In Observing for about 7 hours. All green and clear at this time.
Pitch: ETMX, ITMX, and SR3 were at or above 10urads. They have been reset to zero. See Figure 1 Yaw: ETMX and ITMX were atthe 10urads line. The BS is close to the 10urad line, however the slpoe is flat. See Figure 2 Close FAMIS Task #4733
TITLE: 06/22 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 69Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Jeff
SHIFT SUMMARY: Commissioning for the first half of the day, Observing for the second. H1 locked for ~6 hours, Observing for ~3 hours. No issues to report.
LOG: See previous aLogs. A couple of locklosses during Commissioning period that I didn't bother to log because they were CCLs (Commissioner Caused Lockloss);).
It seems that there is high coherence between ASC CSOFT/CHARD and LSC PRCL/MCL. Please see the attached plots (data from Jun 20, 02:00:00 UTC, for 1024s).
Especially with PRCL, the ~0.4 Hz peak seems to be related to the dP/dtheta instability (37046 and alogs referred therein). Does this indicate that there is a large cross-coupling from LSC to ASC ( i.e. a large dtheta/dF term in the dP/dtheta loop)? Would l2a ff (see, e.g., LLO 31756) help?
Short summary posted below. See here for full results.
Sheila logged that the two lock-losses on Tuesday were caused when her excitation measurement on the PSL ISS THIRDLOOP SERVO was both aborted and when it completed correctly. It would appear that this is due to the filter being used by the excitation has a slow ring down and it was outputting a non-zero value when the awgtpman killed the excitation. This caused a sharp transient step which in this case resulted in the output of the THIRDLOOP_SERVO filter going very high.
This problem was initially reported by Jenne in this alog. My analysis was reported in this alog. Daniel, Jim and myself came up with a work-around described in this alog and in this wiki
To verify the filter in this case has a long ring down, I ran it on a test stand front end, it does indeed have a long ring down, image is attached.
I had opened FRS8368 for this issue, which can now be closed.
The flow rate in the power meter flow circuit has gotten extremely noisy in the past 3 days. Since no debris was observed in the filters, one wonders if it's the flow sensor or perhaps the Beckhoff terminal input that processes the output of the flow sensor.
Locked at NLN for 2.5 hours for commissioning work. Set to Observe at 19:46 UTC after Sheila's measurement wrapped up.
Added 225 mL H2O to Xtal chiller. Diode chiller was good. Filters still appear clean. This closes FAMIS task 6528.
While LLO is still down, Sheila is planning to do some commissioning for a couple of hours. Will monitor the state of LLO and revert to Observing when they get locked.
TITLE: 06/22 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: EARTHQUAKE
INCOMING OPERATOR: Travis
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Fairly standard shift until a big Guatamalan EQ took H1 down for going on 2.5hrs. EQ band recently low enough to start locking up H1 again.
Saw a pair of porcupines.
LOG:
TITLE: 06/22 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Corey
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 11mph Gusts, 8mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.09 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: Relocking after an EQ ~2 hours ago. Currently at the CARM reduction steps, so progressing well. No other issues were handed off.
Sun almost rising. H1/GEO OBSERVING. Virgo Locking. Winds are about the same. And H1 is at 65Mpc.
Received multiple TCSy Chiller flow is low Verbal Alarms at 8:36utc.
Went out to look at the TCS chillers. TCSy was at about its midpoint (~5cm). Topped off with 150mL of water to get it to 8.5mL. It's flow was reading at 4.0gpm with temp of 20.9C.
TITLE: 06/22 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 65Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Jeff
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 21mph Gusts, 17mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.12 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s
Breezier outside than last night. Winds steady just under 20mph. useism has taken a slight step up over the last 24hrs to take us up to the 50th percentile. Clear night out.
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 observing for 4.75hrs (with 13hr lock) and a BNS range hovering around 65Mpc; by eye can see slight 0.16Hz oscillation on POP & PR Gain signals on strip tool.. L1 out due to storm activity (no operator on shift).
Back to Observing after commissioning work finished for the day. No LHO issues or problems to report. LLO IFO is in a DOWN state due to continued microseism. The site is unmanned until tomorrow morning.
HAM 11, 12 annulus ion pumps are known failures. Vacuum will investigate next chance we can get into LVEA.