Reports until 07:42, Wednesday 06 November 2024
LHO General
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:42, Wednesday 06 November 2024 - last comment - 10:26, Wednesday 06 November 2024(81092)
Wed DAY Ops Transition

TITLE: 11/06 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Aligning
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 6mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.16 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.18 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1 had a 6.5hr lock overnight (after waking up Ibrahim), and just went down about 30min ago due to a M5.9 EQ in the Solomon Islands (switching Observatory Mode to EARTHQUAKE).  ISC LOCK is currently running an automatic alignment. 

Microseism continues it's trend downward.  Winds are negligible.

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 08:36, Wednesday 06 November 2024 (81094)PSL
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As noted by Jason and Ryan S yesterday 81073, the power out of the PSL is again not stable. Fluctuating from 1.2 to 2.7W. There's not a known solution for this so we will sit with ISC_LOCK in IDLE until this stabilizes.

The IMC is saying it's locked but the power out if wildly fluctuating from 2W to 50W so we took it to OFFLINE. Plot.

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 09:17, Wednesday 06 November 2024 (81098)
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At 17:10UTC this NPRO behavior calmed down and Jason locked the ISS and FSS. I took LASER_PWR to POWER_2W then IMC_LOCK to LOCKED then started the main locking process.

camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 10:26, Wednesday 06 November 2024 (81100)PSL
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Attached plot showing comparison to Jason/Oli's plot from 81099. You can see:

  • NPRO power before the PMC (top right LASER_AMP2_PWR) is stable.
  • Even after FSS and ISS is taken DOWN, the REFL and TRANS power from the OMC are not stable.
  • We are unsure if the IMC IM4 TRANS power is physical or if there's some strange calibration happening here to output 50W out when the IMC. This plot shows that ASC_A IMC_MC2_TRANS and Keita's new AS_AIR channel do see power fluctuations at this time.
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