07:22UTC Lockloss
I set the Observation Mode to Environment "Seismis" because I think the tiny rise in the EQ band is what did it, at this point. Y arm is kinda messed so I'm going to do an Initial Alignment but I'm leaving the mode set as mentioned.
07:44 Begin Initial alignment
@ 04:47UTC
Diag Reset
J. Kissel I've completed creating a new parameter set for the matlab DARM loop model that contains the updates from the fit of the new set of reference measurements taken on 2017-01-03. I've then compared those measurements directly to the new model with an update to the function /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/compareDARMOLGTFs.m Results are attached. The agreement is quite good, but I expected better. Further discussion below, but I must continue with the facts first. I also re-attach sensing function fit results, with spruced up information and residuals for the MCMC results, and tabulated below: Reference Value MAP (95% C.I.) MAP (95% C.I.) 2016-11-12 2017-01-03 (nlinfit) 2017-01-03 (MCMC) Optical Gain K_C [ct/m] 1.15e6 1.088e6 (0.0002e6) 1.086e6 (0.0002e6) Couple Cav. Pole Freq. f_c [Hz] 346.7 360.0 (7.6) 360.4 (3.4) Residual Sensing Delay tau_C [us] 2.3 0.67 (6.7) 0.65 (2.6) SRC Detuning Spring Freq. f_s [Hz] 7.4 6.91 (0.1) 6.9 (0.06) Inv. Spring Qual. Factor 1/Q_s [ ] 0.05 0.046 (0.016) 0.03 (0.0081) UIM/L1 Actuation Strength K_UIM [N/ct] 8.164e-8 n/a 8.091e-8 (0.2%) PUM/L2 Actuation Strength K_PUM [N/ct] 6.841e-10 n/a 6.768e-10 (0.02%) UIM/L3 Actuation Strength K_TST [N/ct] 4.389e-12 n/a 4.357e-12 (0.02%) Upsettingly, with this comparison and revisit of the fitting codes, I've discovered that neither the nlinfit fitting function or the mcmc fitting function pre-filters the measurement data for coherence. I suspect that the highest two data points in the DARM OLG TF measurement, which "only" have coherence on 0.97 and 0.99, and hence large uncertainty, are skewing both fitting functions. This is why the coupled cavity pole frequency is fit to be rather high at 360.4 (-3.03,+3.39) [Hz] (MCMC) and 360.0 (+/- 7.9) [Hz] (nlinfit). If I manually manipulate the model to have a cavity pole frequency of 350 [Hz], the agreement with measurement is better. However, this stone method of determining physical parameters from eye-balling model residuals is flawed in that it has no inherent quantitative uncertainty. I spent too much time trying to decide what to do about this, so I have not yet pushed this model (or associated EPICs records) to the front end. And yes, the means the h(t) OK light will not turn green for another night. Updating the calibration is something I'd like to do after a good night's sleep, given I'm the only one working on this and I don't want to mess it up (I've been known to do it before). Perhaps others in the calibration group will have epiphanies over night that may help in the morning as well. For the time being, I've committed the model parameters and functions. Hopefully all relevant information to begin generating DCS filters is present. Every folder listed below should be updated before proceeding to make anything. (r = svn revision, lc = last changed revision) Model Functions: /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ O2/DARMmodel/src/ DARMmodel.m (r3857, lc: r3511) computeSensing.m (r4040, lc: r4025) computeActuation.m (r4040, lc: r4003) Param Files: /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ O2/H1/params/ H1params.conf (r4087, lc: r4087) O2/H1/params/2017-01-03/ H1params_2017-01-03.conf (r4054, lc: r4044) measurements_2017-01-03_sensing.conf (r4089, lc: r4089) measurements_2017-01-03_ETMY_L3_actuator.conf (r4054, lc: r4044) measurements_2017-01-03_ETMY_L2_actuator.conf (r4054, lc: r4044) measurements_2017-01-03_ETMY_L1_actuator.conf (r4054, lc: r4044) Relevant Exports for GDS / DCS filter generation: /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ O2/H1/Measurements/Foton/ 2017-01-03_H1CALCS_InverseSensingFunction_Foton_SRCD-2N_and_Gain_Filters_tf.txt (r4083, lc: rev 4083) Let the record show that I used the most probable values from the nlinfit function values listed above when filling out the sensing function in H1params.conf. I've done so because (a) the nlinfit and mcmc results are consistently within the nlinfit's uncertainty. (b) the nlinfit code produces a foton design string that can be copied directly into a new filter bank (b) is an essential feature, because the GDS and DCS pipelines need to compensate for the high-frequency warping of the inverse sensing function response. Indeed that's the "relevant export" which was generated in such fashion, with the following design strings: SRCD2N: zpk([360.0;6.7496;-7.0660],[0.1;0.1;7000],1,"n")gain(4768.4) Gain: gain(9.191e-07) (see LHO aLOG 31693 for why the design of the detuning spring frequency doesn't exactly look right.) I still owe a long aLOG that details all the functions and processes I've gone through to get this far, I know. Where does this put us on the road map from LHO aLOG 32989? The steps forward from here: DONE - Convert the actuation strength in [N/ct] to [N/A] or [N/V^2] so we can create an updated reference parameter set for the DARM loop model DONE - Compare the new open loop gain model against measurements READY, BUT NOT PUSHED - Use the loop model tp push new reference values to the front end CAL-CS model (changing the optical plant compensation, and the gain of the actuator compensation, L2/L3 change has already been pushed) READY, BUT NOT PUSHED - Use the loop model to push new EPICs records that document model values at calibration line frequencies (the biggest change will be from the L2/L3 cross-over upgrade) << this is the major problem that's causing bad h(t) calibration flag CAN BEGIN - Use the new loop model to push a new set of GDS FIR correction filters (small changes due to better AA/AI model) - Confirm that time-dependent correction factors are within an expected range << if/when in range, this should green light the h(t) calibration flag CAN BEGIN - Use the new loop model to generate DCS FIR filters to recalibrate the all data from the post-winter break from raw DARM_ERR and DARM_CTRL. - Push hard for uncertainty estimations for both the first part of O2 and data post-winter break.
J. Kissel Documentation of how the above 2017-01-03 parameters were fit from measurement is in LHO aLOG 33090. What is not included in LHO aLOG 33090 is how to convert the [N/ct] listed in the above table into [N/A] or [N/V^2] which is how each actuator stage is entered into the configuration file for the DARM loop model. Since this is more relevant to updating the configuration files and DARM loop model described in this above aLOG 33004 (as opposed to processing measurements to obtain the fit values), I describe the process here for the 2017-01-03 parameter filer set: - Copy over 2016-11-12 configuration file, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/params/ H1params.conf (r4042, lc: 3957) to the new reference model location in the O2 directory, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/params/ H1params.conf (I committed the first version r4044 after I copied over the file and changed the DRIVEALIGN filters to account for the new L2/L3 crossover filter configuration) - Copy the script that converts the new [N/ct] to new [N/A] or [N/V^2] using the model as it stands with the former values in place (the purpose is to grab the DAC gain, the AI gain, and the coil driver transconductance or the ESD driver gain which remain fixed in time), ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ getActValuesForParamsFile.m (r3827, lc: r3827) over to the new reference model location in the O2 directory, renamed for the new reference time, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ getActValuesForParamsFile_20170103.m In this script, you have to manually enter in the new [N/ct] values from the MCMC fitting code (which is why you need to make a copy of the function, instead of it being generic to runs and reference times). The script uses the model as it stands with the former values in place, computes the former [N/ct] value, takes the ratio with the new [N/ct] value, and then multiplies the former [N/A] or [N/V^2] value by that ratio to obtain new [N/A] or [N/V^2] values. - Copy the output of the conversion script into the configuration file, and commit (which is the current rev) ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/params/ H1params.conf (r4087, lc: r4087) I agree with you that this process is clunky. We will work to streamline the update of the parameter file in the future. The fit parameters for the sensing function are just directly copied into the configuration file from the nlinfit results as listed above. Well, OK, you have to invert 1/Q, and enter in the Q, but that's straight-forward. Again to streamline the process, we may consider changing the DARM loop model to accept 1/Q instead of Q such that we reduce the number of steps in creating a new model. ------------------------ Also of note when creating a new reference model: the configuration file that is more meant to compensate non-reference measurements for time-dependence, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/params/2017-01-03/ H1params_2017-01-03.conf (r4054, lc: r4044) must be updated to have all kappa values to be unity, and the darm coupled cavity pole must match the reference time, because DARMmodel.m uses these values to overwrite the default params values from ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/params/ H1params.conf (r4087, lc: r4087) ------------------------
Temps at EY are oscillating around 69˚F. I posted some StripTool plots spanning about 10 minutes and some past 24hr trend plots.
LLO just getting back locked and GWIstat not reporting observing yet. A2l passive measurement showed PIT was out.
The trends posted are for the last 20 days. This includes the FAMIS task that was assigned over the holiday break.
Everything looks normal. Some dropouts consistent with laser trips and diode powers influenced by humidity. Chiller plots look stable.
TITLE: 01/05 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 68.9378Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:
While LLO was down, Cheryl took the interferometer to commisioning at 22:10 UTC do the jitter measurements described in WP 6384 This took about 7 minutes.
We had not redone a jitter injection since the model rates were increased to 16kHz. I redid the injections, and got good measurements to about 2kHz where the sensor noise of the IMC WFS limits the measurement.
The new measurements are included in the attached noise budget plot, which is still missing some noises but has an estimate of the noise from the ITM elliptical baffles based on data that Annamaria and Robert took durring PEM injections in December.
TITLE: 01/05 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 64.9223Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
Wind: 10mph Gusts, 9mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Early this morning I noticed the LVEA temperature falling. Around 8:00 A M local time, I brought in 1 stage of heat in Zone 3A, this brought the temperature up. 3A is currently not one of the four zones controlled by the VARIAC transformers so I am reducing this zone and will slightly increase Zone 4 and 5 from 8 to 9 ma, which are controlled by the VARIACS. This should help stabilize the temperatures. Around that same time this morning Nutsinee informed me that she had critical alarm at EY chiller yard. I looked into the alarm and found that CWP-1 had tripped. Fortunately, this trip occurred during one of the chiller off cycles. I started CWP-2 and reset CWP-1, all seems to be good so far.
J. Kissel I've analyzed the reference data taken from 2017-01-03, and re-analyzed the data from 2016-11-12 with updated matlab analysis code that includes the LHO-only bug-fix regarding the gain of the AA/AI filter model (see LHO aLOG 32907). The results are tabulated below. MAP (68% C.I.) MAP (68% C.I.) Date 2016-11-12 2016-11-12 2017-01-03 (former analysis) (new analysis) (new analysis) Optical Gain K_C [ct/m] 1.15e6 1.164e6 (0.09%) 1.086e6 (0.07%) Couple Cav. Pole Freq. f_c [Hz] 346.7 346.7 (0.4%) 360.4 (0.4%) Residual Sensing Delay tau_C [us] 2.3 2.3 (50%) 0.65 (200%) SRC Detuning Spring Freq. f_s [Hz] 7.4 7.4 (1.1%) 6.9 (0.5%) Inv. Spring Qual. Factor 1/Q_s [ ] 0.05 0.05 (8.7%) 0.03 (12%) UIM/L1 Actuation Strength K_UIM [N/ct] 8.164e-8 8.104e-8 (0.2%) 8.091e-8 (0.2%) PUM/L2 Actuation Strength K_PUM [N/ct] 6.841e-10 6.773e-10 (0.03%) 6.768e-10 (0.02%) UIM/L3 Actuation Strength K_TST [N/ct] 4.389e-12 4.389e-12 (0.04%) 4.357e-12 (0.02%) As expected, with the 2016-11-12 reference measurements re-analyzed, the estimated sensing function gain has increased by ~1%, and the actuation function have decreased by a few %. Further, we see that -- also as expected -- the 2017-01-04 reference measurements show some evolution of the optical sensing parameters, no evolution of the UIM and PUM stage actuation strengths, and a few % change in TST actuation strength change due to charge evolution. The steps forward from here: - Convert the actuation strength in [N/ct] to [N/A] or [N/V^2] so we can create an updated reference parameter set for the DARM loop model - Compare the new open loop gain model against measurements - Use the loop model tp push new reference values to the front end CAL-CS model (changing the optical plant compensation, and the gain of the actuator compensation, L2/L3 change has already been pushed) - Use the loop model to push new EPICs records that document model values at calibration line frequencies (the biggest change will be from the L2/L3 cross-over upgrade) << this is the major problem that's causing bad h(t) calibration flag - Use the new loop model to push a new set of GDS FIR correction filters (small changes due to better AA/AI model) - Confirm that time-dependent correction factors are within an expected range << if/when in range, this should green light the h(t) calibration flag - Use the new loop model to generate DCS FIR filters to recalibrate the all data from the post-winter break from raw DARM_ERR and DARM_CTRL. - Push hard for uncertainty estimations for both the first part of O2 and data post-winter break. There's a ton of librarian information that I need to post that documents where all this data came from and what scripts were used, but I'll post as a comment later today.
J. Kissel I repost the table, without typos in the (new analysis) columns in actuation: MAP (68% C.I.) MAP (68% C.I.) Date 2016-11-12 2016-11-12 2017-01-03 (former analysis) (new analysis) (new analysis) Optical Gain K_C [ct/m] 1.15e6 1.164e6 (0.09%) 1.086e6 (0.07%) Couple Cav. Pole Freq. f_c [Hz] 346.7 346.7 (0.4%) 360.4 (0.4%) Residual Sensing Delay tau_C [us] 2.3 2.3 (50%) 0.65 (200%) SRC Detuning Spring Freq. f_s [Hz] 7.4 7.4 (1.1%) 6.9 (0.5%) Inv. Spring Qual. Factor 1/Q_s [ ] 0.05 0.05 (8.7%) 0.03 (12%) UIM/L1 Actuation Strength K_UIM [N/ct] 8.164e-8 8.104e-8 (0.2%) 8.091e-8 (0.2%) PUM/L2 Actuation Strength K_PUM [N/ct] 6.841e-10 6.773e-10 (0.03%) 6.768e-10 (0.02%) UIM/L3 Actuation Strength K_TST [N/ct] 4.389e-12 4.347e-12 (0.04%) 4.357e-12 (0.02%) Note that (new analysis) sensing function parameter fits are MCMC results, not nlinfit results, which are what is used for updating the DARM loop model. However, MCMC results are consistent with the uncertainty of the nlinfit results, so we consider the results interchangeable. Rather, we use the MCMC results for response function uncertainty, where we use nlinfit results to update the DARM loop model -- we should and will use MCMC results for updating the DARM loop model in the future such that we have a self-consistent pipeline from reference measurement analysis to response function uncertainty estimation. I attach an update to the sensing function plot for each reference data set which improves the MCMC fit results vs. measurement plot to show residuals and parameter values with uncertainties, such that it can now be directly compared to the same plot produced by the nlinfit code. As promised, a complete description of how these results were generated: :::: How I generated 2016-11-12 (new analysis) :::: --------- - Updated measurement base-level processing scripts and DARM model, which fixes the AA/AI filter gain analysis bug identified in LHO aLOG 32907), ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/DARMmodel/src/ DARMmodel.m (r4093, lc: r3511) computeActuation.m (r4093, lc: r4003) computeSensing.m (r4093, lc: r4025) --------- - Generated a new fit for actuation parameters using MCMC analysis: pre-process actuation measurements using ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ actuatorCoefficients_Npct.m (r4065, lc: r4065) which spits out text files of the actuation function for each stage with portions known to negligible uncertainty removed (e.g. frequency dependence of SUS dynamics, AI filter shape, etc.), ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Measurements/FullIFOActuatorTFs/2016-11-12/ 2016-11-12_H1SUSETMY_L1_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4111, lc: r4111) 2016-11-12_H1SUSETMY_L2_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4111, lc: r4111) 2016-11-12_H1SUSETMY_L3_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4111, lc: r4111) which are then loaded into ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ fitActCoefs_Npct.m (r3977, lc: r3977) where each stage is fit independently, so you have to switch the variable "stage" between 'L1', 'L2', or 'L3'. Running on ONLY the 2016-11-12 reference measurement time (instead of two days of measurements, as Darkhan originally did) dateListRef = {'2016-11-12'}; gpsListRef = [1162969230]; yields the above results. There's a typo in the above table: the new analysis of L3/TST actuator coefficient is 4.347e-12 [N/ct], as shown in the above attachement https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/uploads/32989_20170105090730_2016-11-12_H1_SUSETMY_ACT_COEF_REF_fitCorner.pdf --------- - Generated a new fit for the sensing function parameters using nlinfit and MCMC analysis: pre-process sensing function measurements with ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/PCAL/ fitDataToC_20161116.m (r4040, lc: r4028) which produces an nlinfit list of parameters on the IFO optical plant (i.e. with stuff known to negligible uncertainty removed, like frequency dependence of OMC DCPD high frequency electronics), and also spits out a text file of that IFO optical plant for MCMC fitting, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Results/Sensing 2016-11-12_H1_meas_sensingTF_withoutDCPDTFs_ctpm.txt (r4079, lc: 4072) This is loaded into ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/PCAL/ fitCTF_mcmc.m (r4112, lc: r4112) to produce the MCMC maximum a posteriori (MAP). Even though all MCMC results are repeated using python code, the sensing function parameter's posterior distribution from the above matlab MCMC code are exported to text: /ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Results/Sensing/ 2016-11-12_H1_sensing_burn80p_nWalk100_output.txt (r4079, lc: r4077) 2016-11-12_H1_sensing_burn80p_nWalk100_posteriors.txt (r4079, lc: r4079) Actuator parameter posterior distributions are not yet exported from the matlab code. :::: How I generated 2017-01-03 (new analysis) :::: -------- - Used the updated versions of same the base-level processing scripts described above for 2016-11-12 (new analysis) -------- - Generated a fit for actuation parameters using MCMC analysis: Above mentioned actuation function pre-processing script copied from ER10 directory to O2 directory (prior to making aesthetic changes to the script in rev 4065), ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ actuatorCoefficients_Npct.m (r3811, lc: r3811) became ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ fitDataToA_20170103.m (r4095, ls: r4061) (Note the intentional name change to match sensing function scripts) which produces text files of actuation functions with frequency dependence known to negligible uncertainty removed, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Results/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ (Note change in location because the text files are a result, 2017-01-03_H1SUSETMY_L1_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4095, lc: r4056) not a part of the measurements) 2017-01-03_H1SUSETMY_L2_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4095, lc: r4056) 2017-01-03_H1SUSETMY_L3_actuationStrength_Npct.txt (r4095, lc: r4056) which are analysized by the MCMC code copied over from ER10 to O2, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/FullIFOActuatorTFs/ fitActCoefs_Npct.m (r3977, lc: r3977) became ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/FullActuatorTFs/ fitATF_mcmc_20170103.m (Note the intentional name change to match sensing function scripts) and again, run individually for each stage on 2017-01-03 reference measurement. -------- - Generated a fit for sensing function parameters using nlinfit and MCMC analysis, pre-process sensing function measurements with a new copy of ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/PCAL/ fitDataToC_20161116.m (r4040, lc: r4028) now named ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/SensingFunctionTFs/ (Note folder change to match actuator scripts and the rest fitDataToC_20170103.m (r4095, ls: r4090) of O2 directory structure) which produces an nlinfit list of parameters on the IFO optical plant (i.e. with stuff known to negligible uncertainty removed, like frequency dependence of OMC DCPD high frequency electronics), and also spits out a text file of that IFO optical plant for MCMC fitting, ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Results/Sensing 2017-01-03_H1_meas_sensingTF_withoutDCPDTFs_ctpm.txt (r4095, lc: 4056) This is loaded into a copy of ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER10/H1/Scripts/PCAL/ fitCTF_mcmc.m (r4041, lc: r4041) (copied prior to aesthetic changes to fit vs. measurement plot which now shows residuals in r4112 as described above) which is now ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Scripts/PCAL/ fitCTF_mcmc_20170103.m (r4095, lc: r4091) to produce the MCMC maximum a posteriori (MAP) (and also has the same aesthetic changes as the ER10 version, r4112). Even though all MCMC results are repeated using python code, the sensing function parameter's posterior distribution from the above matlab MCMC code are exported to text: ${CalSVN}/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O2/H1/Results/SensingFunctionTFs/ 2017-01-03_H1_sensing_burn80p_nWalk100_output.txt (r4095, lc: 4058) 2017-01-03_H1_sensing_burn80p_nWalk100_posteriors.txt (r4095, lc: 4058) Actuator parameter posterior distributions are not yet exported from the matlab code. ---------- A super-duper thanks to Darkhan, Kiwamu, and Evan for writing the brunt of these functions. It took a while to find everything, how the analysis flow was to go, and how to correctly into file names, but it otherwise works like a charm with very reproducible results. I look forward to making the functions even more streamlined, and potentially merging functionality so there's not so many functions of which to keep track. ----------
I was left instructions to run a2l a few hours into the new lock. It's a bit early but the range has deteriorated too much for my pleasure and the YAW coherence is coming apart pretty bad. I've informed LLO of my action and will also inform them when I'm finished and back in the game.
Incidentally, running the a2l script from th MEDM launch screen seems to crash all of the MEDM screens. I thought, at first that it was only the new Ops workstation but I now see it happening on the other workstation as well.
back to Observing @ 05:23UTC
Re: running a2l from sitemap->sus->a2l screen crashes medm screens
There was a typo on the a2l button that I must have added before the break. There was an apostrophe at the end of the command for running the a2l script, this obviously was doing something bad. It was actually my punctuation all out of order. Needed to be ' & not & ' . It's fixed now, a2l should run normally from this screen.
~1625 - 1630 hrs. local -> Kyle in and out of LVEA Shut down rotating shaft vacuum pumps which had been pumping PT180 (BSC8) for the past 8 days. Also, removed ladder which had been leaning against BSC8. We should now have enough data to compare and contrast PT180's behavior between when it is exposed/pumped by the YBM to that of when exposed/pumped by a locally mounted turbo. Recall that the post-detect era installed Bayard-Alpert gauges PT170, PT180 and PT140 all exhibit a slow upward drift that the iLIGO era Cold Cathode gauges (sampling same vacuum volume) do not. Understanding/believing our gauges is critical. We will decouple the vacuum pumps from PT180 on the next maintenance day.
Pressure reading from PT180 is once again rising after being valved into main volume. We suspect the water load is causing this. End stations show no sign but also get 2.5x more pumping speed from cyropumps due to smaller volume.
PT140 pressure reading on diagonal volume (no crypopump) started dropping this week after a three month incline. These changes are due to LVEA temperature fluctuations.
Correction: water pumping speed is more like 1.8x more at end stations.
Corner volume = 445,000 liters
End volume = 88,000 liters
Corner cyropumping = [100,000 - 3,000] x 2 (L/s)
End cryopuming = 100,000 - 30,000 (L/s)
He was informing me that they were going to go to Observing. I told him we had been there for a few hours already but he brought to my attention the fact that GWI stat is reporting us as NOT ok. Anyone?
Apologies. We've been at NLN for about that long. In Observation for only about 1 hour.
Seems like H1:DMT-CALIBRATED is 0 (zero) not 1. Is this related to the calibration task performed today?
Is this why GWI stat thinks that H1 is not OK?
Sent a message to Jeff Kissel, Aaron Viets and Alex Urban.
I tried a few things to see if I could figure out why the calibration flag wasn't set. 1) restarted the redundant calibration pipeline, This probably caused some of the backup frames to be lost but the primary and low latency frames would not be affected. The Science_RSegs_H1 process https://marble.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/dmt/monitor_reports/Science_RSegs_H1/Segment_List.html is generating segments from the output of the (restarted) redundant pipeline, but it is getting the same results. 2) Checked for dataValid errors in the channels in the broadcaster frames. dataValid would probably cause the pipeline to flush the h(t) data. No such errors were found 3) checked for subnormal/Nan data in the broadcaster frames. Another potential proble,m tha tmight cause the pipeline to flush the data. No problems of this type were found either. 4) checked pipeline log file - nothing unusual 5) Checked for frame errors or broadcaster restarts flagged by the broadcast receiver. Last restart was Dec 5! So, I can see no reason for the ht pipeline to not be running smoothly.
Alex U. on behalf of the GDS h(t) pipeline team
I've looked into why the H1:DMT-CALIBRATED flag is not being set, and TL;DR: it's because of the kappa_TST and kappa_PU factors.
Some detail: the H1:DMT-CALIBRATED flag can only be active if we are OBSERVATION_READY, h(t) is being produced, the filters have settled in, and, since we're tracking time-dependent corrections at LHO, the kappa factors (except f_CC) must each be within range -- outside of 10% their nominal value, the DMT-CALIBRATED flag will fail to be set. (See the documentation for this on our wiki page: https://wiki.ligo.org/viewauth/Calibration/TDCalibReviewO1#CALIB_STATE_VECTOR_definitions_during_ER10_47O2)
I attach below a timeseries plot of the real and imaginary parts of each kappa factor. (What's actually plotted is 1 + the imaginary part, to make them fit on the same axes.) As you can see, around half an hour or so in, the kappa_TST and kappa_PU factors go off the rails, straying 20-30% outside their nominal values. (kappa_C, which is a time-dependent gain on the sensing function, and f_CC both stay within range during this time period.)
Earlier today, Jeff reported on some work done with the L2/L3 actuation stages (https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=32933) which may in principle affect kappa_TST and kappa_PU. It's possible we will need a new set of time domain filters to absorb these changes into the GDS pipeline. (I also tried a test job from the DMT machine, but the problems with kappas were still present, meaning a simple restart won't solve the problem.)
GWIstat (also the similar display gwsnap) was reporting that H1 was down because of the h(t) production problem; it did not distinguish between that and a down state. I have now modified GWIstat (and gwsnap) to indicate if there is no good h(t) being produced but otherwise the detector is running.
The attached pdf shows that CALCS and GDS agree on the calculation of kappa_tst. I suspect we may need to calculate new EPICS. Jeff (or perhaps Evan or Darkhan) will need to confirm this based on the recent L2/L3 crossover changes that Alex pointed out.
Here is a comparison between h(t) computed in C00 frames (with kappas applied) and the "correct"-ish calibration, with no kappas applied. The first plot shows the spectra of the two from GPS time 1167559872 to 1167559936. The red line is C00, and the blue line has no kappas applied. The second plot is an ASD ratio (C00 / no-kappas-applied) during the same time period. The cache file that has the no-kappas-applied frames can be found in two locations: ldas-pcdev1.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:/home/aaron.viets/H1_hoft_GDS_frames.cache ldas-pcdev1.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:/home/aaron.viets/calibration/H1/gstreamer10_test/H1_hoft_GDS_frames.cache Also, the file ldas-pcdev1.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:/home/aaron.viets/H1_hoft_test_1167559680-320.txt is a text file that has only h(t) from GPS time 1167559680 to 1167600000.
Skipped the whole initial alignment and hand aligned through PRMI/DRMI
HAM6 ISI tripped at DRMI_ASC_OFFLOAD - untripped Locking continues.