9:40 am local
Took about 30 sec. to overfill CP3 & CP4 each. Both nominal LLCV settings were a bit high based on exhaust pressure (non zero) and TC readings prior to fill. I've lowered CP3 to 18% and CP4 to 37%.
The /trend file system on h1tw0 became corrupt this morning about 6:05 AM PST. Rebooted computer to force unmount and fsck of file system. Many errors were discovered and repaired. It appears there may be a bad drive in the RAID, it is being replaced. The daqd process is also dying when it encounters an improperly sized file, we will probably just remove it.
There were 9445 corrupted files in /trend/minute_raw which needed to be removed.
About 24.5 hours of continuous lock, still alive.
Due to road condition, many will stay at home or come in late. I'm covering the operator shift as much as I can.
At about 17:20 UTC the lock was lost probably due to PI mode 10 or 26 or both ringing up. I heard "PI mode something ringing up" but wasn't paying much attention as I was on a telecon.
In trending the PSL Enclosure temperatures for the past few days, I remembered about the AD590-based sensor on the table near the exit of the reference cavity chamber. There's a sudden jump in the temperature reading. Not sure why this would be the case. The reference cavity was locked at the time.
H1 is locked and Observing for 19hours43min.
Range is vacillating between 63 and 73Mpc. (as per the range medm screen)
The 1009.5 vioin mode has neither rung down nor up.
Environmental conditions are nominally good
All seismic BLRMS show downward trending
Below are trends from the past two days. I can see a definite correlation between wind speed and the .3u particle count in the PSL 101 dust monitor ~ two days ago. It's hard to tell about the most current one. The particle count is definitly high enough to set off the alarm but can wind speeds under 10mph be to blame?
I don't see any aLogs about VEA environmental changes at EY so I don't quite know what is going on with dust monitor 1. Again, I see wind speeds ≤ 10mph
TITLE: 12/12 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 71.8Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ed
SHIFT SUMMARY:
All shifts should be like this....weekend! Cheryl handed off a locked H1 & it is approaching 16hrs of lock. The range looks very good on this stretch: flat, no glitch drops. useism is just under the 90percentile and winds are low.
1st Harmonic of Violins (~1kHz) are high (1x^-15). Perhaps we should address damping these guys down at some point when L1 is down?
Tonight Amber Henry was my copilot at the operator helm. Walked her through some of the basics.
Plot attached:
Thanks. FYI we no longer need to log PI damping changes (unless of course something goes wrong/abnormal).
TITLE: 12/11 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 70.4106Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:
(Gray, Kawabe, Vorvick)
Wanted to close the loop here (mainly wanted to confirm there were no other channels we had to worry about).
Today Cheryl took care of UNMONITORING the channel (H1:ALS-Y_FIBR_LOCK_TEMPERATURECONTROLS_ON) we observed knocking us out of OBSERVING the last two days.
I went ahead & followed Keita's instructions for checking ALL the channels for this frontend (h1sysecaty1plc2), which Cheryl posted (here), to make sure there were no other channels in h1sysecaty1plc2 we might be missing. The [15] channel list files are at: /ligo/home/keita.kawabe/LockLoss/SDFERRORS/h1sysecaty1plc2 & I ran a lockloss script on all of these files for both OBSERVING drops which happened during Cheryl's shifts (GPS time: 1165432802 & 1165531183) & for both of these times, the channel noted above is the only one which makes an obvious change (see attachment #1 & #2 for both times).
So we should now be good (unless a new channel makes a change on us).
Terra called in to check on H1. I hadn't looked outside, so wasn't aware that we'd had sleet this morning after I got here, and she's telling me that road conditions in town are not good. She and I talked about H1 and it's running well, so she did not come to the site. She emailed Keita, so he's aware.
Local time translates into 15:00UTC yesterday to 21:00 today.
Lowered CP4 LLCV further to 36% open.
35%