Glitches associated with phone accidentally left plugged in at LHO
Hi GSpy users,
At LIGO Hanford we recently discovered that some of the telephones in the large experimental areas of LIGO were accidentally left switched on during a a couple of weeks of O2 data collection up to December 13 when they were switched off. At least once these phones rang and the ringtone made loud sounds (glitches) show up in microphones but also in the gravitational-wave channel data. Attached is an O2-preview of what this glitch will look like in GravitySpy data. We am worried that there might be other times in the data set for O1 and O2 when a phone at one of the sites was on. We would be very interested to learn whether any of you have seen glitches similar to this in the GravitySpy data set so far?
For more information, see this LIGO Hanford logbook post, including wave files, https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=32503.
-Josh