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Status of MNFTmon

Status of MNFTmon. Soma Mukherjee + , Roberto Grosso* + University of Texas at Brownsville * University of Nuernberg, Germany LSC Detector Characterization Session August 16 2005. What does this monitor do ?.

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Status of MNFTmon

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  1. Status of MNFTmon Soma Mukherjee+ , Roberto Grosso* + University of Texas at Brownsville * University of Nuernberg, Germany LSC Detector Characterization Session August 16 2005 LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  2. What does this monitor do ? The monitor tracks variation or drifts (i.e. changes in the statistical characteristics) in the noise floor (i.e. component of interferometric data that is left behind after subtraction of lines and sharp transients). This monitor is based on the ‘Median based noise floor tracker’ algorithm that has been presented earlier in LSC meetings. A paper has been published earlier in CQG . (ref : Median based noise floor tracker (MNFT) : robust estimation of noise floor drifts in interferometric data, CQG, 20, 925-936 2003). LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  3. Low pass and resample Estimate spectral noise floor using Running Median Design FIR Whitening filter. Whiten data. Thresholds set by simulation using Gaussian white noise. Compute Running Median of the squared timeseries. Clean lines. (Optional Highpass). The chain of operations : LIGO-G050428-00-Z

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  5. Comments on the Code • The monitor • uses the complete DMT and root framework. • uses fftw-3.0.1 • consists of a main class called NoiseFloorMonitor which is derived • from the DatEnv, MonServer classes of the DMT and a set of classes • and functions which are packed into a library which is called waves. • This class carries out the following operations : • FIR filtering, non-linear filtering, FFT and convolution, psd, statistics • (normally distributed random number generation). • The output is viewed online as a timeseries, updated every 60 seconds . LIGO-G050428-00-Z

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  7. Status • The authors successfully tested the implementation of the code and online viewing • of output at LLO last week. • e2e testing done. • Command line option to run the monitor with online data : • NoiseFloorMon –param parameter_file –freq frequency_file • parameter_file contains the configuration parameters • frequency_file contains frequency and bandwidth information of the lines to be • removed. • The present version runs on full band (0-4096 Hz). • 60 seconds time strides used. • Running Median uses a block length of 4 s. LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  8. However … • It is more interesting to see the trends in a band limited way – • for example, • 0-20 Hz, 20-100 Hz, 100-200 Hz and 200-4096 Hz. • This part of the code to be tested in the coming weeks. • The authors intend to work at the site next month again to test the • final version of the band limited monitor before freezing the code • before S5. LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  9. Goals • To run the monitor continuously during S5. • To flag sections of locked data stretches that show significant • deviation i.e. venture out of the 3s threshold. • To recognize patterned behaviour in the monitor output, if any. • To keep working on the development of a figure of merit for • astrophysical searches based on the output of the monitor. LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  10. Figure of Meritunder development SNR for any signal (say, a 1.4 1.4 solar mass binary inspiral, or sine- Gaussian etc. ) using matched filter can be calculated first using a Gaussian stationary noise. The output of the monitor can be accurately modeled using ARMA models (ref : Mukherjee, S., Interferometric data modeling : Issues in realistic data generation, CQG, 21, 1783-1794, 2004). SNR for the same signal can now be calculated using a sufficiently long realization of the modeled noise. The deviation ratio can be plotted at each instant of time as a FOM to indicate the sensitivity of the searches. LIGO-G050428-00-Z

  11. Focus for S5 To have the monitor running through entire S5 and analyze the pattern of non-stationarity in S5 data. LIGO-G050428-00-Z

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