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H1 General
anthony.sanchez@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:56, Friday 20 February 2026 (89215)
Quarterly trends of HWWD bits for indication of negative function

Famis 39976 Inspect quarterly trends of HWWD bits for indication of negative function

All traces have had some motion on it in the last 91 days.

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H1 SUS (SUS)
rahul.kumar@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:20, Friday 20 February 2026 (89214)
SUS HRTS LO2 optic-prism glued

Yesterday afternoon I glued prisms to the LO2 optic for HRTS - see pictures attached.

This optic (D2100495-V5-LO2-M1-0002) will be shipped to LLO.

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H1 SEI
anthony.sanchez@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:51, Friday 20 February 2026 (89213)
SEI seismometer mass position check - Monthly

Famis 38888 SEI seismometer mass position check - Monthly :

Checking T240
Checking STS
Finished
Averaging Mass Centering channels for 10 [sec] ...
2026-02-20 11:36:02.279522


There are 12 T240 proof masses out of range ( > 0.3 [V] )!
ETMX T240 2 DOF X/U = -1.716 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = -1.819 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = -0.998 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -2.377 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.459 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -2.547 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF X/U = -1.089 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = -3.077 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.346 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.518 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Y/V = -0.428 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Z/W = -0.728 [V]


All other proof masses are within range ( < 0.3 [V] ):
ETMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.006 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.037 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.03 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.024 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.07 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.043 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.057 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.198 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.253 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF X/U = -0.087 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.215 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.046 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF X/U = 0.268 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.085 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.136 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.289 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.131 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.257 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.242 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.119 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.061 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.062 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.159 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.027 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.021 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.243 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.16 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.082 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.261 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.212 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.179 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.142 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Y/V = -0.271 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.061 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.263 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF X/U = -0.3 [V]


Assessment complete.
Averaging Mass Centering channels for 10 [sec] ...


2026-02-20 11:36:14.268587
There are 2 STS proof masses out of range ( > 2.0 [V] )!
STS EY DOF X/U = -4.582 [V]
STS EY DOF Z/W = 2.384 [V]


All other proof masses are within range ( < 2.0 [V] ):
STS A DOF X/U = -0.51 [V]
STS A DOF Y/V = -0.798 [V]
STS A DOF Z/W = -0.581 [V]
STS B DOF X/U = 0.108 [V]
STS B DOF Y/V = 0.953 [V]
STS B DOF Z/W = -0.309 [V]
STS C DOF X/U = -0.871 [V]
STS C DOF Y/V = 0.868 [V]
STS C DOF Z/W = 0.593 [V]
STS EX DOF X/U = 0.507 [V]
STS EX DOF Y/V = -0.551 [V]
STS EX DOF Z/W = -0.392 [V]
STS EY DOF Y/V = 1.204 [V]
STS FC DOF X/U = 0.153 [V]
STS FC DOF Y/V = -1.174 [V]
STS FC DOF Z/W = 0.637 [V]


Assessment complete.
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LHO VE
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:56, Friday 20 February 2026 (89212)
Fri CP1 Fill

Fri Feb 20 10:13:20 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 13min 17secs

 

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H1 TCS
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:26, Friday 20 February 2026 (89211)
CHETAX

The slow controls software was updated to include the ChetaX  electronics. The chassis is currently in the MSR for test purposes, but will be moved to the cheta lab next week.

Channels are located under H1:AWC-ITMX.

LHO General
ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:41, Friday 20 February 2026 (89210)
OPS Day Shift Start

TITLE: 02/20 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 14mph Gusts, 10mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.21 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is IDLE for PLANNED MAINTENANCE

JAC/HAM1 work continues

H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:06, Thursday 19 February 2026 - last comment - 07:41, Friday 20 February 2026(89207)
h1iscex TIM+ADC error

At 17:26 Thursday 19feb2026 h1iopiscex had a timing glitch causing a TIM+ADC error in its state word.

At 20:00 I restarted all the models which cleared the error.

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 07:41, Friday 20 February 2026 (89209)

May have been due to in-rack work. Robert may have been working on ground investigations at the time, the EX lights were not turned off until 17:49 (+23 mins from glitch).

H1 IOO (INS, IOO, ISC)
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:15, Thursday 19 February 2026 - last comment - 18:30, Thursday 19 February 2026(89197)
JAC work Thu. Feb/19/2016 morning (Mitch, Jennie, Jason, Betsy, Keita)

Beam dump for HAM1-HAM2 septum window AR reflection.

This was installed. 

Beam dump for the -Y door viewport reflection.

Jason and Betsy installed it. There seems to be a discussion as to whether or not something else needs to be done.

EOM and JAC power budget again.

We measured the power at various places. While Jason held the power meter head still, I ran the statistics function of the power meter for a few seconds. I only list the mean and the standard deviation.

Wrong pol is king of large, ~0.2% of the main beam power coming out of EOM. That's 200mW when 100W goes through the EOM. 

JAC throughput of 92% is not great, but Jason says the alignment and the matching are not really optimised.

JAC input 112mW+-462uW  
EOM input = JAC output 103mW+-6.3mW

JAC OUT/IN =

0.92+-0.06

EOM front AR reflection 57uW+-4.4uW

EOM AR/IN =

(5.5+0.5)*1e-4

EOM output (including the wrong pol beam) 96.9mW+-1.4mW  
EOM wrong pol beam 226uW+-17uW

EOM wrong pol/IN =

(2.2+-0.2)*1e-3 

EOM main pol (= out total - wrong pol)  96.7mW +-1.4mW

EOM main pol/IN =

.9978+-2e-4

 

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 18:30, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89205)

Afternoon work, REFL path aligned, RF lock works (Jennie, Jason, Betsy, Daniel, Keita)

It seemed as if what was supposed to be TFP after HWP was not really TFP, it was temporarily set aside.

REFL path to the JAC REFL RFPD was aligned without TFP. 100mW into JAC was enough to see the REFL beam there.

DC responded as expected.

There was a confusion about which demod chassis was used for JAC, which was sorted out by Daniel who subsequently set the demod phase. I zero-ed the dark offset.

I copied the JAC lock filter from dither path to JAC-L_SERVO path, locked JAC with dither, disabled the input to the dither servo and enabled RF locking in parallel, which worked just fine. I made rough changes to the RF servo to bump up the UGF to ~400Hz without too much gain peaking, I haven't tried anything aggressive to squash the residual motion below 200Hz, you might want to tweak it further.

I didn't disable the dither itself for the JAC PZT so we can compare the spectrum of RF and dither side by side. See attached, this was measured with 100mW into JAC, note that the dither error signal is scaled. References are with the purge air on and current traces are with the purge air completely turned down.

Guardian needs to be changed to allow smooth locking with RF.

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H1 SUS (CDS)
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:42, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89198)
PM1, RM1, RM2, JM1, JM3 COILOUT/DAMP filters updated to solve our confusion

Rahul, Jeff, Oli

In December 2025 when we needed to compensate for the HAM1 DACs moving from 16- to 28-bit, we had decided to have FM10 in the COILOUTF bank be gain(1024), and put the remaining gain(4) upstream in multiple other places (88553). This led to our confusion today when we realized that when taking transfer functions for PM1 and JM3, the TEST banks had gone back to gains of 1 a couple weeks ago, and since we had damping off, the extra gain wasn't going through to the excitation. This might at least partially be why PM1 had dropped in magnitude, and why the JMs are so low in magnitude too.

To solve confusion, I've gone through PM1, RM1, RM2, JM1, and JM3 and removed the extra gain(4) that's in:
- DAMP bank FM4
- TEST bank gains (if still there)
- OPTICALIGN gains
- LOCK filter bank gains
Then I updated the gains in COILOUTF FM10 from gain(1024) to gain(4096).

I've sdf'd the values and loaded in the changed filter modules. I also committed the filter file.

*To remove future confusion about the difference in value of the "28BitDAC" filter module in COILOUTF FM10, I am going to go through all the suspensions and change the name of that filter from "28BitDAC" to be something like "16to28Bit" or "18to28Bit" depending on the previously used DAC bits

H1 General
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:39, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89204)
Ops DAY Shift Start

TITLE: 02/20 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: More HAM1 alignment work today
LOG:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
22:49 SAF LVEA is Laser SAFE LVEA NO* LVEA is Laser SAFE *Bifurcated HAM1/2* 16:49
15:00 FAC Nellie LVEA YES Tech clean 15:04
15:00 FAC Kim LVEA YES Tech clean 15:38
15:30 FAC Randy LVEA n Working on test stand 19:58
16:17 VAC Jordan LVEA YES Turning down HAM1 purge air, HAM7 continuing leak checks 16:24
16:30 EE Fil MER n Electronics work 18:32
16:36 FAC Kim LVEA YES Tech clean 17:23
17:13 JAC Keita LVEA YES JAC alignment 20:11
17:13 VAC Gerardo LVEA YES Turning up HAM1 purge air 17:17
17:20 EE Marc MER n Joining Fil for electronics rack work 18:32
17:22 JAC Jason LVEA YES JAC alignment 20:23
17:59 VAC Jordan, Travis LVEA n HAM7 leak checks 18:23
18:21 SPI RyanS OpticsLab y(local) SPI setup 21:42
18:24 JAC Jennie LVEA YES JAC alignment 20:11
18:39   Betsy LVEA YES JAC work 20:23
18:50 JAC Rahul LVEA YES Checking on JAC team 19:02
18:51 SUS Ibrahim LVEA n Helping Randy at test stand 19:58
19:10 VAC Gerardo, Jordan, Travis LVEA n CP1 pump 20:11
19:14 SPI Jeff OpticsLab y(local) SPI work 21:42
20:07 PEM Robert EX n Grounding himself 21:23
20:49 FAC Randy LVEA n Test stand work 23:01
21:21 TCS Sophie JOAT Lab n Taking photos 21:39
21:55   Betsy LVEA YES Opening light pipe 21:57
21:56 TCS Sophie JOAT Lab n Taking more pictures 22:03
22:03 FAC Ibrahim LVEA n Test stand work 23:01
22:43 JAC Jason, Keita LVEA YES JAC alignment 00:43
22:48 EE Marc LVEA n Cable intel 23:44
22:55 TCS Sophie, Shreyan JOAT Lab n Populating tables ongoing
23:01 SPI RyanS OptLab n Setting up SPI 00:23
23:03 JAC Jennie LVEA YES JAC alignment ongoing
23:11 FAC Tyler, 2 contractors LVEA n Checking out HVAC equipment 23:36
23:25 JAC Betsy LVEA YES JAC allignment 00:06
23:26 SPI Jeff OptLab n SPI work 00:18
23:35 EE Tony, Fil LVEA N Grabbing Ladder 23:57
H1 SUS (SUS)
rahul.kumar@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:06, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89203)
2nd HRTS OM0 Optic-Prisms glued - for LHO

RyanC, Rahul

We glued prisms (primary - sapphire and secondary - metal) to the HRTS OM0 fused silica Optic, meant for LHO (D2100495-V5-OM0-02).

Attaching two pictures below for reference - they show the two prism glued to the barrel and the four magnet bases on the AR side of the optic.

I will post the details about its metrology later on.

---

OM0 optic meant for LLO has already been processed (i.e. prim glued) and shipped in Jan2026 - see alog 88786 for details.

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H1 AOS
sophie.muusse@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:13, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89200)
CHETA updates

S. Muusse, C. Compton, S. Goswami


We started populating and aligning optics on the second table. Most optics are now mounted and the beam is aligned upto M3 as per the fintrace model. We have aligned with the PD pick off in to save realignment later.

Construction begun on the camera can (D1300703) but did not get far as the screws which are fixed into the side panels (D2500165) are not long enough to reach the nuts attached to the other face of the box. Pictures of these components are attached.

We attached the viewport housing on the table which fits as expected. (photos attached)

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H1 PSL
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:11, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89202)
PSL Status Report Weekly FAMIS

Closes FAMIS#39752, last checked 89164


Laser Status:
    NPRO output power is 1.841W
    AMP1 output power is 70.47W
    AMP2 output power is 138.8W
    NPRO watchdog is GREEN
    AMP1 watchdog is GREEN
    AMP2 watchdog is GREEN
    PDWD watchdog is GREEN

PMC:
    It has been locked 0 days, 2 hr 51 minutes
    Reflected power = 26.95W
    Transmitted power = 104.0W
    PowerSum = 131.0W

FSS:
    It has been locked for 0 days 0 hr and 0 min
    TPD[V] = 0.4856V

ISS:
    The diffracted power is around 3.8%
    Last saturation event was 0 days 2 hours and 9 minutes ago


Possible Issues:
    PMC reflected power is high

LHO FMCS (PEM)
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:07, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89201)
HVAC Fan Vibrometers Check FAMIS

Closes FAMIS#39855, last checked 89138

Corner Station Fans (attachment1)
- All fans are looking normal and within range.

Outbuilding Fans (attachment2)
- All fans are looking normal and are within range.

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LHO VE
jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:37, Thursday 19 February 2026 - last comment - 16:07, Friday 06 March 2026(89199)
Leak Checking of the HAM7 +Y door ports and the Relay Tube

Now that HAM7 is at sufficient pressure (6.4E-7 Torr as of this post) we helium leak checked the two re-installed 12" CF blanks removed for table locking and the entire relay tube assembly which had been removed for the viewport adapter on HAM5.

The Helium background was unstable, so we turned on the HAM7 cleanroom (on 2/18 afternoon) to help flush the area of helium overnight.

Today the background stabilized around 1.5E-10 Torr-l/s, so we were able to continue leak checking. No significant helium signal observed above the leak detector background which hovered between 1.5&2E-10 Torr-l/s during leak checking. 

HAM7 continues to pump down with the turbopump, next steps are chamber RGA scans.

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jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - 16:48, Thursday 26 February 2026 (89292)

HAM7 RGA scans and scan information posted to T2600064. RGA is dirty, but the chamber comparison to last pumpdown (Mar 2024) is posted.

gerardo.moreno@LIGO.ORG - 06:32, Friday 27 February 2026 (89296)VE

Late entry.

Last Tuesday, 2/24/2026, HAM7 ion pump was introduced to the chamber's main volume, and currently the chamber is pumped with both; the ion pump and the turbo pump.  Attached is a trend snap of the chamber's pressure since the introduction of the ion pump.

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gerardo.moreno@LIGO.ORG - 16:07, Friday 06 March 2026 (89412)VE

Vent Recovery Update

On Wednesday (3/4/26) the turbo pump was isolated from HAM7 to leave the ion pump take care of the pumpdown. 

Since the ion pump was able to take of the pumpdown on its own, on Thursday the SS500 cart then was turned off, and eventually detached from the turbo pump at HAM7.  HAM7 is back to normal operations.

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H1 CDS
erik.vonreis@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:13, Thursday 19 February 2026 - last comment - 07:36, Friday 20 February 2026(89196)
h1ascimc restarted and DAQ restarted

DAQ was restarted around 12:02 PM  PST after restarting h1ascimc. 

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 07:36, Friday 20 February 2026 (89208)

There were some issues with the new code, so we reverted h1ascimc back to its original code at 13:40. We will try again next week.

When h1ascimc was restarted by itself, h1iopasc0 ran long and reported a DAC error, though on the 16bit-DAC MEDM there were no associated FIFO errors reported.

When h1ascimc was started as part of a complete model restart (rtcds start --all) this DAC error does not appear.

The DAC error is clearable by DIAG-RESET'ing the IOP, but we are unsure if the DAC is a cycle behind at this point. At the moment the safest restart if DAC errors appear is a full restart of all models.

H1 CDS (IOO, ISC)
jennifer.wright@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:24, Wednesday 18 February 2026 - last comment - 17:56, Thursday 19 February 2026(89188)
Update to JAC & IMC ASC models

Jennie W, Ryan S

 

Summary: Ryan and I updated the JAC and IMC ASC models. We installed JM3 yesterday and so now the IMC cannot use the PSL PZT mirror as an alignment actuator. I have committed the changes to the svn but erik and dave will do some checks tomorrow before they commit to the revision locked version of the model and restart the DAQ. So changes are not 'live' yet.


The edits were made to h1ascimc.mdl which has top level blocks for IMC and JAC.

The JAC top level model sends signals directly to the PSL PZT mirror and these degrees of freedom are swapped as the PSL PZT basis P and Y are switched before input to the JAC due to the HAM1 input periscope.

I took out the feedback paths for PZT_P and PZT_Y that come out of the IMC block. The picture shows the old config and I have highlighted what I removed.

At the top level, IMC no longer sends signals to the PZT but instead to JM3. On the top level diagram, the signal JM3_P is sent via PCI cards to the channel "H1ASC-JM3_YAW_SUSHTTS" as pitch in the JAC basis is yaw in the IMC basis due to the HAM1 output periscope. The picture shows the old config and I have highlighted what I swapped.

The signal JM3_Y is sent via PCI cards to the channel "H1ASC-JM3_PIT_SUSHTTS" as yaw in the JAC basis is pitch in the IMC basis due to the HAM1 output periscope.

Within the IMC top names block I removed the output channels for the PZT from the WFS feedback path, we already had paths to feedback to JM3 within this path. The picture shows the new config.

I removed the PZT locking path from the LCKIN block and replaced it with one for JM3. The picture shows the new config. I am not sure we ever use this path (which is for dither asc control of the IMC) in the first place so maybe this was unneccessary.

I also removed the channels H1:IMC-PZT_YAW_OUT and H1:IMC-PZT_PIT_OUT from the DAQ channel list for the IMC model.

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jennifer.wright@LIGO.ORG - 17:56, Thursday 19 February 2026 (89206)IOO, ISC

Jennie W, Dave B, EJ D, Erik V, Keita K, Daniel S, Jeff K, Olli P,

This morning I rebuilt the model again before it was restarted to add back in the IMC-PZT_PIT_OUT_DQ  and H1:IMC-PZT_YAW_OUT_DQ channels in the top level of h1ascimc so as to avoid removing these channels from the GDS broadcast channel list.

Unfortunately this change did not get propagated to the live model today (it was not built with the rev-locked tag). This caused some confusion when the model + DAQ restart happened ( alog #89196). I had forgotten to SDF the PZT sliders for IMC-PZT_OUT and so this mis-aligned the beam to the JAC. Keita brought this back by altering the IMC sliders and we were able to continue with optics work in HAM1.

 

On the CDS side, none of my changes from today or yesterday have been uploaded to the 'rev-locked version of the model so everything was restarted with the old model config from yesterday morning. We will aim to restart with model changes to h1ascimc (that I made last night and this morning) at sometime Monday morning.

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