Recently, I looked into the narrow peaks in the 20-40 Hz region, noting that coherence with beam jitter sensors suggested that these peaks could be cleaned (86160) While the sharp jitter peaks may be cleanable (though we are having problems with this), many of the jitter peaks rest on pedestals that are not coherent with jitter or vibration sensors. See, for example, the peak at just above 20 Hz in the figure of the referenced log (here) - there is the sharp coherent peak and a broad pedestal that is not coherent with jitter sensors. During past periods when the sharp peak was not present, the pedestal was not present either. We subsequently found that this peak was produced by the Liebert AC in the warehouse building (86257), and the broad incoherent peak comes and goes with the coherent jitter peak as we turned the Liebert on and off (as Shivaraj noted).
To study the non-linear coupling producing these broad pedestals under the jitter peaks, I injected a slow frequency sweep using a global speaker injection so that I could viibrate all regions of the LVEA. The sweep reproduced the two types of coupling and showed that the coupling extended over a broad band, from at least 20 to 45 Hz.
To begin narrowing down the site of the broad non-linear coupling, I first injected using a shaker mounted on the PSL table. This produced a jitter peak without the pedestal, so the nonlinear part of the coupling is not at the PSL table.
I then shook the input beam tube because it was a dominant scatter site whose coupling we reduced in 2024 with baffle work and by adjusting the CP-Y compensation plate (76969). No coupling was noted for MC tube vibration levels that matched or exceeded the level induced in the MC tube by the speaker injection that produced the non-linear coupling. Therefor the non-linear coupling site is also not at the input arm MC tube.
The global acoustic, PSL table, and MC tube swept injections and the coupling to DARM are shown in the figure.
The next step is to continue this process in other regions of the LVEA to narrow down the coupling site.
TITLE: 08/17 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 159Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: We remained locked the entire shift, 25.5 hours.
LOG: No log.
15:53 UTC Red dust alarm in the optics lab, back to normal levels after 20 minutes. The wind has picked up in the past few hours.
TITLE: 08/17 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 157Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 11mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.15 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1's humming along at 25.5+hrs of lock. Environmentall, we are better with winds today and the microseism is slowly dipping and touching the 50th percentile.
Sun Aug 17 10:08:28 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 25secs
TITLE: 08/17 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 5mph Gusts, 2mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.16 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
TITLE: 08/16 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Oli
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Quiet shift. L1 was UP the whole shift, so we did not get to run a calibration. Went to EQ Mode once, but rode through it fine. Winds look like they finally died off **knock on wood**. Microseism is still above the 50th percentile.
LOG:
TITLE: 08/16 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 156Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: Failed EX/TMSX DAC card was swapped. It's been a windy day, we had 2 locklosses, both with windy tags. All three aquisitions were automatic. We've been locked for ~1.5 hours.
LOG:
Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18:49 | LASER | LVEA is LASER HAZARD | LVEA | YES | LVEA IS LASER HAZARD | 09:49 |
14:40 | EE | Marc | EndX | N | Replace failed DAC card | 15:12 |
21:56 UTC Observing
TITLE: 08/16 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 155Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: SEISMON_ALERT
Wind: 24mph Gusts, 12mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.06 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.20 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1's been locked ~1.5hrs and we continue to have the fairly constant breeze hovering around 20mph (with some gusts over 30mph--no doubt contributing to the locklosses today perhaps).
Ryan was not able to run the Sat calibration due to locklosses and not having a thermalized H1. If L1 happens to have a lockloss this evening, I can run one (otherwise, we waiting game/TOI).
Microseism has been trending up the last ~12hrs (currently flattened out above the 50th percentile....it had been below it). Perhaps this has teamed up with the winds for the locklosses today. (Have a standard M5.5 Tonga EQ inbound, and just transitioned to EQ Mode. So have winds + increased microseism + incoming EQ). Been a while since we've juggled multiple seismic sources.
20:51 UTC lockloss
21:56 UTC Observing
19:05 UTC lockloss while we were in the last 15 minutes of thermalizing before the calibration measurement.
20:27 UTC Observing
Sat Aug 16 10:09:02 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 59secs
Marc replaced the bad 18bit DAC, system was powered back up 07:57
I can see all the cards in the IO Chassis, h1iopsusex started with no problems, followed by the user models.
I reset the SWWD on SUS and SEI.
HWWD had not tripped overnight.
Marc is heading out of EX, Ryan is untripping the user model watchdogs and preparing for IFO recovery.
Old 18 bit DAC removed SN: 110425-48
New 18 bit DAC card installed SN:110425-32
Everyone keeps asking so I figure it might as well be in the ALOG. Be aware, there is a big spider at EX, we think it is a big wolf spider. I estimate the size to be 5" or 13cm leg to leg. Its body seemed to be 3" length and 1" in diameter at its widest. Here are the pictures.
I called Marc this morning and he headed out to site. Dave confirmed (86389) that the card that needs to be replaced is the one we swapped in a couple weeks ago (86086) while trying to solve the TMSX ASC locklosses (86079). Since the issues stopped after the old card was swapped out, we know that it was what was causing the issues. Unfortunately this means that that old DAC card won't be a good replacement for this failed card, so Marc is hunting around the EE lab looking for a different 18-bit DAC.
TITLE: 08/16 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Corrective Maintenance
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 29mph Gusts, 18mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.12 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
I started an Initial ALignment at 15:05 UTC
16:24 UTC Observing
WP12760
Marc, Oli, Fil, Ryan C, Dave:
Marc is onsite preparing to drive to EX to replace the failed 18bit-DAC card in h1susex IO Chassis.
Front end is fenced and powered down.