glitches time series has been constructed as a " train of Dirac's delta," with a value of 1 at the GPS times corresponding to each glitch trigger, and zero otherwise. Regarding the the auxiliary channels, in addition to their time series, I've also considered the absolute value of their derivatives (one-point difference), and second derivatives. The latter transformations are meant to convert those channels that behave like square waves or sawtooth waves into trains of deltas.

Among all the above, the only channels found correlated are those of the family: V1:ASC_SR_{TX,TY}_DCP_{phi,mag}_B1_*. The fact that they are correlated may mean that they are simply witnessing or reacting to the glitches, without telling anything new about their presence.  However, they don't list among the BruCo excluded channels: /data/dev/detchar/online/bruco/share/virgo_excluded_channels_Hrec_hoft.txt.

I leave the floor to the expert to comment on this result.

Attached, the plots of some of these channels (blue) together with the glitches time series (orange). The time range is a zoom-in of the days of the 24 and 25 December just to better observe their correlations.

 

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salvador - 9:18 Monday 22 January 2024 (63045) Print this report

Adding to the study of Francesco, these channels, which also pop-out in the coherent channel study, did not qualify as unsafe for the previous safety channel study using O3b data (channel list).

More precisely, here is the list obtained in the coherent study:

  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_SRCL_I_FS_mean
  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_SRCL_I_10Hz_mean
  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_DCP_phi_B1_mag_10Hz_FS_mean
  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_DCP_mag_B1_Q_10Hz_mean
  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_DCP_mag_B1_Q_FS_mean
  • V1:ASC_SR_TX_DCP_mag_B1_mag_10Hz_FS_mean
mwas - 10:49 Monday 22 January 2024 (63047) Print this report

These channels did not exist for O3, the SR mirror was not installed. They have a high chance of being unsafe, they are based on the main differential arm length DC read-out photodiodes (B1), so the same channel that serves as the starting point for having h(t). The channels are just B1 demodulated at ~491Hz (DARM line) and then at 4-5Hz (SR angular dither lines in TX/TY). One would need to do a safety study to check if this double demodulation is sufficient to render these channels safe. But without a study I would assume by default that they are not safe. Or at least I expect that whenever there is a glitch that covers the 480Hz-500Hz band, there will be a glitch in these V1:ASC_SR_{TX,TY}_DCP_{phi,mag}_B1_* channels too.

direnzo - 12:05 Monday 22 January 2024 (63049) Print this report

It is likely that the maximum frequency of these 25-minute glitches doesn't arrive as high as 490 Hz. In the attached histogram, I've plotted the maximum frequencies of all the omicron triggers (not the clusters) with GPS time within one second around the central time of each of the 25-minute glitches. I'm tempted to conclude that there is not much energy above ~400 Hz related to these glitches. Which of course is not an argument to claim that the identified channels are "" safe.

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viret - 16:42 Monday 22 January 2024 (63054) Print this report
I looked at those variables in the full raw data stored on hpss, and got the impression that the peak is usually few seconds after the omicron trigger (so this would be a consequence more than a cause). Below are few examples of channel amplitudes close to the peaks recorded at 1982s and 3359s.
The trend plots are averaging the info over which timescale? Do you observe also this delay?
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viret - 14:44 Tuesday 23 January 2024 (63064) Print this report
I looked a bit more closely at V1:ASC_SR_T(X,Y)_DCP_mag_B1_I_10Hz channels, which seems to be the one with the largest correlation.
Below is the evolution of those channels around the 3 first 25min glitches candidates provided in Francesco's list.

Plots are done with full raw data, these are not trend plots. The effect looks pretty long, and starts ~1s after the glitch.

I haven't found those channels in the database, what kind of info are they supposed to provide? What does DCP stand for?
Nota: pdf file has a better resolution...

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