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LHO FMCS
bubba.gateley@LIGO.ORG - posted 06:03, Monday 05 December 2016 - last comment - 20:26, Wednesday 14 December 2016(32177)
Heat increase in the LVEA
I have increased the heat in the LVEA in sections 1A and 5 by 1 ma each.
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bubba.gateley@LIGO.ORG - 06:13, Monday 05 December 2016 (32178)
I also raised the heat at End X from 9.5 to 10ma.
john.worden@LIGO.ORG - 09:41, Monday 05 December 2016 (32182)

End X is slow to respond so I have raised the heater to 11.5 ma and increased fan flow SF01 to 12 ma and ~11500 cfm.

jameson.rollins@LIGO.ORG - 20:26, Wednesday 14 December 2016 (32585)

I assume these temperature increases were well motivated, but I hope the affects of such increases were considered before hand, especially considering we're in the middle of a run.  Small temperature variations can have noticable impact on the IFO, such as changing test mass suspension positions and/or acoustic mode frequencies.

It looks like "temperature" difference units are given in amps?  What is the temperature as a functon heater current?

LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 05:31, Monday 05 December 2016 (32176)
Ops Mid-Shift report

Been locked and observing for 5+hrs. There have been a few glitches lately, and the range has started to drop a little (from 75 -> 70Mpc). Seems to be a bit more noise in DARM around 30-90Hz. Everything else looks good aside from that though. I'll keep investigating.

LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:30, Monday 05 December 2016 (32175)
Ops Eve Shift Transition

TITLE: 12/05 Owl Shift: 08:00-16:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ed
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 5mph Gusts, 4mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.50 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: After a 39hr lock, Ed handed me a fully locked IFO. Nice.
 

H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:13, Monday 05 December 2016 (32173)
Shift Summary - Eve
TITLE: 12/05 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: TJ
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LOG:
08:05Locked at NLN
H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:37, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32172)
39hr40min20sec Lock ended unexpectedly

06:30 Lockoss - reason unknown. There were no alerts. There were no obvious environmental causes. Going to begin re-locking. I will switch ISI config back to WINDY as per the email that Jim just sent out. after locking, if necessary after looking at a2l DTT script I may run the a2l script.

H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:07, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32171)
Mid-Shift Summary - Eve

H1 is locked for 37hours 10 min.  uSeism mean is resting about the 90%ile. Winds got a litle feisty but have calmed to less than 20mph. Some EQ activity caused a slight rise in BLRMS about 2 hours ago. There have been some EY glitches as noted in my activity log below. There was a CP4 alarm and a PSL dust moinor alarm. The TCSY chiller message was as it was on Patrick's shift. The plot of the glitch is also below.

At the beginning of my shift I ran the measurement that looks at the DARM coherence for a2l. The plot is below.

01:21 EY saturation.

01:51 Granted Carlos remote access to CDS

01:55 CP4 alarm

02:03 TCSY chiller flow message - Verbal Alarm

02:15 BIG EY glitch took the range to 4.1 Mpc

02:44 EY glitch

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H1 CAL (CAL)
craig.cahillane@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:42, Sunday 04 December 2016 - last comment - 10:25, Thursday 08 December 2016(32169)
LHO ER10 Gaussian Process Actuation Uncertainty Budget
C. Cahillane

The ER10 LHO Actuation Uncertainty Budget

What has been done:
(1) Gathering all the Newtons/count actuation function measurements for the three stages (UIM, PUM, TST) from November 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, and 18th.  
(2) Running an MCMC over the physical parameters gain and delay for all three stages.  (Only used freq < 10 Hz for UIM, freq < 100 Hz for PUM)
(3) Plot MCMC cornerplots and resulting residuals uncertainty budget from the MCMC PDFs.  
(4) Take the residuals from the MCMC physical parameters' fit, and plug them into a Gaussian Process with kernel k(x,y) = a + b * exp(-0.5*(x-y)**2/l**2), where a, b, and l are the hyperparameters of the GP.
(5) Train the GP on the residuals, and produce a mean posterior fit and an uncertainty budget from the trained kernel.

TL:DR : Take measurements -> Physical MCMC -> Unmodeled GP -> Frequency-Dependent Systematic Error +- Uncertainty Budget

The mean posterior fit is the frequency-dependent systematic error.  The uncertainty budget is also frequency-dependent.  
The Gaussian Process results are shown in Plots 1, 2, and 3 for the UIM, PUM, and TST stages.  The 1-sigma, 68% confidence intervals are plotted.

I want to call attention to how small the uncertainty is in the bucket.
The frequency-dependent uncertainty in the bucket is on the order of 0.1%

This is exciting, but is it real?  
Points in favor:
(1) We have five sets of measurements, and uncertainty roughly goes as 1/sqrt(N) where N = measurement number.  This allows us to win a lot where the measurements are nearly the same and the errorbars are small.
(2) The GP fit hits most of the measurement errorbars.
(3) Uncertainty expands where we have less information.
Points against:
(1) Overfitting might be a problem.  There seem to be unphysical wiggles that nail our data in the bucket. 
(2) This uncertainty budget is lower than ever before by a factor of 10.  This requires extraordinary proof.   
Rebuttals:
(1) We might be able to combat overfitting by lengthening the kernel length-scale and adding more noise to our measurements.  Also, the whole point of this method is to capture unmodeled wiggles.  
(2) The data analysis methods used are more advanced and designed to handle frequency-dependence.  

Plots 4, 5, and 6 are the UIM, PUM, and TST physical model MCMC fits with the measurements.  
Plots 7, 8, and 9 are the UIM, PUM, and TST physical model MCMC parameter cornerplots.

A couple of points: 
(1) The GP uncertainty doesn't take into account the uncertainty from the MCMC physical parameters.  The GP uncertainty dominates nearly everywhere, since the MCMC uncertainty is so tiny (See plots 4, 5, 6).  I may try to incorporate the MCMC uncertainty directly into the measurement errorbars that I input into the GP.
(2) A lot remains to be done.  LLO actuation, sensing at both sites, and final response uncertainty.  
(3) If these results hold, we may have uncertainty dominated by time-dependence.  Stay tuned.
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craig.cahillane@LIGO.ORG - 10:25, Thursday 08 December 2016 (32361)
C. Cahillane

I have changed the kernel the Gaussian Process runs on in order to get more realistic errorbars.

The plots for the UIM stage have a dot product kernel: k(x,y) = 1.0 + x.y + noise
The plots for the PUM and TST stage have a squared dot product kernel: k(x,y) = 1.0 + x.y + (x.y)**2 + noise

The results show a much more simplistic and physically realistic correlation between measurement points. (No more overfitting wiggles, slightly expanded uncertainty bars, no instabilities in the GP results)

Our minimum uncertainty in the TST stage in the bucket is on the order of ~0.6% and 0.3 degrees.  So still very good uncertainty.

Still to do:
(1) Remove time-dependence from the measurements by modifying the .conf files with the relevant kappas.
(2) MCMC to find physical parameters on only the reference measurement.
(3) LLO Actuation, LHO and LLO Sensing.
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H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:18, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32168)
Shift Summary - Eve Transition
TITLE: 12/05 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 74.5862Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 22mph Gusts, 18mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.08 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.61 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:
H1 General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:07, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32167)
Operator Lock Summary
From /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sys/h1/scripts/VerbalAlarms/Lock_Summary.py.

End of Day Summary 
Current Status: Observing, Locked since Dec 3 14:49:59 UTC (1164811816.0) 
Total Day Locked: 33hr 10min 4sec [138.2%] (119404/86400)
Total Day Science: error [error%] (error/86400)
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:04, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32166)
Ops Day Shift Summary
TITLE: 12/04 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 73.3703Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ed
SHIFT SUMMARY: IFO locked and in observing during entire shift. Lock stretch now past 33 hours. CP4 pump level is still glitching in and out of alarm. Evan G. is here as fellow.
LOG:
16:22 UTC Kyle left. He was working in the vacuum prep lab at the end of the hallway when I arrived.
17:44 UTC Multiple EY saturations. A comb appeared in DARM from 500 Hz to 1 kHz. Lasted ~ 1 minute. Looks similar to what Nutsinee posted in her owl shift summary.
23:10 UTC TCSY chiller flow is low verbal alarm. Trend showed it recovered.
23:44 UTC Single EY saturation. Everything in DARM below ~300 Hz jumped.
00:00 UTC Thought I briefly saw red squares on the CDS overview under end Y, but they disappeared.
H1 TCS
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:38, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32165)
Another TCS Y chiller flow glitch
Verbal alarms announced 'TCSY chiller flow is low' at 23:10:09 UTC. Plot attached (1 hour of full data). Seems to have recovered.
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LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:04, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32163)
Ops Mid Shift Summary
Lock is now over 29 hours. Evan G. is here.

~17:44 UTC Saw a reappearance of the glitches that Nutsinee reported in her Owl Summary alog (EY saturations and a comb in DARM from 500 Hz to 1 kHz). Also lasted about a minute.
H1 DCS (DCS)
gregory.mendell@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:42, Sunday 04 December 2016 - last comment - 12:51, Sunday 04 December 2016(32162)
Work on LHO Summary Pages (Frozen Since 12/3 ~05:00utc)

The problem is reported in alog: 32148

The LHO DCS cluster seems fine, but the load on the DCS DetChar box is very high. I've sent an email to the DetChar group, Duncan Macleod, and LDAS about this, seeing if Duncan can get the summary page jobs working again, or if the box needs to be rebooted.

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gregory.mendell@LIGO.ORG - 12:51, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32164)

The detchar box has been rebooted, the detchar jobs are running again, and detchar has been informed. It may take a while for the summary pages to catch up.

LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:20, Sunday 04 December 2016 - last comment - 08:22, Sunday 04 December 2016(32160)
Ops Day Shift Start
TITLE: 12/04 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 75.9413Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 6mph Gusts, 3mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.58 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY: Locked for over 25 hours. Kyle is working in the vacuum prep lab down the hall.
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 08:22, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32161)
Kyle just left.
H1 General
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:59, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32159)
Ops Owl Shift Summary

TITLE: 12/04 Owl Shift: 08:00-16:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Observing at 72.7098Mpc

INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick

SHIFT SUMMARY: Been locked since last night. 25 hours and counting! LLO is still down.

LOG:

10:46 Got a TCSY low flow alarm. Time series showed a quick drop of flow rate and then back to normal. I went to check the chiller on the mezzanine anyway. The flow rate read 4 pgm (normal).

14:12 Suddenly there were nasty group of lines appeared in DARM between 500-1000 Hz. Verbal alarm complained EY saturation multiple times (well, that doesn't tell us much). Lasted less than a minute (14:11:47-14:12:29).

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H1 General
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:47, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32158)
Ops Owl Shift Transition

TITLE: 12/04 Owl Shift: 08:00-16:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Observing at 67.6212Mpc

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ed

CURRENT ENVIRONMENT: Wind: 36mph Gusts, 31mph 5min avg Primary useism: 0.15 μm/s Secondary useism: 0.62 μm/s

QUICK SUMMARY: Still locked since last night. 17 hours and counting. I went through Ops sticky note and was thinking about running a2l since I didn't run it the first two hours into the lock last night. The coherence plot (from Keita's template) looks fine. Then I saw Ed's comment about the plan changed. So no a2l.

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H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:00, Sunday 04 December 2016 (32154)
Shift Summary - Eve
TITLE: 12/04 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 68.5647Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
SHIFT SUMMARY:
H1 locked 17hrs 10 min. I spoke to Doug Lormand at LLO. PSL work was done a couple hours ago and locking attempts haven't gone so smoothly. He estimate they'll be back in the game at about 1:00AM our time. Occasional CP4 and PSL dust monitors. Quiet, Locked kind of shift. Handing off to Nutsinee.
LOG:
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