While looking at lock acquisition I have noticed today a new family of glitches that have not been happening before Monday.
Figure 1 shows a few of those glitches today, they are extremely loud so they are visible directly in the B1 DC time series. They cause saturation of the B1 photodiodes and often kicks in the SDB1 alignment that are caused by these B1 photodiode saturations. The spacing looks very regular, with one glitch every 15 minutes.
Figure 2 these glitches happen in multiple locks, and might be causing lock losses.
Figure 3 looking at the timing of the lock losses, it appears roughly at the time of when the next 15 minute glitch should occur
Figure 4 these glitches have a shape of an oscilation at ~1.3Hz
These glitches will be a problem to keep the interferometer locked. I wonder if they are in addition to the 25 minute glitches, or if the 25 minute glitches have been replaced by a much louder and more frequent version.