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rahul.kumar@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:24, Tuesday 28 January 2025 - last comment - 16:59, Monday 10 February 2025(82499)
A+ O5 HRTS report - all 12 HRTS assembled (with dummy optic), balanced and characterised.

Ryan Crouch, Rahul Kumar

The assembly, balancing and testing of all 12 HRTS (Ham Relay Triple Suspension) for O5 is now complete. Currently all 12 HRTS has dummy optic installed at the bottom stage and once the mirrors are ready (with prisms bonded) then it will be replaced (later this year). I am attaching several pictures from the lab which shows all 12 HRTS staged on the optical bench. Later, six of the suspensions will be transported to LLO.

This plot compares the of transfer function performance of all 12 HRTS for all 6 degrees of freedom. We are still analyzing this data and there is scope for improving a couple of them (especially highlighted in green trace). Sometimes, it is as simple as adjusting the flag position wrt to LED/PD in bosems, and other times further fine tuning the balance and alignment of the blade springs.

The final two HRTS which were assembled by us are of OM0 configuration. This has bottom mass (M3 stage) actuation using AOSEM standoff assembly (as per D2300180_v2) as shows in the picture over here. The magnets used at M3 stage is 2.0 mm D x 0.5 mm T, SmCo. The transfer function results for both the OM0 configurations are as follows - attachment01 and attachment02. Both of them look healthy, when compared with the model.

Given below are the OLC, offsets and gains of the bosems attached to OM0 sn02,

s/n 622  31669 15834 0.947
s/n 639  32414 16207 0.925
s/n 637  28430 14215 1.055
s/n 632  27399 13699 1.094
s/n 684  26138 13069 1.147
s/n 698  32767 16383 0.915
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ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - 16:59, Monday 10 February 2025 (82730)SUS

I remeasured the associated suspension with the lime green trace (2024-9-16), a suspended version of the HRTS with structure s/n 012. Through adjusting the flags centering and position I was able to improve the measurement results, especially the verticle DOF, yaw also looks better. Previous measurement vs new measurement.

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