TITLE: 11/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 147Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Tony
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 15:26 UTC (9 hr lock!)

IFO was locked for the entire shift. CAL sweep was done after SE standdown in coordination with LLO (alog 88016)

5 2nd Sat tours went great!

LOG:

None

TITLE: 11/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 3mph Gusts, 1mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.43 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 15:26 UTC

Wind is down and microseism looks to be coming down.

Coordinated CAL sweep today at 11:30 with LLO but otherwise plans are to keep observing!

TITLE: 11/07 Day Shift: 1530-0000 UTC (0730-1600 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: Tony
SHIFT SUMMARY: Recovery from the Mexico earthquake this morning was fairly fast, but it left rung up violin modes that took hours to damp to the point that we could go to low noise. Once in low noise we managed to Observe for over an hour before we lost lock from what seem to be an ETMX/DARM glitch. We ran an initial alignment and now we are powering up. The 0.3-1Hz seismic blrm is starting to come down, so that's a good thing.
LOG:

• 2106 Observing

TITLE: 11/07 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Earthquake
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 10mph Gusts, 8mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.75 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is LOCKING at INITIAL_ALIGNMENT

We had a very local EQ during the no-call time on OWL (alog 88001) that tripped the following watchdogs: ISI EY ST1, ISI EY ST2, ISI IX ST1, ISI IX ST2, ISI IY ST1, ISI IY ST2, SUS IX, SUS IY, SUS EY, IX HW WD. IY HW WD, ISI HAM1, SEI ISI IX SW, SEI ISI IY SW, HEPI IX, HEPI IY.

Richard, who was on site, untripped them before shift start.

Just started an initial alignment and now watching out for SRY and IM issues that have happened before during violent WD tripping EQs.

Hoping for a smooth day of OBSERVING

TITLE: 11/07 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Microseism
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Shift started with locking outlook grim, but eventually H1 locked DRMI and it was automatic after that.  There was an issue with ADS lines, but that was mostly taken care of with some help from friends.   Microseism continues to be very high.

Since Locking was fine, we are set for OWL tonight (gave RyanC a heads up).  If there is a lockloss, the ADS Clock Gain SDF diff will need to be accepted.

LOG:

• 0050 Optics Lab is back to Laser SAFE (rahul)
• 0101-0120 Initial Alignment
• 0138-0146 PEM equipment clean-up in LVEA (robert)
  • Turned off some amps which were turned on earlier in the day and coiled up some cables.
• 0141 New Lock
  • 0146 PRMI locking and finally locked by 0150
  • And after this H1 made it all the way to NLN!
  • 0243 NLN
  • 0337 OBSERVING
  • 03:59:47 - 03:59:56 out of observing to LOAD change for ADS Lines (THIS WILL NEED AN SDF ACCEPT FOR NEXT LOCK!) 

TITLE: 11/07 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Microseism
OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 8mph Gusts, 5mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.77 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1 had a bit of a day.  What's new today from TJ---is that H1 is having trouble locking DRMI.

Microseism definitely continues to be the main culprit environmentally with (0.1-0.3 and 0.3-1.0Hz bands both being high and even increasing over the last 6-8hrs).  Winds are now low and it is raining out.

Plan for the EVE shift is to continue with locking.

Plan for OWL shift (if locking woes continue), is to NOT set OWL shift alerts for the night, take ISC_LOCK to IDLE, and then I just touched base with RyanC about having him assess H1 locking about 4hrs after the EVE shift (~around 2AM).  If locking looks better, continue locking, but if it continues to look dire, take ISC_LOCK to IDLE for the OWL shift .

TITLE: 11/07 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Microseism
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: Two lock losses this morning, the first from the 1Hz ring up and the second most likely from PEM injections. We haven't been able to get back to low noise since, because the 0.1-1.0Hz seismic motion has risen in the past 6 hours to the point where we can't hold DRMI. 
LOG:

• 1755 Lock loss
• 2154 Lock loss                                      

TITLE: 11/06 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan S
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 26mph Gusts, 19mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.06 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.46 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is LOCKING at LOCKING_ALS

Wind and microseism were high last night and microseism is still quite high and over the 90% threshold. H1 was finishing an automatic initial alignment when I arrived.

Relocking now.

TITLE: 11/06 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 19Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

H1 was locked the entire shift.  There was one quick drop due to an "automatic" PMC Voltage adjustment.  Microseism is still high and mostly stable at same level for the last 20hrs.
LOG:

• 0327-0330 SQZ lockloss due to PMC having too high of a voltage (see attached)---in contrast to last night when it was too low.  It relocked automatically and PMC Voltage went from 93 down to 30V.
• 0348-0533 Cleaning SPI optics & organizing in Optics Lab (corey, with remote H1 alerts on my phone enabled)

TITLE: 11/06 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 148Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: We had 3 lock losses from Close_Beam_Diverters today. The first reminded us that the issue is still present, even though we didn't have a problem getting locked last night. For the second, we tried to delay when the OMC whitening came on, thinking it was getting engaged too soon while the beam diverters were closing. The third we spaced out when the beam diverters closed, so they wouldn't close all three at once. It lost lock just after the first one closed. We then relocked and went to observing with the beam diverters open, but this ended up being a rather short, 1hr, lock. On the final attempt of this shift, we tested out moving the beam diverters and ended up moving the ISC_LOCK state that closes them to just after engaging ASC for full IFO. We have been observing since. See alog87970 for more beam diverter investigations.
LOG:

• 2027 Observing with beam diverters open
• 2121 Lock loss
• 2340 Observing with beam diverters closed           

TITLE: 11/06 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 148Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 18mph Gusts, 15mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.57 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1 continues to have a rough time with locking....where the pesky HAM1 Beam Diverters have been a focus.  Additionally, in the background, this all happens with very high µseism!  (peaked 17hrs ago and slowly dropped a tiny amount since then.  Looks like we might have just finished riding through a small wind storm.  At the moment, H1 has been locked for almost 1hr.

TITLE: 11/05 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan S
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 11mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.60 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY: Lost lock about an hour ago, trying to lock DRMI now. Had two lock losses and relocked during the last shift. Looks like the MSR WAP is stuck. Stand down query failure, I'll restart that now. The useism is up again, somehow we locked last night though. Today's plan is to Observe!

TITLE: 11/05 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Preventive Maintenance
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Bit of a rough start to the shift with H1 having issues getting to NLN.  Managed to finally get to Observing after a few hours of work (see earlier alogs).  Violins were high (but not off the DARM FOM), and have steadily been dropping over the 2+hrs of this lock.

Had a LOW SQZ_PMC voltage, but squeezer lockloss and automatic relock brought the voltage back to a better state (70+ volts).
LOG:

• BTE cell phone signal testing (robert, sam)
  • Done around 0100utc (and they regaled stories of seeing a herd of elk, lots of fat black widows, and a kitchen knife (all along the x-arm).
• 0039 Elenna saw 1Hz noise while at ADS TO CAMERAS, so she had me engage "ASC HI GN"....and then continue to INJECT SQUEEZING
• 0040 Lockloss at CLOSING BEAM DIVERTERS (see Elenna's alog)
• Spent a few hours returning to NLN, but it required slowly walking through ISC_LOCK's final states.
• 0501-0540 First Contact three optic faces in the Optics Lab with RyanS as my Buddy (corey)
• 0506-0510 SQZ lockloss due to PMC Voltage being low.  It automatically relocked and it has made the jump from close to 0V up to 72V (see attached pic) and now we no longer have the LOW Voltage notification for SQZ_PMC.

TITLE: 11/05 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Preventive Maintenance
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: Maintenance Tuesday. Relocking hasn't been very successful so far. CO2Y was having IR faulting issues (alog87952), then we had a lock loss that occurred when we got to the Close_Beam_Diverters state, which we saw last week (alog87877). Now we are having a few earthquakes rolling through as we sit in max power. We don't want to advance until the ground stop shaking a bit so we can keep high gain asc on. 
LOG:                                                                                        

TITLE: 11/05 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Preventive Maintenance
OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: EARTHQUAKE
    Wind: 10mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.52 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.35 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

Maintenance Day Recovery continues through the hand-off, but H1 locking is also being impacted by strong seismic activity (Russia EQs + microseism also inching back up).  Violins look elevated as well, so there has been attention given to them.

Hand-Offs from TJ:

• wifi is ON at EX, EY, MSR for Tony, so will need to turn OFF before OBSERVING
• CO2y laser tripped earlier today, and TJ hopes it will be fine, but just mentioned it.
• Currently taking H1 to LASER NOISE SUPPRESSION and Elenna wants to walk through the states to NLN slowly to watch for reasons for locklosses.

TITLE: 11/04 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 8mph Gusts, 5mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.29 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY: Violin modes are very rung up, although our violin monitors dont agree with that. Our range has been very low for the past 2 hours, as if the squeezer isn't squeezing. While the magnetic injections are running right now, I don't think they are getting anything useful. Still trying to figure out what's going on.

Maintenance day today.