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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:50, Tuesday 23 June 2026 - last comment - 17:57, Tuesday 23 June 2026(90708)
BS Alignment with SQZ Beam, got MICH fringes with SQZ and IFO beam

Continued from 90691. Betsy, Keita, Sheila, Oli, Eric, Camilla, Ryan S, Jenne

First thing, we went back to alignment we had ITMX SQZ  the "flashes" and "fly-bys" yesterday, put the same size oscillation on the BS, but saw no flashes of fly bys. Betsy took a video of what the two SQZ beams looked like at PR2 at this alignment, they were crossing each other. 

We then rethought the alignments from yesterday, we are leaving:

Once we did this, we had SRY fringes, Betsy and I then adjusted the BS to bring the beams back on top of each other at PR2. This was a change in the BS sliders from (P 1000, Y 1290) to (P 1350, Y 1180).

Keita then wobbled ITMX and found the SQZ beam off ITMX! Aligned ITMX to get MICH flashes at AS_AIR, AS_A/B and ISCT1 REFL. He had to move ITMX from (P -96, Y 104) to (P -280, Y 94). 

He then got the PSL IX and IY reflection in the AS_AIR camera in this alignment. Sliders at this alignment attached

However as we are not sure we trust the ITMY alignment form top mass osems (from 90551), we want this Pitch change to be in ITMY, so ITMX is at it's known DRMI pointing. We could try to walk these, maybe along with SRC which might reduce some of our Pitch differences in SR2 and SRM. This change is so small that we will go ahead with mechanically offloading BS Pitch. The BS YAW will not mechanically changed. 

The OMs are also not currently in their O4 sliders/osems position, attached. We could verify the SQZ beam pointing by putting these back if we thought that was needed.

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 17:57, Tuesday 23 June 2026 (90724)

Since IMTX was moved today, I had to move PR3 to compensate in order to regain IMC flashes in the AS camera as well as ISCT1 camera.

H1:SUS-PR3_M1_OPTICALIGN_P_OFFSET is now -247.0 (used to be -140).

H1:SUS-PR3_M1_OPTICALIGN_Y_OFFSET is now -245.0 (used to be -583).