TITLE: 09/08 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Oli
SHIFT SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 14:13 UTC (37 hr lock!)
LOG:
TITLE: 09/07 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 159Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: We stayed locked the whole shift, over 31 hours.
LOG: No log.
TITLE: 09/07 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 14mph Gusts, 9mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.12 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 14:13 UTC (31 hr lock!)
Sun Sep 07 10:07:43 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 7min 39secs
Good fill. TC-A continues to be all over the shop, occasionally giving believable readings. Similar to yesterday it was TC-A which had a larger Delta-temp and triggered the end-of-fill, closely followed by TC-B.
TITLE: 09/07 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 5mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.12 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
I was restarting some FOMs and noticed that PIMON looked frozen, sure enough the last lockloss data it saved in /ligo/data/pimon/locklosses/ was from Aug 19 2025 06:54:13 UTC. I restarted it at 15:00 UTC.
Oli, Camilla (Oli did the work, I just wrote down what they did!)
Oli had been troubleshooting SQZ and found that when the OPO ISS tried to engage, it go to 10V and then unlocked. The OPO Trans output was only ~50uW on LOCKED_CLF_NO_ISS. This was meaning the ISS was maxing out it's 0-10V range to get to the nominal setpoint of 80uW.
We could see on SQZT0 medm that the SHG output power was 81.2mW when nominal is ~ 100mW. This will reduce the available power to the OPO path. We followed the wiki to increase the SHG power (I should make the instructions of when to do this clearer) by adjusting the SHG SETTEMP. Doing this, Oli brought SHG power up from 81mW to 92mW.
Then the OPO Trans output was ~65uW on LOCKED_CLF_NO_ISS (nominal 80uW). So Oli moved the waveplate between the +200MHz AOM and the SHG Rejected PD in the "to OPO" path to increase the available power sent into SHG launch. Then the AOM had enough range and the OPO could lock in LOCKED_CLF_DUAL_NO_ISS.
Then Oli had issues with getting the FC to lock in Green so followed the wiki instructions to in do that too, trending to last good alignments with ZM3 (had moved 20urad on FC lockloss from ASC turning off) and then manually locking FC and increasing power with FC2, (FC1, ZM3) alignments. Oli increased the power in the 0,0 mode form 35 to 65 with alignments. Nominally this is > 80 but it had only been at 50 in the last lock, probably from the SHG power being low.
Back to Observing 7:13amPT.
TITLE: 09/07 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 153Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Oli
SHIFT SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 20:03 UTC (13 hr lock)
Quiet shift. No locklosses. No Earthquakes.
The "bycicle" oscillations where CHARD_Y and DHARD_Y signals oscillate for ~20s seem anecdotally more frequent than yesterday's shift.
LOG:
TITLE: 09/06 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 155Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: GWSTAT is still down, we've been locked for 7.5 hours.
LOG: No log
TITLE: 09/06 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 157Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 10mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.08 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 20:03 UTC (7 hr lock)
Well behaved, quiet and locked.
Calibration monitor before the measurement, measurement report.
Broadband:
Start: 2025-09-06 19:31:00 UTC
Stop: 2025-09-06 19:36:11 UTC
File: 2025-09-06 12:31:00,345 measurement output: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/PCALY2DARM_BB/PCALY2DARM_BB_20250906T193100Z.xml
Simulines:
Start: 2025-09-06 19:37:39 UTC // 1441222677 GPS
Stop: 2025-09-06 20:01:00 UTC // 1441224078.696016 GPS
Files:
2025-09-06 20:01:00,541 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/DARMOLG_SS/DARMOLG_SS_20250906T193739Z.hdf5
2025-09-06 20:01:00,548 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/PCALY2DARM_SS/PCALY2DARM_SS_20250906T193739Z.hdf5
2025-09-06 20:01:00,552 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L1_SS/SUSETMX_L1_SS_20250906T193739Z.hdf5
2025-09-06 20:01:00,557 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L2_SS/SUSETMX_L2_SS_20250906T193739Z.hdf5
2025-09-06 20:01:00,561 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L3_SS/SUSETMX_L3_SS_20250906T193739Z.hdf5
Sat Sep 06 10:07:21 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 7min 17secs
From TC-B it looks like a good fill. TC-A started misbehaving at 06:47 this morning, it had rejoined TC-B just prior to the fill at 09:45 before diverging again.
For reference sunrise today was 06:25. Weather is overcast.
Note that it was TC-A which actually triggered the end-of-fill, its temp went from -30C to -200C in 5 seconds. For reference during Friday's fill it went from -90C to -200C in 15 seconds.
TITLE: 09/06 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 10mph Gusts, 5mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.08 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
15:51 UTC Observing
TITLE: 09/06 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Oli
SHIFT SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 00:28 UTC
Locked for last 2/3 of the shift and fully auto lock acquisition for the first 1/3. Lockloss was due to the ETM glitch (lockloss alog 86755)
LOG:
None
TITLE: 09/05 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: We had a lockloss at the end of the shift from an ETMX glitch, running an IA as of now.
LOG:
Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
20:56 | FAC | Tyler | EndY | N | Check on air handler 3 | 22:26 |
Lockloss 22:44 UTC from an ETMX glitch.
Back to NLN at 00:28 UTC
Last checked in alog86131, Closes FAMIS26629
T240
2025-09-05 10:00:43.259660
There are 13 T240 proof masses out of range (> 0.3 [V])!:
ETMX T240 2 DOF X/U = -1.516 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = -1.399 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = -1.032 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -2.131 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.423 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -2.257 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF X/U = -1.041 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = -2.686 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.376 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.302 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.461 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Y/V = -0.546 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Z/W = -0.881 [V]
All other proof masses are within range ( < 0.3 [V] ):
ETMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.118 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.145 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.177 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.113 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.182 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.132 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.028 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.119 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.164 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF X/U = -0.114 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.163 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.005 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF X/U = 0.172 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.009 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.082 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.214 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.131 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.223 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.183 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.074 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.094 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.023 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.082 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.036 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.017 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.215 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.066 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.029 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.093 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.131 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.043 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.131 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.009 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.194 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF X/U = -0.206 [V]
STS
2025-09-05 10:05:11.268277
There are 2 STS proof masses out of range (> 2.0 [V])!:
STS EY DOF X/U = -4.636 [V]
STS EY DOF Z/W = 2.288 [V]
All other proof masses are within range ( < 2.0 [V] ):
STS A DOF X/U = -0.462 [V]
STS A DOF Y/V = -0.819 [V]
STS A DOF Z/W = -0.56 [V]
STS B DOF X/U = 0.186 [V]
STS B DOF Y/V = 0.945 [V]
STS B DOF Z/W = -0.401 [V]
STS C DOF X/U = -0.703 [V]
STS C DOF Y/V = 0.763 [V]
STS C DOF Z/W = 0.543 [V]
STS EX DOF X/U = -0.193 [V]
STS EX DOF Y/V = -0.132 [V]
STS EX DOF Z/W = 0.048 [V]
STS EY DOF Y/V = 1.233 [V]
STS FC DOF X/U = 0.199 [V]
STS FC DOF Y/V = -1.141 [V]
STS FC DOF Z/W = 0.596 [V
After seeing that I made mistakes in the past by only running just the T240s or just the STSs, I made a bash script to run them both in their own xterm window, then once they're done all the ouput is printed in the xterm window and copied to the clipboard to be pasted to the alog.
The new button on the WEEKLIES.adl medm is labeled "! STS & T240 Centering"