TITLE: 09/27 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing at ~73 Mpc. The ifo has been locked 42 hours now.

SUPPORT: Mike

QUICK SUMMARY: The RF45 hasn't been acting up much (Laura suggested it probably was acting up between ~20:00-21:00 UTC, but the glitches was probably settle since it didn't set off the Verbal alarm) . Hardly any ETMY glitches alarm today. Wind speed ~10 mph. Seismic activity in 0.03-0.1 Hz band coming back to nominal.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick

ACTIVITY LOG:

NO ACIVITY. It's been a boring shift (good for science!).

A 4.9M earthquake in Chile is coming through. Wind speed ~10mph. Increasing seismic activity in the earthquake band. Only one ETMY glitch caused by the 45 MHz so far.

Parameters:

GPS Start Time = 1127333892 # Beginning of time span, in GPS seconds, to search for injections
GPS End Time = 1127420292 # Ending of time span, in GPS seconds, to search for injections
Check Hanford IFO = True # Check for injections in the Hanford IFO frame files.
Check Livingston IFO = True # Check for injections in the Livingston IFO frame files.
IFO Coinc Time = 0.01 # Time window, in seconds, for coincidence between IFO injection events.
Check ODC_HOFT = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in HOFT frames.
Check ODC_RAW = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in RAW frames.
Check ODC_RDS = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in RDS frames.
Check GDS_HOFT = True # Check GDS-CALIB_STATE_VECTOR channel in HOFT frames.
Report Normal = True # Include normal (IFO-coincident, consistent, and scheduled for network injections and consistent and scheduled for IFO injections) injections in report
Report Anomalous = True # Include anomalous (non-IFO-coincident, inconsistent, or unscheduled) injections in report

No injections found. No scheduled injections within the time span checked.

TITLE: 09/27 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing at ~70Mpc. The ifo has been locked for 36 HOURS!

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ed M.

QUICK SUMMARY: 45 MHz EOM driver hasn't been glitching since shift started. Mike called to give advice on how to fix GraceDB query issue. I'm reading 0 mph wind speed everywhere on the PEM weather medm screen. A little bit of seismic activity in 3-10 Hz band which seems to correspond to the slight drop in BNS range but otherwise everything else looks quiet. The ifo is locking and going strong.

ER8 day 33 (last day). O1 days 1 - 9

Fri 18 - Mon 21: No Restarts Reported

model restarts logged for Tue 22/Sep/2015
2015_09_22 10:57 h1nds0
2015_09_22 10:57 h1nds1
2015_09_22 11:22 h1broadcast0

Maintenance Tuesday. NDS starts related to offloading raw minute trends from SSD. Detchar O1 DMT channel list applied to broadcaster.

Wed 23 - Sat 26: No Restarts Reported

I simply logged in to the alog using my credential on Ops station. I opened up GraceDB webpage and noticed that the GraceDB querying is good again.

The ext_alert.py script which periodically views GraceDB had failed. I have just restarted it, instructions for restarting are in https://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/wiki/ExternalAlertNotification

Getting this process to autostart is now on our high priority list (FRS3415).

here is the error message displayed before I did the restart.

 File "ext_alert.py", line 150, in query_gracedb

    return query_gracedb(start, end, connection=connection, test=test)

  File "ext_alert.py", line 150, in query_gracedb

    return query_gracedb(start, end, connection=connection, test=test)

  File "ext_alert.py", line 135, in query_gracedb

    external = log_query(connection, 'External %d .. %d' % (start, end))

  File "ext_alert.py", line 163, in log_query

    return list(connection.events(query))

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ligo/gracedb/rest.py", line 441, in events 

    uri = self.links['events']

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ligo/gracedb/rest.py", line 284, in links  

    return self.service_info.get('links')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ligo/gracedb/rest.py", line 279, in service_info

    self._service_info = self.request("GET", self.service_url).json()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ligo/gracedb/rest.py", line 325, in request

    return GsiRest.request(self, method, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ligo/gracedb/rest.py", line 201, in request

    response = conn.getresponse()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1038, in getresponse

    response.begin()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 415, in begin

    version, status, reason = self._read_status()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 371, in _read_status

    line = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 476, in readline

    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 241, in recv

    return self.read(buflen)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 160, in read

    return self._sslobj.read(len)

ssl.SSLError: The read operation timed out

TITLE:  Sep 26 OWL Shift 23:00-07:00UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

LOCK DURATION: Entire Shift

SUPPORT: N/A

INCOMING OPERATOR: Nutsinee

Activity log:

09:13 SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sun Sep 27 9:13:21 UTC)

09:13 SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sun Sep 27 9:13:23 UTC) .6Mpc
10:19 SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sun Sep 27 10:19:5 UTC) 3Mpc

11:45 SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sun Sep 27 11:45:40 UTC) odd...no loss of range

12:21 Noticed the GraceDB quey failure.

14:15 Mike checked in by telephone. He suggested that I e-mail Duncan, Leo and Peter S about the GraceDB query failure that has existed for the duration of my shift.

Shift Summary: Smooth sailing with the IFO locked at 74Mpc. Wind speeds <10mph. 4 ETMY glitches. No obtrusive seismic or weather activity.  I e-mailed Duncan, Leo and Peter S about the GraceDB query failure that has existed for the duration of my shift. Handing off to Nutsinee.

Mid-Shift Summary: Smooth sailing so far with the IFO locked at 74Mpc. Wind speeds have decreased to <5mph. 3 ETMY glitches so far.

TITLE: Sep 27 OWL Shift 07:00-15:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick

QUICK SUMMARY:. IFO Locked at 70Mpc/22.9W. No injections are running. All lights are off in LVEA, MID, END and PSL. Wind is below 15mph. Microseism seems to be riding steady @ ~.1µm/s. EQ seismic seems nominally steady @ .2µm/s. No noticable 45Mhz RFAM glitching noticible in triggers, in the last hour at least. Verbal Alarms is down on FOM,Video5.

TITLE: 09/26 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing, ~71 MPc
SHIFT SUMMARY: Remainder of shift quiet except for SUS ETMY saturations. Wind has come back below 20 mph. Seismic in 0.03 - 0.1 Hz is coming down at end X and end Y.
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ed
ACTIVITY LOG:

03:59 - 4:06 UTC Stepped out of control room

ETMY SUS Saturations:

SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 0:2:19 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 0:14:27 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 0:57:42 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 2:23:2 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 2:23:5 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 2:40:7 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 2:41:41 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 3:20:30 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 4:0:59 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 4:18:21 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 5:0:57 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 5:7:52 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Sat Sep 27 6:20:14 UTC)

23:12 UTC Tour in control room
before 23:36 UTC Tour out of control room
23:37 - 23:39:10 UTC Stepped out of control room
23:55 UTC Tour in control room
00:13 UTC Tour out of control room
00:30 - 00:39 UTC Stepped out of control room

7 SUS ETMY saturations. Range is starting to trend down over last hour, now at ~ 65 MPc. Winds have ranged up to 30 mph. Seismic in 0.03 - 0.1 Hz band at end X and end Y has come up to ~ .1 um/s. Corner station is at ~ .01 um/s. Have remained in observation mode since beginning of shift.

Executive summary: 

 In regard to narrow lines, early O1 data resembles early ER8 data: a pervasive 16-Hz comb persists throughout the CW search band (below 2000 Hz); there is a notable 1-Hz comb below 100 Hz (0.5-Hz offset); and other sporadic combs persist.
 On the other hand, there are distinct improvements: noise floor is cleaner nearly everywhere and substantially lower in the 10-70 Hz band; non-linear upconversion around quad violin modes and harmonics is much reduced; some combs and isolated lines have disappeared; and the OMC alignment dither frequencies have moved out of the CW search band (hurray!).
 Oh the third hand, new artifacts have appeared or strengthened: a sporadic 8-Hz comb suspected before is confirmed; a 1-Hz comb (no offset) has emerged below 70 Hz; a broad bulge appears in the 1240-1270 Hz band.


Details: 

Using 104.5 hours of FScan-generated, Hann-windowed, 30-minute SFTs, I have gone through the first 2000 Hz of the DARM displacement spectrum (CW search band) to identify lines that could contaminate CW searches.
This study is very similar to prior studies of ER7 data and ER8 data, but since this is my first O1 report, I will repeat below some earlier findings.

Some sample displacement amplitude spectra are attached directly below, but more extensive sets of spectra are attached in zipped files. One set is for O1 sub-band spectra with labels (see code below), and one set is an overlay of early ER8 spectra (50 hours) and the early O1 spectra. As usual, the spectra look worse than they really are because single-bin lines (0.5 mHz wide) appear disproportionately wide in the graphics

A flat-file line list is attached with the same alphabetic coding as in the figures.

Findings:

 A 16-Hz comb pervades the entire 0-2000 Hz band (and well beyond, based on daily FScans)
 A typically much weaker and sporadic 8-Hz comb (odd harmonics) is also pervasive - previously suspected, now confirmed (all harmonics are labeled in figures, even when not visible)
 A 1-Hz comb with a 0.5-Hz offset is visible from 15.5 Hz to 78.5 Hz (slightly wider span than before)
 A new 1-Hz with zero offset is visible from 20.0 Hz to 68.0 Hz
 A 99.9989-Hz comb is visible to its 8th harmonic (was previously visible to its 13th harmonic)
 The 60-Hz power mains comb is visible to its 5th harmonic (was previously visible to its 9th harmonic)
 There is a sporadic comb-on-comb with 0.088425-Hz fine spacing that appears with limited spans in three places near harmonics of 77, 154 and 231 Hz (ambiguity in precise fundamental frequency)
 There is a 31.4149-Hz comb visible to its 2nd harmonic
 The OMC alignment dithers have been moved to above 2000 Hz (thanks!)
 Upconversion around the quad violin modes and their harmonics is much reduced, although the strengths of the higher harmonics themselves remain high. To be more specific, the fundamental and higher harmonics of the upconversion itself (integer harmonics) due to the fundamental violin harmonics are highly suppressed, while the higher harmonics of the violin modes themselves  (not integer harmonics)  remain high. 
 A number of previously seen combs are no longer apparent:  59.3155 Hz, 59.9392 Hz, 59.9954 Hz and 75.3 Hz
 A variety of single lines have disappeared, and new ones have appeared (see attached line list) 
 Compared to early ER8 data, the noise floor is slightly lower in most of the band and significantly lower in the 10-70 Hz band, but there is a significant new bulge in the 1240-1270 Hz band


Line label codes in figures:

b - Bounce mode (quad suspension)
r - Roll mode (quad suspension)
Q - Quad violin mode and harmonics
B - Beam splitter violin mode and harmonics
C - Calibration lines
M - Power mains (60 HZ)
s - 16-Hz comb
e - 8-Hz comb (odd harmonics)
O - 1-Hz comb (0.5-Hz offset)
o - 1-Hz comb (zero offset)
H - 99.9989-Hz comb
J - 31.4149-Hz comb
K - 0.088425-Hz comb
x - single line

Figure 1 - 0-2000 Hz (Early O1 data with line labels)
Figure 2 - 20-100 Hz sub-band (shows complexity of combs below ~70 Hz
Figure 3 - 1300-1400 Hz sub-band (shows how clean the noise floor is away from 8-Hz, 16-Hz lines at high frequencies
Figure 4 - 0-2000 Hz (Early ER8 and O1 data comparison, no labels)

Attachments:
* Zip file with miscellaneous sub-band spectra for early O1 data (with line labels)
* Zip file with sub-band spectra comparing early ER8 and early O1 data
* Flat-file list of lines marked on figures

LHO hosted a public event this afternoon.  Arrival time at LSB = 1:00 - 2:30 PM PM.  Departure time = 3:00 - 5:00 PM.  Group size = ~170 adults/children of all ages.  Vehicles at the LSB = ~50 passenger cars (very uncertain).  A series of three walking tours between 3:00 and 5:00 brought a total of ~120 people into the control room during this time span. 

TITLE: 09/26 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing at ~75 Mpc

SUPPORT: Mike

QUICK SUMMARY: Less 45MHz glitches during my shift. DHARD Y boost turned off (as MIke requested). Wind speed coming below 20 mph. Several small earthquakes throughout the shift.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick

ACTIVITY LOG:

18:07 Jodi to high bay area looking for contamination control stuff. Still observing.

18:14 Jodi out

19:08 Switched the ifo to Commissioning to turn off the DHARD Y boost filter. 

19:09 Back to Observing

22:33 A big tour group starting to march in the control room. ~20 adults. There was also a 5.1M earthquake at Pacific-Antarctic Ridge arrving at about the same time so there were glitches in DARM during the time. Just in case anyone wants to look into outreach noise. 

22:46 Group leaving.

23:00 Handing off to Patrick.

TITLE: 09/26 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing at ~71 MPc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
QUICK SUMMARY: Lights appear off in the LVEA, PSL enclosure, end X, end Y and mid X. I can not tell from the camera if they are off at mid Y. Seismic in 0.03 - 0.1 Hz band is coming down from a small peak to ~.7 um/s. Seismic in 0.1 - 0.3 Hz band is around .09 um/s. Wind speeds are less than 20mph, may be coming down.

The LIGO-Caltech systems folks have set up a dedicated account for GWIstat and the associated processes that Chad set up to feed it information about the LIGO detectors, running on the ldas-grid machine at Caltech.  The new URL for the GWIstat display is https://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~gwistat/, and it does not require ligo.org authentication any more.  The old URL now redirects to the new URL.  (At least I think so -- let me know if you run into any problems.)

Due to moving GWIstat to its new location, the durations of the current observing segments are not reported correctly.

Parameters:

GPS Start Time = 1127247535 # Beginning of time span, in GPS seconds, to search for injections
GPS End Time = 1127333935 # Ending of time span, in GPS seconds, to search for injections
Check Hanford IFO = True # Check for injections in the Hanford IFO frame files.
Check Livingston IFO = True # Check for injections in the Livingston IFO frame files.
IFO Coinc Time = 0.01 # Time window, in seconds, for coincidence between IFO injection events.
Check ODC_HOFT = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in HOFT frames.
Check ODC_RAW = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in RAW frames.
Check ODC_RDS = True # Check ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ channel in RDS frames.
Check GDS_HOFT = True # Check GDS-CALIB_STATE_VECTOR channel in HOFT frames.
Report Normal = True # Include normal (IFO-coincident, consistent, and scheduled for network injections and consistent and scheduled for IFO injections) injections in report
Report Anomalous = True # Include anomalous (non-IFO-coincident, inconsistent, or unscheduled) injections in report

All injections found were UNSCHEDULED CBC injections in H1. There were no injections found in L1. All injections were consistent.