I think that this happens when the beam gets too close to the edge of the QPD. We see this regularly in the ETMs, if they've been kicked a bit, but not enough to trip the watchdogs. I think it might be the step/impulse response of the RES3.3 filter, which rings for almost 20 seconds.
Anyhow, I've just recentered the BS oplev. It was at -21urad in pitch, and had more than 400 counts on the top two quadrants, but only about 100 counts on the bottom two. Now it's around 300 counts on all 4 quadrants.
As a totally unrelated aside, I have installed texlive on Donatella, so that I could run pdflatex. |