I agree, I think the PRC excess angular motion, PIT in particular, is a dominant contributor to the RIN. Attachments #1-#3 support this hypothesis. In these plots, "XARM" should really read "COMM" and "YARM" should really read "DIFF", because the error signals from the two end QPDs are mixed to generate the PIT and YAW error signals for these ASC servos - this is some channel renaming that will have to be done on the ASC model. The fact that the scatter plot between these DoFs has some ellipticity probably means the basis transformation isn't exactly right, because if they were truly orthogonal, we would expect them to be uncorrelated?

• In the corner plots, I am plotting the error signals of the ASC servos and the arm transmission. POP feedback is not engaged, but some feedback control to the ETMs based on the QPD signals is engaged.
• In the coherence plot, I show the coherence of the ASC error signals with the POP and TR QPD based error signals, under the same conditions. The coherence is high out to ~20 Hz.

I guess what this means is that the stability of the lock could be improved by turning on some POP QPD based feedback control, I'll give it a shot.