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H1 General (Lockloss)
camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:12, Thursday 13 June 2024 (76052)
Comparing unknown locklosses in O4 to O3.
Using a lot of assumptions, I estimated that our lockloss rate in O4a is similar to O3a but much better than O3b.
O4b rate is worse but we are only 2 months in so it's not fair to compare.

I've also looked at the amount of hours we've lost from unknown locklosses, which is the majority of our locklosses at around 65%, and how many theortircal GW's we coudl ahev missed becasue of these. 

O4b so far 110 LHO locklosses from observing in O4b [1] x 65% unknown [2] x 2 hours down per lockloss = 143 hours downtime from unknown locklosses. 925 observing hours in O4b so far (60% of O4b [3], from April 10th).

O4a 350 LHO locklosses from observing in O4a [1] x 65% unknown [2] x 2 hours down per lockloss = 450 hours downtime from unknown locklosses. 5700 observing hours in O4a (67% of O4a [3]) with 81 candidates  in O4b [4]= 1 candidate / 70 hours so 450 hours / 70 observing hours per candidate ~ 6.5 gw candidates lost due to unknown locklosses The Ops team notes that we had considerably more locklosses during the first ~month of O4a while using 75W input power.

O3b 247 LHO locklosses from observing in O3b [5] x 65% unknown [using same as O4a] x 2 hours down per lockloss = 320 hours downtime from unknown locklosses. 2790 observing hours in O4a (79% of O3b [3]) with 35 events [6]= 1 events / 80 hours 320 hours / 80 observing hours per event ~ 4 events lost due to unknown locklosses.

O3a 182 LHO locklosses from observing in O3a [5] x 65% unknown [using same as O4a] x 2 hours down per lockloss = 235 hours downtime from unknown locklosses. 3120 observing hours in O4a (71% of O3a [3]) with 44 events [6]= 1 events / 70 hours 235 hours / 70 observing hours per event ~ 3.3 events lost due to unknown locklosses.

We currently don't track downtime per lockloss, but we could think about tracking it, 2 hours is a guess. It may be as low as 1 hour. 

[1] https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~lockloss/ using date and Observing filters.
[2] O4 lockloss Googlesheet
[3] https://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~DetChar/summary/O4a/ or O4b or O3b or O3a
[4] https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/public/O4a/
[5] G2201762 O3a_O3b_summary.pdf
[6] https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G2102395
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