[Rana, Jenne]
9. Arm cavity alignment. Significant DC effect.
* When the alignment of one of the arm cavity mirrors is changed, the DC value of the beatnote signal changes.
* ITMX moved in yaw, we see a 7kHz/15urad DC shift in the BEATX_FINE_PHASE_OUT_HZ time series.
* ETMX moved in yaw, we see an 8kHz/5.5urad DC shift in the time series. We aren't sure why this is about a factor of 3 times larger effect (same shift for smaller misalignment) than the ITM.
* We want to do a Yuta-style analysis to see what the angle to length coupling looks like, so that we can measure the angular motion of our cavity mirrors and put the expected noise into our ALS noise budget. Perhaps this will help us understand the low frequency difference between our in-loop beatnote error signal and our in-loop PDH error signals (red vs. maroon on the ALS noise budget posted above Pianosa).
* I've asked Manasa to take some transfer functions in the morning, so that we can start to have an idea of what is going on with this.
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