Famis 27546 Inspect quarterly trends of HWWD bits for indication of negative function.
I believe I'm just looking for channels that have no bit switching (motion) on them, which would indicate that the HWWD is no longer working properly.
First image is how the trends display on the ndscope, it's a bit hard to see all of the channels here.
But in the second image I just scaled the channels by enough to see that there is motion on all 4 channels.
ETMX HWWD apparently has the least amount of HWWD bit switching action, but there are bits being switched.
But ETMY has been a bit busy switching bits!
TITLE: 11/10 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 147Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 0mph Gusts, 0mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.36 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 Has been locked for 11 hours.
Everything here looks good.... Range is on the lower side.
I'm about to run Sheila's script to change the OFI Temp since we have had a few locks that have been above 10 hours already.
Will report back.
Running the OFI Temp Stepper script.
I wasn't sure how long to run it for, so I just ran it for 1 hour.
anthony.sanchez@cdsws25: python OFI_temp_stepper.py --duration 1 -s 1446773500
Waiting for start time...
starting temp setting: 35.0
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 32
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 29
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 26
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 23
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 20
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 37
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 39
H1:IOO-OFI_TEC_SETTEMP => 35.0
done!
TITLE: 11/10 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 145Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Tony
SHIFT SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 13:27 UTC (11 hr lock)
Microseism is very (very) slowly trending down. Wind looks good.
Only thing of note is that Cal Inj EY (H1:CAL-INJ_CW_OUTPUT) turned off for 3 minutes, which dropped us out of observing for that time (19:17 UTC to 19:30 UTC). It came back autoamtically. I found another instance of this happening in August - Ryan C's alog 86399. Tagging CAL, Tagging CDS.
LOG:
None
Closes FAMIS 27509, last checked in alog 87296
Similar results to last week with 12 T240 masses out of range compared to last month's 13. Same results for STS.
Averaging Mass Centering channels for 10 [sec] ...
2025-11-09 13:18:07.263464
There are 12 T240 proof masses out of range ( > 0.3 [V] )!
ETMX T240 2 DOF X/U = -1.566 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = -1.576 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = -0.951 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -2.22 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.466 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -2.34 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF X/U = -1.07 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = -2.835 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.353 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.431 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Y/V = -0.453 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Z/W = -0.761 [V]
All other proof masses are within range ( < 0.3 [V] ):
ETMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.034 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.086 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.1 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.076 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.11 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.091 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.014 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.16 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.21 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF X/U = -0.092 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.195 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.002 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF X/U = 0.224 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.012 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.116 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.26 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.16 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.256 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.217 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.098 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.103 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.051 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.108 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.026 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.018 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.216 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.118 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.068 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.106 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.149 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.063 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.147 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.037 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.176 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.29 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF X/U = -0.23 [V]
Assessment complete.
Averaging Mass Centering channels for 10 [sec] ...
2025-11-09 13:18:19.262567
There are 2 STS proof masses out of range ( > 2.0 [V] )!
STS EY DOF X/U = -4.593 [V]
STS EY DOF Z/W = 2.266 [V]
All other proof masses are within range ( < 2.0 [V] ):
STS A DOF X/U = -0.436 [V]
STS A DOF Y/V = -0.917 [V]
STS A DOF Z/W = -0.49 [V]
STS B DOF X/U = 0.167 [V]
STS B DOF Y/V = 0.938 [V]
STS B DOF Z/W = -0.364 [V]
STS C DOF X/U = -0.708 [V]
STS C DOF Y/V = 0.764 [V]
STS C DOF Z/W = 0.522 [V]
STS EX DOF X/U = -0.201 [V]
STS EX DOF Y/V = -0.136 [V]
STS EX DOF Z/W = 0.122 [V]
STS EY DOF Y/V = 1.246 [V]
STS FC DOF X/U = 0.188 [V]
STS FC DOF Y/V = -1.118 [V]
STS FC DOF Z/W = 0.629 [V]
Assessment complete.
Closes FAMIS 27538, last checked in alog 87902
Laser Status:
NPRO output power is 1.85W
AMP1 output power is 70.63W
AMP2 output power is 139.9W
NPRO watchdog is GREEN
AMP1 watchdog is GREEN
AMP2 watchdog is GREEN
PDWD watchdog is GREEN
PMC:
It has been locked 9 days, 23 hr 29 minutes
Reflected power = 24.68W
Transmitted power = 106.3W
PowerSum = 131.0W
FSS:
It has been locked for 0 days 8 hr and 51 min
TPD[V] = 0.5364V
ISS:
The diffracted power is around 4.2%
Last saturation event was 0 days 8 hours and 53 minutes ago
Possible Issues:
PMC reflected power is high
Sun Nov 09 10:01:51 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 1min 50secs
Very quick fill today, discharge line pressure was above nominal in the hour preceding the fill.
TITLE: 11/09 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 145Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 4mph Gusts, 2mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.43 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 13:27 UTC
Wind looks good. Microseism still high.
08:14 UTC lockloss from a 6.6 from Japan,
08:23 ETMY and TMSY SUS and ISI watchdogs tripped.
08:33 UTC ETMY HEPI WD tripped
I untripped SUS, put it in DAMPED, untripped the ISI then lastly the HEPI.
A 6.4 from the same area came through ~ 40 minutes later. Everythings untripped and looks ok
09:40 UTC I reenabled remote so it can wait out the motion.
TITLE: 11/09 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 145Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 13mph Gusts, 10mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.51 μm/s
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LHO's IFO H1 has been locked for 14+ hours.
I did drop us from Observing at 5:46 to change a Violin damping setting that was being turned off by the Violin Damping Guardian.
Took the Violin Guardian to Damping on simple. Set the Damping that I wanted for ITMX Mode2: gain to -15, then selected Damping Violins full Power.
Got back to Observing at 5:47 UTC.
This setting seems to work wonderfully! IXm2 is dropping like a rock & the DCPD's are converging nicely.
Wind forcast looks great for the night.
LOG:
No Log
TITLE: 11/09 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 146Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 13mph Gusts, 9mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.51 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 has been locked for 9+ hours, everything seems to be running well.
Wind forcast looks great as well!
TITLE: 11/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 147Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Tony
SHIFT SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 15:26 UTC (9 hr lock!)
IFO was locked for the entire shift. CAL sweep was done after SE standdown in coordination with LLO (alog 88016)
5 2nd Sat tours went great!
LOG:
None
Ran a successful coordinated CAL sweep with LLO. We waited ~1hr after the SE standown so sweep was done ~12:15 PM Local
BB Start: 1446668440
BB End: 1446668752
Simulines Start: 1446668866
Simulines End: 1446670223
2025-11-08 20:50:06,504 | INFO | It is SAFE TO RETURN TO OBSERVING now, whilst data is processed.
2025-11-08 20:50:06,504 | INFO | Commencing data processing.
2025-11-08 20:50:06,504 | INFO | Ending lockloss monitor. This is either due to having completed the measurement, and this functionality being terminated; or because the whole process was aborted.
2025-11-08 20:50:42,733 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/DARMOLG_SS/DARMOLG_SS_20251108T202728Z.hdf5
2025-11-08 20:50:42,741 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/PCALY2DARM_SS/PCALY2DARM_SS_20251108T202728Z.hdf5
2025-11-08 20:50:42,746 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L1_SS/SUSETMX_L1_SS_20251108T202728Z.hdf5
2025-11-08 20:50:42,751 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L2_SS/SUSETMX_L2_SS_20251108T202728Z.hdf5
2025-11-08 20:50:42,756 | INFO | File written out to: /ligo/groups/cal/H1/measurements/SUSETMX_L3_SS/SUSETMX_L3_SS_20251108T202728Z.hdf5
PST: 2025-11-08 12:50:42.885356 PST
UTC: 2025-11-08 20:50:42.885356 UTC
GPS: 1446670260.885356
Sat Nov 08 10:04:31 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 4min 28secs
TITLE: 11/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 3mph Gusts, 1mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.43 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 15:26 UTC
Wind is down and microseism looks to be coming down.
Coordinated CAL sweep today at 11:30 with LLO but otherwise plans are to keep observing!
TITLE: 11/08 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY:
H1 has been locked and Observing for my Entire shift! YAY!
Violins have come down aswell. I have had 0 issues all night.
Wind forcast looks great for over night & secondary microseism seems to be falling.
Looks like it may be a great weekend for Observing.
LOG:
No log
MY vac gauge PT243 fired up 16:30 Friday which cleared the CDS ALARMS. I have rescinded the cell phone bypass for this channel.
TITLE: 11/07 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim & TJ
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: USEISM
Wind: 20mph Gusts, 12mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.05 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.61 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 is currently in Nominal_Low_Noise @ 00:02:23 UTC.
Observing reached at 00:03:27 UTC
An Initial_Alignment was ran just before this lock attempt.
The lock befoe this had Violins so high they were "off the chart", but this lock the Violins seem only moderately rung up.
Notes:
Sheila has written a script to step the OFI Temp, and would like it to be ran after calibration tomorrow if we have been locked all night.
M. Todd, S. Dwyer
As derived in previous alogs, we are able to relate the HOM spacing observed in each arm to the surface defocus of the test masses -- which is a combination of self-heating and ring heater power (ignoring CO2 affects on the ITM RoC). From the fits we've made of the HOM spacing / surface defocus change as a function of ring heater power we can get a value for the ring heater to surface defocus coupling factor.
Theoretically from this we should be able to solve for the self heating contribution in the test masses as well -- allowing us to constrain things like the coupling of absorbed power to surface defocus at the ITMs if we assume to know the arm power and absorption values (from HWS).
If we assume no absorption in ETMs (obviously not physical), and we assume the HWS values for the ITM absorptions are correct, then with a HOM spacing measurement from each arm we can get an upper limit of the coupling factor of self-heating to surface defocus for each ITM (they shouldn't be different but this is a good exercise).
Assuming alpha is the absorption coefficient, i subscript is for the ITM, and x/y is which arm. P_y,i_rh is the itmy ring-heater. G-factors are the product of ITM and ETM g-factors. Then from the formula in section 1.2 of the notes file : Gy = Gyc - B*L*gyic*(Pyerh+Pyirh) - L*(Ai*alpha_yi*Pyarm*gyec + beta*Ai*alpha_e*Pyarm*gyic), we can solve for Ai which is the coupling factor of self-heating to surface defocus.
| Parameter | Value | Notes |
| alpha_x,i | 430 ppm | from alog 76937 |
| alpha_y,i | 375 ppm | from alog 76937 |
| alpha_x,e | 0 ppm | |
| alpha_y,e | 0 ppm | |
| P_y,i_rh | 0.000 W | T0 = 1417899757 |
| P_x,i_rh | 0.850 W | |
| P_x,e_rh | 1.950 W | |
| P_y,e_rh | 2.146 W | |
| P_yarm |
385159 W
|
T0 = 1417899757 |
| P_xarm | 385159 | T0 = 1417899757 |
| Gx | 0.8149 | T0 = 1417899757 |
| Gy | 0.8198 |
TMS * pi G = cos2 ( ---------------- ) FSR |
| Ai_y | -26 uD/W | |
| Ai_x | -39 uD/W |
If we assume quoted absorption in ETMs (measured by LIGO, on galaxy), and we assume the HWS values for the ITM absorptions are correct, then with a HOM spacing measurement from each arm we can get a more realistic value of the coupling factor of self-heating to surface defocus for each ITM (they shouldn't be different but this is a good exercise).
Assuming alpha is the absorption coefficient, i subscript is for the ITM, and x/y is which arm. P_y,i_rh is the itmy ring-heater. G-factors are the product of ITM and ETM g-factors. Then from the formula in the notes file : Gy = Gyc - B*L*gyic*(Pyerh+Pyirh) - L*(Ai*alpha_yi*Pyarm*gyec + beta*Ai*alpha_e*Pyarm*gyic), we can solve for Ai which is the coupling factor of self-heating to surface defocus.
| Parameter | Value | Notes |
| alpha_x,i | 430 ppm | from alog 76937 |
| alpha_y,i | 375 ppm | from alog 76937 |
| alpha_x,e | 200 ppm | |
| alpha_y,e | 210 ppm | |
| P_y,i_rh | 0.000 W | T0 = 1417899757 |
| P_x,i_rh | 0.850 W | |
| P_x,e_rh | 1.950 W | |
| P_y,e_rh | 2.146 W | |
| P_yarm |
385159 W
|
T0 = 1417899757 |
| P_xarm | 385159 | T0 = 1417899757 |
| Gx | 0.8149 | T0 = 1417899757 |
| Gy | 0.8198 |
TMS * pi G = cos2 ( ---------------- ) FSR |
| Ai_y | -16 uD/W | |
| Ai_x | -26 uD/W |
Both of these values indicate there is certainly an overestimation of the self-heating impact on surface defocus.
For reference, the current TCS-SIM values for this coupling factor are Ai_y = Ai_x = -36.5 uD/W. More examination is required into this.
Links to previous alogs:
Absorption values here should be ppb, not ppm.
I've attached the plot using all the data collected to make a fit for the ring heater impact on surface defocus of the End Test Mass. Note, the definition of the coupling factor in this plot is half of the convention used in most documents (i.e. 1/R = 1/Rcold + B*Prh)
Reassuringly, this lines up well with TCS calibration of ringheater on surface deformation [T1400685].