H1 humming w/ a 7+hr lock and range around 55Mpc.

Road through an EQ around 8:09utc (5.3 Uganda quake).

TITLE: 07/30 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 52Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 10mph Gusts, 8mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.08 μm/s

Nice & quiet with useism at it's continued low from last few nights with little winds.  The moonset on the shoulder of Rattlesnake just before the strike of midnight was beautiful.
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1 locked for 3.5hrs w/ a range just under 55Mpc.  DARM shows visible higher order harmonics of the violin fundamental (as seen last night), but since everything else looks ok, will not proactively address violins. 

~7:22utc While Patrick & I were chatting happened to notice glitches on DARM, and while typing this write up, it's interesting to see a few minutes of glitches on the h(t) triggers tool.  Basicaly glitches start around 150Hz and sweep down to about 50Hz.  (snapshot attached).

TITLE: 07/29 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 53Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Spent about 2.5 hours damping violin modes at NLN before losing lock and having the fundamentals ring back up again. I decided it might be best to go directly to observing after getting back to NLN despite the violin modes.

LOG:

23:37 UTC Rick, Peter and Jian in staging building working on PMC
23:42 UTC Lock loss
Guardian lost connection to a channel in the middle of DRMI_ASC_OFFLOAD. Hit stop and then exec. PRC1, SRC1 and SRC2 Yaw started diverging. Sheila recovered them.
00:36 UTC NLN
00:38 UTC Rick, Peter and Jian leaving
03:07 UTC Lock loss (was sitting at NLN damping violin modes)
03:34 UTC Stuck at ENGAGE_SOFT_LOOPS. Soft loops not converging? OMC also not locking on the right mode.
03:35 UTC Requested ENGAGE_SOFT_LOOPS. Lock loss.
04:02 UTC NLN. Fundamental violin modes rung back up. Setting to observing.
04:18 UTC PI mode 27 rang up and damped on its own.

I used Conlog to find the violin mode damping filter settings at July 6 2017 06:00:00 UTC. According to the summary pages we were locked and in observing at that time. According to the USGS the 5.8 Montana earthquake occurred July 6 2017 06:30:17 UTC.

I have double checked the gains and degrees of freedom. It might be worth double checking the filters, as these were less straightforward to find.

ETMX
Filters, Gain, DOF
Mode 1: 505.587 +60deg 100dB, +5, P
Mode 2: 505.707 +60deg 100dB, 0, P
Mode 3: 505.707-505.710 100dB, +10, P
Mode 4: 505.805 +60deg 100dB, -89.9315, P
Mode 5: 506.922 100dB, +3, P
Mode 6: 507.159-507.194 +60deg 100dB 'N507.391,506.922', -100, P
Mode 7: 507.194New +60deg 100dB, +15, P
Mode 8: 507.391 100dB, +5, P
Mode 9: -60deg 100dB 1004.537, +1, P
Mode 10: BB1003.6-1003.9 -60deg 100dB, +3, P

ETMY
Filters, Gain, DOF
Mode 1: 100dB 1009.44-1009.49, +15, P
Mode 2: 508.010 100dB, -40, P
Mode 3: 508.146New 100dB, -20, P
Mode 4: 508.206New +60deg 100dB, -20, P
Mode 5: 508.220 +60deg 100dB, -40, P
Mode 6: 508.289N +60deg 100dB +12deg, +500, P
Mode 7: 508.585 +60deg 100dB, -60, P
Mode 8: 508.661 +60deg 100dB, -500, P
Mode 9: -60deg 100dB 1009.02, 0, P
Mode 10: 100dB +30deg5k 4735, 0, P

ITMX
Filters, Gain, DOF
Mode 1: 500.05 +60deg 100dB, +50, P
Mode 2: 500.212 100dB, +100, P
Mode 3: 501.091 -60deg 100dB, +100, P
Mode 4: 501.208 100dB, +10, P
Mode 5: 501.256 100dB, +100, P
Mode 6: 501.452 100dB, +100, P
Mode 7: 502.621 240dB, +50, P
Mode 8: 502.744 +60deg 240dB, +10, P
Mode 9: -60deg 100dB 992.43, -10, P
Mode 10: -60deg 100dB 994.277, -10, P

ITMY
Filters, Gain, DOF
Mode 1: 501.606 -60deg 100dB, +20, P
Mode 2: 501.680 -60deg 100dB, +200, P
Mode 3: 501.749 100dB, +200, P
Mode 4: 501.811 100dB N501.749, -100, P
Mode 5: 503.007 +60deg 100dB, +100, P
Mode 6: 503.12 -60deg 100dB, -20, P
Mode 7: 504.804 +60deg 100dB, +500, P
Mode 8: 504.875 -60deg 100dB, -50, P
Mode 9: -60deg 100dB 994.646, +10, P
Mode 10: -60deg 100dB 998.81, -10, P

Set to observing at 04:08 UTC. The violin modes are rung up again. I want to see what they will do on their own, so setting to observing.

Found the attached SDF differences at NLN. Reverting. This time did not skip VIOLIN_MODE_DAMPING_1.

Lost lock sitting at NLN and damping violin modes. Had accidentally rung up spectrum around 1008 Hz and was damping it back down. Relocking.

Found the attached SDF difference at NLN. Reverting.

Sheila, Jeff, TVo

We were thinking that comparing TFs between L2 actuators and the oplev sensors on the test masses might be a good idea, however, it wasn't trivial to get a past reference of a driven TF which matches the exact status of our current damping scheme.  

So Sheila suggested that I do a passive low bandwidth, high-averaging TF comparing the NLN states of the suspension before and after the EQ.

- References are the old (2017-06-23 03:00:00) compared to the most recent lock stretch (2017-07-28 03:49:39)

Below are the graphs and .xml files for the TFs, it seems like the pitch DOFs are clearer than Yaw as far as coherence but the ITMs are pretty bad below .6 Hz so it's hard to say something too definitive about that status in the low frequency regime.  However, for the ETMs, we can see that from .1 Hz to 3Hz there hasn't been much change due to the earthquake.  

While we were down because of the HPI pump controller I moved the ESD shield box from EX to EY, so that next time we are locked we can try the shielding test at EY.  We had one more (unexplained) lockloss before I could try anything.  Done commissioning for today.

TITLE: 07/29 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Commissioning
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Jeff
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 15mph Gusts, 10mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.07 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

Skipped VIOLIN_MODE_DAMPING_1 per Sheila's request. Made it to NLN at 23:33 UTC. Sheila commissioning.

Shift Summary: While Sheila and I were damping a Violin Mode both End HEPI pump controllers failed with an OU3. Reset per procedures in aLOG #37359 and both are back on line. Sitting a LOCKING_ARMS_GREEN while Sheila dose some work on the ESDs. Sheila finished ESD work. Back to Relocking.    

Jeff B, Sheila, Jim W by phone

I came in to do some commissioning.  Jeff B was starting to work on violin 1st harmonics while I planned to some ESD measurements so we took the IFO out of observing.  Jeff B made a modest increase in the violin damping gain the moment before the IFO unlocked and both end station ISIs and HPI's tripped.

This seems to be a coincidence, not some sort of violin mode/pump controller conspiracy.  The attached plot shows EY pump pressure goes to not OK about one second before EX pump pressure goes to not OK, which was about one second before Jeff changed the gain for ETMX MODE10 (with a 10 second ramp). I am not sure if we can trust the timing of the pump controller channels relative to the front ends.

With advice from Jim W on the phone, and using instructions from 37359 we are bringing back the pump controllers.

   IFO locked at NLN and Observing for past 15.25 hours. Environmental conditions are good. Another Mag 4.6 earthquake in Eureka CA. Very sharp up and down on the signal, and no apparent disturbance to the IFO. Monitoring the Violin Modes. Several are elevated. No action taken as the IFO is locked at 55.1Mpc and both LLO and Virgo are in science mode.  

Handing Off an H1 which has been locked over 11hrs to Jeff B.  As mentioned earlier, violin harmonics are rung up, but no action taken since range appears unaffected and Glitch monitor shows no issues (also been in triple/quadruple coinicidence for much of shift).

H1 locked for almost 7.5hrs.  Violin harmonics are still rung up (1k & 1.5k are above e-15 & others lower), but H1 Glitch tool (on nuc0) & range look fine.  Since we are in the middle of L1/V1/H1 triple coincidence for the last 7.5hrs, no action being taken.

TITLE: 07/29 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 54Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 9mph Gusts, 7mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.06 μm/s

useism inching up. 
QUICK SUMMARY:

Bad News:  Violins:  Fundamental is low (e-18), but 1st harmonic is up to e-16 & all higher harmonics are higher than normal. 

Good News:  Rung up violins aren't affecting our range (drifting up to our post-MT-EQ 55Mpc).

TITLE: 07/28 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 52Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Jim and Sheila were damping violin modes at DC_READOUT when I arrived. I damped ETMY mode 9 (1009.2 Hz) using FM4, FM5, FM7 +100 gain in YAW. This is a change but I am not confident enough to update the wiki table or guardian code. Moved on to NLN in time to be hit by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake in California but remained locked. Reverted a SDF difference for the HAM4 ISI per Jim's instructions. Sheila and Marc did work at end X. Lost lock at 01:09 UTC. Stopped at DC_READOUT_TRANSITION to damp violin modes (the fundamentals were bad again). Damped the fundamentals. Accidentally rang up the second harmonics while trying to damp them. After damping them back down to where they were before I decided to move on to NLN and observing. PI mode 28 has rung up both times in NLN. My attempts to damp it by changing the phase do not seem to have much effect, but eventually it comes down anyway.

The range is slowly improving.

There are DIAG_MAIN notifications for both PCAL X and Y RF PD being greater than 1% off.

LOG:

00:00 UTC Trying DC_READOUT -> NLN. Changed intention bit from observing to lock acquisition.
00:08 UTC Earthquake
Sheila and Marc to end X
00:50 UTC Sheila and Marc back
Sheila running measurement
~01:00 UTC Reverted HAM 4 ISI SDF difference
01:09 UTC Lock loss
01:35 UTC Stopped at DC_READOUT_TRANSITION to damp violin modes. Fundamentals are bad again.
03:44 UTC NLN
03:58 UTC Observing