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anthony.sanchez@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:59, Tuesday 06 October 2026 - last comment - 22:12, Tuesday 06 October 2026(92219)
Tuesday OPS Eve Shift

TITLE: 10/07 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Corrective Maintenance
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 9mph Gusts, 7mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.15 μm/s 
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Mostly a quiet night. 
Comissioners pushed forward on making it easier to lock. 
Lockloss from the IMC which went into fault a few times near 1:50 UTC.  
IMC is now relocked.

SR3 Heater turned  Off at 155 UTC. 
ISC_Lock set to down for the night.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 22:12, Tuesday 06 October 2026 (92221)

A couple more locking notes for tonight:

  • I adjusted SR3 pitch to match the oplev before we started using the heater, -1 pitch.  We are about halfway cooled off now, so this will need to be redone in the morning. 
  • PRMI ASC worked with MICH only, but not PRCL.  
  • Next locking attempt DRMI would not lock.  I added the mode hop offset back into the guardian, and was able to sit at AQUIRE_DRMI but not go to DRMI_LOCKED.  Stepping through that step one thing at a time the stopband PRM M3 ISCINF FM3 seems to destabilize the build ups badly at a frequency below 1Hz.  This is strange since that filter is a 230 Hz stopband, as shown in the first attachment, however it is quite repeatable.  
  • PRCL OLG in DRMI 1F looks off.   I tried to check the popair phasing, but lost lock while engaging the 88Hz notches.  
  • In PRMI checked both the PRCL OLG and the phasing.  The phasing of REFLAIR 9 puts PRCL in I in PRMI nicely.  
  • Made a few more attempts to check phasing in DRMI, but wasn't able to turn on the notches without causing large oscillations.  I did check all three OLGs.  Attached is a series of MICH OLG measurements, I think the difference between these is slightly different alignments and SR3 heater is causing SR3 to drift, and I made some adjustments.  PRCL OLGS seem to also have an alignment dependence . 

 

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