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H1 General
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:59, Thursday 24 September 2015 (21909)
OPS Day Summary: Sept 24

TITLE: Sept 24, 15:00-23:00UTC, 8:00-16:00PT

 

STATE Of H1: Observe, Range = 77Mpc, locked 3 hours, Observe 1 hour

 

SUPPORT: Hugh, Sheila

 

SHIFT SUMMARY

 

IFO locked as soon as ground motion decreased, however, another four earthquakes of magnitude 4+ arrived, and full lock in Low Noise took the first 4 hours of the shift.

 

Currently IFO is in Observe and injections are planned.

 

INCOMING OPERATOR: JimW

 

ACTIVITY LOG:

Earlier activity details logged in alogs 21900, 21894, 21893, and 21888.

 

15:00UTC - start of shift, IFO was aligned by Corey, locked with his alignment, only tweak I made was to ETMY TMS

15:47:12UTC - ground motion just coming down enough to relock, first DRMI lock since the earthquake in Canada

16:09:36UTC - IFO made it to Bounce Violin Mode Damping

16:19:37UTC - IFO unlocked

18:04:31UTC - IFO ready to lock, and this starts the locking sequence that resulted in the IFO going to Low Noise

18:55:04UTC - IFO in Low Noise

18:58:57UTC - IFO in Observe

19:26UTC - 12:26PT, truck at receiving

19:37:35UTC - Commissioning , Praxair on site, other activities

19:44UTC - Richard, Filiberto, Mid-Y

19:45:55UTC - engaged FM2 on DHARD_Y, Sheila's filter

21:43:53UTC - IFO back to Observe, lock has been continuous since 18:58:57UTC

23:00:00UTC - end of shift, plans being made for injections 

 

CURRENT ToDo List, when not locked:

- reload Guardian on SR2.  It is showing a filter change on it's Guardian, which does NOT prevent Observe mode, but indicates that Guardian needs to be reloaded, which should clear this up.

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