Reports until 11:54, Thursday 09 January 2014
H1 ISC (IOO, ISC)
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:54, Thursday 09 January 2014 (9178)
PR3 alignment range that allows visibility to HAM1
Alexa, Kiwamu, Koji, Stefan

Today we started with centering the TMS pointing on the ITM using the baffle diodes (with ITMX misaligned) :

Baffle PD1: H1:AOS-ITMX_BAFFLEPD_1_POWER maximized:
H1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_P_OFFSET 105,5
H1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_Y_OFFSET -208.5

Baffle PD4: H1:AOS-ITMX_BAFFLEPD_3_POWER maximized:
H1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_P_OFFSET 174.0
H1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_Y_OFFSET -270.0

Center position:
1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_P_OFFSET 139.75
H1:SUS-TMSX_M1_OPTICALIGN_Y_OFFSET -239.25


Next we established the visibility into HAM1, i.e. the range of PR3 alignments that result in the x-arm green beam reaching HAM1. The orthogonal slider was left at the initial position.

The numbers below are PR3 alignment numbers (i.e. H1:SUS-PR3_M1_OPTICALIGN_P_OFFSET and H1:SUS-PR3_M1_OPTICALIGN_Y_OFFSET):

initial position:  pit -263.8, yaw -272

disappear up    pit -189
disappear down  pit -330 (spot visible in ham 2, glow starting at -320)
disappear north yaw -188
disappear south yaw -320

on swiss cheese baffle down  pit -353
on swiss cheese baffle up    pit -176
on swiss cheese baffle south yaw -366 (glow on cam from tower yaw -320)
on swiss cheese baffle north yaw -178


center visible: pit -254.5 yaw -254 (using -320 instead of -330 for pit down limit)

center swiss cheese baffle: pit -264.5 yaw -272