TITLE: 06/09 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 114Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick
SHIFT SUMMARY:

H1's been locked over 12hrs & saw a few small earthquakes roll by thru the night, but nothing to worry about.  Did see Jupiter & three of its moons last night.  
LOG:

• 7:34 GRB Alert Received
  • Talked to LLO (they were down), messaged with Virgo that they received it (but then they also dropped out of lock.
  • 7:40 Determined this FERMI trigger's duration was too long (4.096sec), so will be ignoring and NOT Standing down.
• 8:32, 8:42, 9:17, 10:15 MX FMCS Alarms

H1 continues to hum along at ~115Mpc.  Have observed a few EQs come and go via Seismon, but none were worrisome.  

TITLE: 06/09 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 114Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Niko
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 10mph Gusts, 7mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.06 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1's humming along at a range a little higher than last night (~115Mpc) & going on 4.75hrs.  L1 is down so I'm going to rush and heat up some breakfast!

TITLE: 06/08 Eve Shift 23:00 – 07:00 (16:00-00:00), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Observing

INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey

SHIFT SUMMARY: Lost lock early on, did an initial alignment and relocked. Besides that, quiet night.

LOG:

23:00 (16:00) Start of shift

00:43 (17:43) Lockloss while I was making tea, seems like it was caused by a glitch

01:09 (18:09) Unable to lock PRMI, going to initial alignment

01:44 (18:44) Initial alignment complete, re-locking

02:35 (19:35) Accepting negligible sdf differences (~10^-14), going into Observing

07:00 (00:00) End of shift

Had an early lockloss at 00:43 (17:43) that seemed to knock us pretty far out of alignment, so I started an initial alignment and we went back to Observing at 02:35 (19:35). Still in Observing, wind is dying down and microseism is quite low.

I stepped out to get a cup of tea and found the IFO unlocked when I returned. The normal lockloss site is hitting an error somewhere early in the analysis, so I ran the analysis on an older version of the code (linked below). There is a glitch seen in ETMX L3 about ten seconds before lockloss, at which point SRC1 and SRC2 start to run away.

https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~yannick.lecoeuche/index.cgi?event=1244076207

Ops Shift Transition: 06/08/2019, Eve Shift 23:00 – 7:00 (16:00-00:00) - UTC (PT)

State of H1: Locked

Intent Bit: Observing

Weather: 20 mph wind, sunny

Primary 0.03 – 0.1Hz: 0.01 um/s

Secondary 0.1 – 0.3Hz: 0.08 um/s

Outgoing Operator: Patrick

Quick Summary: Locked ~25 hours, Observing 24. Wind is slightly up but aside from that not much going on.

TITLE: 06/08 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 114Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Niko
SHIFT SUMMARY: Remained locked and observing entire shift. Two GRB alerts. Four tours through control room.
LOG:

17:01 UTC GRB alert (E335639) Confirmed with LLO
Trigger ID: 581685668 Rel is 2, can be ignored?
Event time and submitted time appear almost 6 hours apart?

17:24 UTC Heard helicopter fly overhead. Confirmed on camera.

20:37 UTC GRB (E335666)
Trigger ID: 581719018
TRIGGER_DUR:     4.096 [sec]
Can be ignored

20:38 - 20:57 UTC Niko leading tour in CR
21:00 - 21:14 UTC Laurence leading tour in CR
21:14 - 21:26 UTC Jeff J. leading tour in CR
21:26 - 21:44 UTC Amber leading tour in CR

Have remained locked and in observing.

17:01 UTC GRB alert (E335639) Confirmed with LLO
Trigger ID: 581685668 Rel is 2, can be ignored?
Event time and submitted time appear almost 6 hours apart?

17:24 UTC Heard helicopter fly overhead. Confirmed on camera.

TITLE: 06/08 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 114Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 10mph Gusts, 7mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.07 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

No issues.

TITLE: 06/08 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 113Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Nice shift with H1.  H1's been locked for over 16.5hrs (mostly hovering around 113Mpc).  Earth was mostly cooperative even with earthquakes which have been turning out to be below marginal (nothing elevated enough to come on the Verbal Alarm).
LOG:

• 9:00 - 9:15 GRB Stand Down Time
• 10:50 Noticed an EQ on SEISMON which was incoming (magnitude 5 north of australia---on EQ repsonse plot it was not deemed worrisome, but I still monitored). 
  • 11:02 Small bump on NDSCOPE, and CPS strip tool channel showed little oscillation.
  • 11:06 Small spike on SEIS BLRMS on wall.
  • Did Nothing
• 11:11 Notice on SEISMON another EQ in same area (5.1 mag).  But it was no big deal.

Fairly smooth sailing.  H1's been locked for 13hrs.

Noticed a couple of EQs via SEISMON, but so far they appear benign.  (but currently monitoring/waiting for one right now).

Only because we have a new procedure for how Operators handle GRB notifications, thought I would document how it has been going (first time I tried this a few days ago, it easily took me about 30-40min, but that was my first try &  I had to open up new webpages and really go through this multi-page procedure.)

Anyway, here is how tonight went, and luckily, my browser had previous webpages saved, so I was able to jump to appropriate ones fairly easily. 

GRB Log:

• 9:00:54 Received for E335605 aka 581659554:  H1, L1 Observing & V1 locking
• 9:01 LLO contact me.  We both received alert.  Said I was going to begin looking thru procedure.  Since we did not hear Virgo, I said I'd post a note in the chat window for them to possibly catch (I didn't know they were down when we were on teamspeak at this time).
• 9:05:30 Took me about 4-5min to go through procedure to determine this required a Stand Down of 15min.
• 9:15 Stand Down time Ends
• 9:24 Posted this alog.

Notes/Observations:

• GraceDB defaults my search for Super Events.  So should include in procedure that one must click on "Events" + hit "Search" button to find event on GraceDB.
• Would be nice to make a wiki page, or digital interface so operator can quickly click on the links needed to follow procedure.  The long links on my hard copy would take some time to get to if this was my first time.
• Maybe a flow diagram would be more succinct/less complicated than this 7-page procedure for GRBs?

TITLE: 06/08 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 112Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Niko
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 6mph Gusts, 4mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.10 μm/s

Microseism once again dipping down into the doldrums.  Winds are low, and the moon looked beautiful.  Spotted "Pokey" the Porcupine as I walked by the Beam Tube exhibit into the Control Room.
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1 locked for almost 9hrs with BNS range which has been hovering right around 113 Mpc.  H1's running 5 by 5 along with L1 & V1.

TITLE: 06/03 Eve Shift 23:00 – 07:00 (16:00-00:00), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Observing

INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey

SHIFT SUMMARY: Quiet evening, stayed in Observing, had a GRB early on

LOG:

23:00 (16:00) Start of shift

00:12 (17:12) GRB (E335563)

07:00 (00:00) End of shift

Quiet shift so far. The wind has died down, and there was a GRB at 00:12 (17:12).

The plots show 2 months of data, and violin modes that aren't necessarily high enough to get our attention, but their overall trend for 2 months is that they are increasing.

• ITMY modes 17, 18
• ITMX modes 13, 19
• ETMY modes 1, 6, 12, 18

Ops Shift Transition: 06/07/2019, Eve Shift 23:00 – 7:00 (16:00-00:00) - UTC (PT)

State of H1: Locked

Intent Bit: Observing

Weather: 20-25 mph wind, cloudy

Primary 0.03 – 0.1Hz: 0.01 um/s

Secondary 0.1 – 0.3Hz: 0.08 um/s

Outgoing Operator: Ed

Quick Summary: Ed relocked recently after a wind spike knocked us out. Locked now for 1 hour.

Handing off to Niko

TITLE: 06/07 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 115Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Niko
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LOG:

• Two tour groups in the control room today

20:22 Kyle out to MY

20:22 Christina headed to Mid stations

20:51 Lockloss - high winds + a little rain (40-50mph)

20:53 Kyle back

20:57 gonna try locking

22:19 H1 back to Observing

22:25 PNNL tour group into CR

22:55 Squeezer unlocked and intention bit commissioning