TITLE: 03/16 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 150Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 19mph Gusts, 13mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.06 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.38 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 14:00 UTC (40 min lock)

According to Corey's OWL alog 83394, H1 called Corey for help with SQZ but guardian managed to automatically lock by the time he was set up.

Wind is looking much better than yesterday. Microseism has gone down a bit and leveled off.

As I was trying to get set-up, I could see that H1 was in the INJECT SQUEEZING state (after a lockloss about 3.25hrs ago) .  So I was getting ready to focus on squeezing), but within a minute or two H1 was back to Observing automatically!  Perhaps this was a timer wake up call from being out for so long, because on Verbal, everything looked normal for H1 for the reacquisition.  Going to feed the dog breakfast (and go back to sleep...hopefully).

TITLE: 03/16 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 147Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: High winds kept H1 down for the first part of the shift, but they eventually died down enough to allow H1 to relock. After relocking, the SQZ angle servo kept railing, so I have turned it off in case it would cause problems overnight. H1 has been locked for 2 hours.

• 23:30 - Attempting to lock H1 with winds having slightly calmed
• 03:10 - Reached NLN
• SQZ angle servo kept railing, taking H1 in and out of observing four times in total (alog83391)
• 03:39 - Observing with stable SQZ angle servo
• 05:02 - Dropped observing for 30 seconds to load SQZ_MANAGER and SQZ_ANG_ADJUST [Tagging SQZ]
  • Updated sqzparams.py to set use_sqz_ang_adjust to False and nominal state of SQZ_ANG_ADJUST to 'DOWN'
  • Currently set to 166 deg (where the servo last had it)

After 14 hours of downtime, the winds have died down enough to allow H1 to lock and resume observing as of 03:17 UTC. Spent a few extra minutes in OMC_WHITENING to damp down some slightly rung-up violin modes.

As has been happening in the past few lock acquisitions, a few minutes after reaching NLN, the SQZ angle servo railed, so I reset it with SQZ_MANAGER and started observing. Tagging SQZ

...as I was typing this the SQZ angle railed again, so I again reset it. Out of observing for one minute starting at 03:21 UTC.

There was an instance towards the start of a lock stretch overnight where the SQZ angle railed and did not fix itself until 22 minutes later, all while H1 remained observing with BNS range between 40-80 Mpc.

The SQZ angle railed at 08:10:01 UTC, SQZ_MANAGER showed a notification "SQZ angle is out of range. If SQZ looks bad, request RESET_SQZ_ASC_FDS and then FREQ_DEP_SQZ", and the BNS range dropped to around 42 Mpc. At the end of my shift last night, the same thing happened and I was able to reset the angle and return to observing (alog83384), but no one was actively monitoring H1 at this time, so the SQZ angle remained railed at 276.86 deg until it flipped to 0 deg 7 minutes later and the range improved to around 80 Mpc. Then, 13 minutes after that at 08:30:55 UTC, the SQZ angle finally starts moving positive, eventually settling around 180 deg and recovering the BNS range back to about 160 Mpc. The SQZ angle stayed steady for the rest of the lock. The SQZ Guardians did not change states during this time of poor range, and I can't glean from the logs what may have been the issue here.

TITLE: 03/15 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Wind
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is LOCKING in ENVIRONMENT

IFO is extremely unstable due to the wind, which during the shift has gone between 30mph 50mph. We have been unable to lock all day, and will likely only be able to relock after 5PM local time (forecasted beginning of the end for gusts).

I stayed in IDLE for times where we were incessantly losing lock but tried locking 3 times when there was a slight lull, which got us up to MAX_POWER, before losing lock again due to wind. (Midshift Report Alog 83387).

Attached is the current state of the EY wind fence. The left pane is totally torn and slid to the left side as seen.

Microseism is also on the rise while EQ activity is low.

LOG:

TITLE: 03/15 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Wind
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: USEISM
    Wind: 32mph Gusts, 16mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.07 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.43 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: H1 has been down most of they day due to high winds. Gusts are starting to slowly calm down, so we're attempting to lock now.

• Microseism elevated around 95th percentile
• All other systems nominal

We had a small lull in wind speeds and I was able to get to MAX_POWER, but then it picked back up and we lost lock. If the wind continuiies to increase, I will sit in IDLE again until the wind comes down. Forecast is now showing wind to continue until 18:00 Local Time.

Both LLO and LHO are unlocked so no calibration sweeps have been taken.

Sat Mar 15 10:08:11 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 8secs

TITLE: 03/15 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Aligning
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 45mph Gusts, 31mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.09 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.45 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is LOCKING at INITIAL_ALIGNMENT

H1 was doing an initial alignment when I entered. Wind speeds are extremeley high (50mph), with microseism increasing in the last 8 hours.

We will likely not be able to lock until wind calms down, which is only forecast to happen in a few hours/once wind gets below 30mph.

TITLE: 03/15 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 143Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: Mostly quiet shift with one lockloss and a fully automated relock. I also had to reset the SQZ angle when it ran away. H1 has been locked for 20 minutes.

• 23:17 - Observing
• 03:42 - EQ lockloss - alog83382
• 04:46 - Observing
• 04:49 - Dropped observing when SQZ_MANAGER reported the SQZ angle was out of range, so I requested 'RESET_SQZ_ASC_FDS' as directed by the notification then back to 'FREQ_DEP_SQZ' [Tagging SQZ]
  • Before I saw the Guardian notification and I decided to drop observing, DARM looked like SQZ was only injecting noise and range dropped to 70Mpc while still in observing. Would this have stayed like this until someone intervened? Should this be automated to fix this if it happens overnight, even if it means briefly dropping observing?
• 04:51 - Observing

Lockloss @ 03:42 UTC - link to lockloss tool

M5.5 earthquake out of southern Mexico (seismon lists this as nearby Guatemala). Entered earthquake mode one minute before the lockloss, although peakmon only reached up to around 600 counts.

Ryan S, Ibrahim, Oli, Sheila, Camilla, Mayank

Problem: The ADF_OMC_TRANS_SQZ_ANG (ADF readback of Sqz angle) was not linear with the SQZ angle (~ SQZ-CLF_REFL_RF6_PHASE_PHASEDEG).

What we tried so far?

1. We played with different combinations of ADF_VCXO phase and ADF demod phases to see if we can get linearity between these two channels however it did not work. (See Figure 1)
2. We plotted parametric ADF_I and ADF_Q for various Demod phases. Ideally this curve should be an ellipse centered around (0,0). However the ellipse we got was shifted from (0,0). (Figure 2 part A). { The ellipticity of the ellipse depends on the amount of squeezing and the location on the ellipse determines the squeezing angle}

What we did ?

1. We calculated the required offsets (ADF_OFFSET_I and ADF_OFFSET_Q) so that the ellipse can be centered around zero.
2. We calculated the G (4.5) value from the ellipse and used this normalization constant of ADF_Q to turn the ellipse into a circle.
3. Calculated the new ADF readback of sqz angle values after numerically adjusting the offsets and normalization and verified that it indeed is linear over a wide range of squeezing angle. (It is matches well with squeezing angle, see Figure 3 )   
4. Added all these changes to the model and scanned the RF6 demod phase to verify that the ADF readback values now closely follow the squeezing angle. (see Figure 4) and Figure 5 shows the ADF_I and ADF_Q demod plot (Ideally it should be a circle )
5. We modified the SQZ_ANG_ADJUST.py  (Fig 6):  We found that the ADF_OMC_TRANS_SQZ_ANG = -95 for the optimum Squeezing and added it as the setpoint. The servo locked with these changes .

We may further tweak the parameters to improve the ADF performance.

Following alog 83343 (transmission VS AOI of a mirror that's supposed to be O3 ZM2), Rahul and I did a similar measurement for the old ZM1 for P-pol at 1064nm. Unlike "ZM2 optic", this one looks good.

Currently, proposed layout for POPX TT looks to have the AOI between 30 and 35 deg, and an alternate proposal is somewhat larger than that but smaller than 45 deg. Either way this old ZM1 optic will work.

The first two attachments show the experimental setup. The entire TT assembly was put on a rotational stage. The TT suspension was locked during the measurement.

Before and after the measurements, the power of the beam impinging ZM1 was 293mW and 289mW respectively, so I used 2.9e-1W as the input.

AOI close to but not quite retro-reflection (our reference point) was estimated to be ~1.4deg by measuring the distance (~1+-1/8") between the incoming and the reflected beam ~21" away from the mirror surface: (1+-1/8)/21/2 * 180/pi = 1.4+-0.2 deg. (The reason why it's not set to zero+-0.2deg is because of silly mechanical interference we didn't bother to fix.)

At 45.4deg AOI, the beam might have been very close to the back of (or even getting clipped by) the adjustment screw for the eddy current damping magnet. I wasn't able to see the beam (1.7uW of blob is hard to see for anybody) so it's unclear. At least the beam position on the HR surface looked OK, so if the beam is clipped by the adjustment screw it might be unnecessarily long. I'll have another look with IR sensitive camera on Monday.

FAMIS 26367, last checked in alog83146

Infrequent and erratic motion seen on EX fan 2, as has been noted on past checks. All other fans behaving normally within noise thresholds.

Ryan S, Sheila, Camilla

Ryan found that ISC_LOCK was waiting fo SQZ_MANGER to get to FDS in INJECT_SQUEEZING, but SQZ_MANGER will not get there as is waiting for ISC_LOCK (the SQZ_ANG_SERVO won't start until after OMC_WHITENING). This was wasting time. Made the attached edit and ISC_LOCK moved through INJECT_SQUEEZING much quicker.

TITLE: 03/14 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 23:14 UTC (2 min lock!)

A  calm shift with a very successful comissioning period where we were locked for the entire 6 hour comissioning block.

Our 22 hour lock was lost due to an ETM Glitch (lockloss alog 83375).

A summary of comissoning activities (alogs if possible):

1. SQZ: alog 83370 by SQZ Team (Camilla, Sheila, Mayank)

2. OPS: A2L Script alog 83373

3, PEM: Injections + Measurements (Robert)

4. ISC: Modulation Depth Step up/down (Elenna)

LOG:

TITLE: 03/14 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 8mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.29 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: H1 just made it back to low noise as of 23:14 UTC after a fully automatic relock with an initial alignment.

• Wind low, microseism steady around 75th percentile
• All other systems nominal