Reports until 00:39, Friday 07 March 2014
H1 ISC
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:39, Friday 07 March 2014 (10599)
realingment tonight, ALS COMM locking

In addition to realigning the TMS, I also moved ETMX, ITMX, PR3, PR2 and IM4 tonight. 

I initially aligned the straight shot to ISCT1 using TMS and the baffle diodes, then PR3 for the camera spot.  Then I locked the cavity and tried engaging WFS.  I was able to engage PIT DOF1 and YAW DOF 1, and although the error signals were eventually brought to zero, the cavity build up dropped compared to the hand alignment.  The spot position also moved away from the spot on the camera that I had centered the single shot beam to.  I tried engaging PIT DOF2, but the gain was set to 0, and has been for a few days. I tried a gain of 1, which was bad, and a gain of 0.1 which seemed to have no impact. 

I gave up on the WFS and alinged the cavity by hand.  By moving TMS in pitch I was able to get the cavity build up to 800 counts again, so I decided to abandon WFS for tonight and go on to locking COMM.  The ALS_XARM guardian now has states for WFS. 

I was able to lock COMM using the guardian, and it was stable tonight with high gain ( I mean that the lock didn't drop unless I did something).  The noise measured by the linearize error signal is a bit worse tonight, 200Hz.  The first higher order modes were resonanting at the frequency were we though we had found the 00 mode last night.  I found the 00 mode at -5990Hz, and tweaked up the alingment using IM4 and PR2. 

Right now IM4 is at PIT -3077 YAW -5707 PR2 at 445 YAW at -383.1  I didn't save these using the IFO align screen in case the red team wants to restore their alignment from this morning using the current saved offsets. 

I did save TMSX, ETMX, ITMX and PR3.