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Experiments on Noise Analysis. Need of noise characterization for Monitoring the instrument behavior Provide an estimate of the noise level Detect deviations from the gaussianity or stationarity Plan of the seminar: three examples Classical spectral estimation, based on multi-tapers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Experiments on Noise Analysis Need of noise characterization for
Monitoring the instrument behaviorProvide an estimate of the noise levelDetect deviations from the gaussianity or stationarity
Plan of the seminar: three examplesClassical spectral estimation, based on multi-tapersModern spectral estimation, based on AR modelsKharounen-Loeve expansion
All the methods have been tested using LIGO 40m data
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Multi-tapering in one slide Purpose: control both
bias and variance of a spectral estimate, over a finite sample.
Perform several spectral estimates with different windows, and average.
Choose the windows so as to be “orthogonal”, at fixed frequency resolution.
Use the so called Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Sequences
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
A typical noise spectrum (LIGO 40m) Wideband
Narrow spectral features Physical resonances Harmonics of the line
Need to monitor the spectrum over time.
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Comparison of spectral estimates (1) The Hamming
window gives the best resolution.
Lower variance from the multi-taper estimate
Better choice: adapt the coefficients of the different tapers.
Warning: this is actually an harmonic of the 60 Hz line!
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Comparison of spectral estimates (2) The use of several
different windows is possible only reducing the frequency resolution: NumTapers <= N
The f.r. is necessarily more limited, as at the 300 Hz line.
Adapting the tapers helps off-resonance.
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Modern spectral estimates Model the noise as
gaussian noise filtered through a linear model.
Estimate the model parameters.
Choose the model order on the basis of the final prediction error.
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Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Low order models The FPE criterion is not
robust enough: it is not sensitive to the narrow spectral features.
The suggested order is definitely too small.
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Higher order models Increasing the order the
narrow features are resolved.
Monitoring the values of the coefficients, that is the zeros (and poles, for ARMA models) one can detect non-stationarities.
But: some of the lines are actually discrete components of the spectrum.
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Karhounen-Loeve basis Spectral estimates rely on
the statistical independence of the different lines
The KL basis gives statistically independent coefficients also over short samples.
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Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Eigenvalues and RMS noise The basis elements are
the eigenvectors of the correlation matrix R.
The eigenvalues measure how each component contributes to the RMS noise.
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Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
KL as a selector of spectral features Each KL element
actually corresponds to some spectral feature.
They are ordered on the basis of the relative RMS “importance.”
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Coefficient monitoring (1) Pairs of KL basis
elements correspond to the same eigenvalue
Coefficients estimated from different samples are uncorrelated and gaussianly distributed.
In other languages they correspond to the Principal Components of the noise spectrum
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Coefficient monitoring (2) Elements of the discrete
part of the spectrum (infinitely narrow lines) appear much differently
In a scatter plot they manifest perfect correlation, and their relative fase remains correlated in time.
Without surprise, this component corresponds to an harmonic of the line.
Experiments on Noise Characterization Roma, March 10,1999Andrea Viceré
Coefficient monitoring (3) Deviations from
the predicted model may signal a change of noise level in the specific component.
In the specific example, the damping out of a resonance possibly excited by the lock acquisition.