Reports until 16:26, Thursday 19 March 2026
LHO General
ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:26, Thursday 19 March 2026 (89571)
OPS Day Shift Summary

TITLE: 03/19 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is in IDLE for ENGINEERING

TLDR: Productive day. DRMI is locking easily (manual/by-hand locking). Main priority now is proving SQZ works, which Sheila and Camilla are working on.

After my initial alignment at the start of the day, we managed to lock DRMI by hand, tuning it as we got closer. DRMI to 3F still does not work. Elenna worked on fixing it by isolating the problem to a MICH loop. Details are in alog 89567. During this testing process, DRMI would automaticall relock over 10 times, which is good. 

Meanwhile, Sheila, Gabriele and Camilla were working on getting SQZ to work. Between the control room, FCES and SQZT7, they managed to find flashes and are now working on alignment. Alog 89569 documents their progress.

In the LVEA, VAC identified a faulty ion pump and closed HAM1 gate valves (a small pump one not the arm one since this is causing some confusion). EE continued cabling work.

Otherwise, Jim reports that SEIMON has not been working for 7 days and so EQ auto-detection may be faulty and should be monitored.  

LOG:

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
15:38 SQZ Camilla, Sheila FCES Y Hazard transition and SQZ Work 17:20
16:01 FAC Kim, Nellie LVEA N Technical Cleaning 17:33
16:01 SUS Oli Optics Lab LOCAL BHD 19:14
16:30 SEI Jeff Optics lab LOCAL SPI work 20:03
16:31 FAC Kim H2 encl N Tech cleaning 17:18
17:00 FAC Randy LVEA N West Bay Pickup 17:18
17:07 SEI Bram, Jim Optics Lab N SPI 21:48
17:08 OPS Ryan C Optics Lab LOCAL Tangless helicoil tool search 17:18
17:21 TCS Sophie Vac-Prep N CHETA 19:14
17:32 SQZ Gabriele, Sheila FCES Y Photography, SQZT7 Work 19:32
17:59 VAC Gerardo LVEA N Pump Cart Check 18:09
18:34 OPS Corey EX, EY N Parts search 19:05
19:04 VAC Gerardo, Jordan LVEA Y (at height) Closing HAM1 Gate Valves 21:01
19:37 EE Fil LVEA Y (at height) CER/HAM3 Cabling 22:05
20:31 BHD Oli, Elenna Optics lab N BHD 23:31
22:05 EE Fil MY N Picking up parts 00:04
22:30 TCS Sophie Vac-Prep N CHETA 23:30
22:41 PEM Robert EX N Ground noise measurements 23:41