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H1 ISC (Lockloss)
elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:21, Wednesday 18 June 2025 - last comment - 10:28, Monday 23 June 2025(85167)
Two ~13 Hz ring up locklosses identified

Oli, Elenna

Oli and I combed through some of the recent locklosses by hand, and noticed that there are at least two that have a 13 Hz oscillation in the LSC channels just before the lockloss.

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This is reminiscent to us of PRCL losing gain due to thermalization which has caused 11 Hz ring ups before. We should keep an eye out. Note that one of the above locklosses has the "earthquake" tag, but it's very clear that the ring up caused the lockloss.

Oli and I went back about 1 week and checked the NLN locklosses by eye and only found these two so far.

To start, we can periodically check PRCL OLG or other LSC OLGs during thermalization to make sure we aren't losing significant optical gain. Or we can inject a line during commissioning.

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oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 10:28, Monday 23 June 2025 (85242)

Another 13 Hz ringup here: 85239