TITLE: 07/06 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 116Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Cheryl
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Very nice shift for H1 with smooth running and only a small EQ which was not an issue at all. Ended the shift with excitement from a possible BBH candidate with all three detectors online.
LOG:
TITLE: 07/06 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 117Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 13mph Gusts, 9mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.05 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.07 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: locked in Observe
H1's been locked for 6+hrs. Monitored a 5.1 EQ from New Zealand roll through, but did not need to take any action.
TITLE: 07/06 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 116Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 6mph Gusts, 3mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.08 μm/s
Somewhat quiet seismically with the CA 7.1 EQ 12hrs in the past. Winds are calm.
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 humming along just under 120Mpc. Something new from last time I was on shift a week ago are noisy periods for DARM blrms for the 500-1k & 1k-2k bands (attached) for multiple minutes at a time.
TITLE: 07/06 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC STATE of H1: Observing at 116Mpc INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey SHIFT SUMMARY: Cheryl stayed to help move the MC mirrors, IM mirrors, and PZT back. Earthquakes seem to have settled for now. Ran through initial alignment. LOG: 10:46 UTC Starting locking 11:01 UTC ALS X and Y arms locked after moving both ETMS and TMS 11:05 UTC Something strange is going on with find IR. TRX and TRY are flashing. 11:10 UTC Trying initial alignment Initial alignment done 11:38 UTC Find IR is acting normal now. Lockloss from CARM_TO_TR 12:43 UTC Observing 12:45 UTC GRB E337850 Stand down Confirmed with LLO
12:43 UTC Observing SDF differences attached.
Cheryl stayed to help move the MC mirrors, IM mirrors, and PZT back. Earthquakes seem to have settled for now. Have just started relocking. Something strange is going on with find IR.
Trying initial alignment.
TITLE: 07/06 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Seismic
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Cheryl
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 12mph Gusts, 11mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.41 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: Unlocked. Riding through earthquakes.
TITLE: 07/06 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Seismic
INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick
SHIFT SUMMARY: locked until earthquakes in California
LOG: al times in UTC
TO DO:
Unfortunately, there have been a number of large EQs is California, so H1 is not locked, and I set the Y axis seismic BLRMS's on nuc5 to 1000, when they're typically 3 and 13, in order to capture the peak ground motion activity.
AND... while I was writing that, the IMC locked, with MC1 tripped, taking the IMC to DOWN, and will check the position of the IMC mirrors, since the WFS are engaged with a tripped optic.
ALSO... I went to VERY LARGE EQ as things began to trip, and HAM3 and HAM6 ISIs did not trip, because they made it to DAMPED!
TITLE: 07/05 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 115Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 14mph Gusts, 12mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.08 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: locked in Observe, a smal EQ came through, as seen on the ASC, with a glitch in range, plot attached
TITLE: 07/05 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 116Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Cheryl
SHIFT SUMMARY: After recovery from the lock loss just before my shift, it has been smooth sailing. Almost 7hour lock.
LOG:
After the handoff from Patrick at DRMI, it made it up to DC Readout and then lost lock. The guardian then when through the whole process again without me touching anything.
More SDFs than usual. Normal high precision for PSL ISS and SUS ETMY, as well as the ASC RF36 Q offsets. The odd one was the IMC-MCL_FM_TRIG_THRESH_ON/OFF
TITLE: 07/05 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Earthquake
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 2mph Gusts, 1mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.05 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.09 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: DRMI locked, moving up in the lock aquisition.
TITLE: 07/05 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC STATE of H1: Earthquake INCOMING OPERATOR: TJ SHIFT SUMMARY: Two locklosses from observing, both coincident with earthquakes. Relocked after first with little intervention. Ran initial alignment after second, after trouble relocking. Lockloss from CARM_TO_TR. LOG: 06:48 UTC Restarted video2 08:15 UTC GRB E337767 584007338 Stand Down Confirmed with LLO INJ_TRANS guardian is already at INJECT_KILL 11:14 UTC Lock loss. Seismon reports earthquakes in the U.S. 11:17 UTC Set SEI_CONF to EARTH_QUAKE. 11:26 UTC Set SEI_CONF to WINDY. 12:28 UTC Observing 12:57 UTC Lock loss. Occurred while I was out of control room. Looks like another earthquake. 13:04 UTC Watchdogs tripping 13:05 UTC Set SEI_CONF to EARTH_QUAKE, although it is probably too late. 13:13 UTC Finished resetting watchdogs 13:16 UTC Set SEI_CONF to WINDY. adjusted ETMY for ALS Strange, verbal alarms went to ACQUIRE_PRMI from ACQUIRE_DRMI_1F and then back to ALIGN_RECYCLING_MIRRORS by itself DRMI is not locking, despite PRMI locking Lockloss to DOWN while trying to lock DRMI Multiple lock losses from locking ALS 14:17 UTC Trying initial alignment 14:42 UTC Initial alignment done Adjusted COMM_OFFSET at CHECK_IR Lockloss from CARM_TO_TR
11:14 UTC Lockloss coincident with earthquakes 12:28 UTC Observing SDF differences attached