elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:35, Thursday 22 August 2024 (79649)
OFI Vent Recovery- Back to NLN
Just a quick report now that we are back to NLN!
After getting through various alignment details at 2W, getting to NLN is very smooth and requires no intervention
The problem with the PI guardian last night was because I manualed over the "inject squeezing" state which also engages the PI guardian. PI damping engaged properly today!
Naoki is working on SQZ alignment, reverting the ZMs to the July alignment
Some visible excess noise in DARM below 60 Hz. A quick coherence measurement shows that a portion of this noise at least is LSC. We can retune the FF soon
I ran a quick broadband PCal measurement that shows our calibration is off, unsurprisingly. Louis can help us recover the calibration over the next few days.
We have still not set the y-arm green references, due to issues getting the ALS Y locked properly when in fully alignment. We can fix this on the next relocking
We still have not solved the ALS Y WFS problem, and we still don't know what's wrong. However, we have improved the counts on ALS Y WFS B, which might help DOF2 run better when the loops are engaged.
The current (not-well-calibrated and unsqueezed) range is reading at 123 Mpc