Reports until 18:58, Monday 23 February 2026
H1 IOO (INS, IOO, ISC)
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:58, Monday 23 February 2026 - last comment - 07:54, Tuesday 24 February 2026(89236)
JAC monday

We installed JM1, balanced it and aligned it. A beam dump was placed behind it though we could not see the transmission with 1W input.

After this, JAC locked with RF without any problem though the input was wobbly when the purge was up.

We searched for unexpected ghost beams (also with 1W input) and didn't find any.

We uninstalled many (but not all) temporary dog clamps and irises.

We revisited the IMC alignment because it's been off in PIT since Thursday or Friday. We locked JAC using dither (because we wanted to turn down the purge air). We enabled the IMC WFS just for MC optics and steered JM3, but weren't able to center the MC2 trans. Steering JM3 just made the IMC transmission worse while making not much impact on the desired degree of freedon (JM3 PIT -> MC2 trans YAW, JAM3 YAW -> MC2 trans PIT).

Tomorrow, we'll revisit the IMC alignment. We'll also measure the power coming into JAC TRANS PD as well as the actual transmission of JAC while locking it with RF so we can use JAC trans PD as the measure of the power into HAM1.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 07:54, Tuesday 24 February 2026 (89240)
FYI, there are about 24 beam dumps now installed on this table.
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