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YuhangZhao - 15:14, Thursday 13 May 2021 (2494)
Comment to TAMA suspension angular drift investigation (Click here to view original report: 2493)

Marc and Yuhang

We have also checked one week data (from 2021/04/25/3pm to 2021/05/01/3pm)

We made two plots, the first plot includes all the data in this week. But the second plot excluded the last part of the data. This is because an earthquake might happen around the end of the one week data. This makes we see a peak in the first plot. 

To compare different mirrors angular drift, we calculated RMS value of data and summarized them as the attached table. [unit: urad]

 

PR pit

PR yaw

BS pit

BS yaw

INPUT pit

INPUT yaw

END pit

END yaw

angular drift RMS 

(including earthquake)

59

4.5

14.35

8.85

31.24

15.81

9.81

2.86

angular drift RMS     earthquake excluded

62.46

3.98

10.39

9.07

29.42

15.49

9.08

2.66

From this table, we see PR pitch moved the most. But INPUT pitch also moved a lot. However, END pitch didn't move as large as PR and INPUT pitch. Since PR, INPUT and END have the same configuration, their difference in pitch drift indicates that this is not a design problem.

We know that temperature change influences mirrors drift. But PR, BS, and INPUT are all in the TAMA central room, they should have the same temperature change. But they didn't show the same drift. Form the airconditioner location, PR chamber is almost facing an air conditioner, which may cause temperature related problem. To confirm this is not the fault of air conditioner, we plan to switch off it for one or two days during weekends to check.

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