Beginning hardware injection test. The schedule will be updated with:

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Locked in LOW_NOISE at 22.2W, 68Mpc range. LHO has been in Observation mode for past 10 hours. LLO has also been locked with comparable range during this stretch. Wind is calm (1 to 3 Mph); Seismic activity has been quite during the shift. 

   There have been a few ETMY saturation events, but have not observed any problems with the RF45 EOM.    

Title:  10/11/2015, Evening Shift 23:00 – 07:00 (16:00 – 00:00) All times in UTC (PT)

State of H1: At 23:00 (16:00) Locked at NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE, 22.2W, 70Mpc. 

Outgoing Operator: TJ

Quick Summary: Environmental conditions are good. IFO in Observing mode. All appears to be normal.       

Title: 10/11 Day Shift 15:00-23:00 UTC (8:00-16:00 PST).  All times in UTC.

State of H1: Unlocked, high winds and high microseism

Shift Summary: Locked until 21:24, haven't been able to relock since due to environment issue.

Incoming operator: Jeff B.

Activity log:

• 16:21 Reached Nominal Low Noise, Sheila will start A2L measurements
• 17:06 Observing, accepted blend changes in SDF
• 17:29 ETMY sat
• 18:03 ETMY sat
• 18:58 Realized that I've been spelling summary as "summery" in all of my ops posts
• 19:25 Jeff K opened H1CALCS Tp 0
• 20:22 Jeff K closed H1CALCS Tp 0
• 21:40 ETMY sat (x2)
• 22:23 ETMY sat

J. Kissel, M. Oliver

Miquel and I are doing some fun Sunday afternoon investigations of the 1 [Hz] comb for the CW group (see LIGO wiki page). Since we see that the power of the comb evolves with time, we've gathered some DELTAL EXTERNAL data as a test point to compare it against the version stored in the frames. Accessing the test point via DTT opened up a test point, naturally. One would have nominally expected opening up test points on any front end to take us out of observation mode BUT CAL-DELTAL_EXTERNAL happens to be computed on the same front end as the continuous wave injections, which -- because they need to access the H1:CAL-INJ_CW_EXC test point continuously -- has been flagged as "OK to have test points activated." (Note, this is why Giles, the H1 IFO automated voice robot, announced that CW injections had started when I hit "start" on the first bit of data gather in the DTT session). Of course, this is a monitor test point, so it had zero effect on the functionality/operation of the IFO, so remaining in observation mode was totally acceptable (even though admittedly, we didn't think of it when getting started). 

The test point was activated at 19:25 UTC (12:25 PDT) to 20:22 UTC (01:22 PDT).

Stay tuned for analysis of the data.

Jeff Kissel noticed a ~300hz line in the glitch gram on the control room wall. Seems like it started with this lock but has been getting worse. Screen shots attached.

Observing at ~70Mpc.

Winds have picked up a bit, around 15-20mph, so I am not sure if this lock will hold with these blends. On the front Striptool AS90 has a fairly large oscillation.

Microseism seems to be on its way down, very slowly. We are now in a range of .3-.5 um/s.

LLO is still observing as well.

Observing at ~75 Mpc. LLO is also in observing.

Wind < 10mph

Microseism  - High (blends are changed to counter this, see alog22410)

Jim W. suggestd that we try out the 45mHz blends if we can't lock due to the high microseism. Just before I came on shift, Travis and Sheila switched them over for the X and Y directions on BS, ETMY, EMTX, ITMY, and ITMX. They decided to do this because of the low winds and high microseism.  This seemed to have helped us out quite a bit. Before the change, they struggled getting to lock DRMI, with them switched it only took us a few tries before we were all the way to Nominal Low Noise.

I will be accepting these blend changes in the SDF so we can move into Observing.

Furture operators should change them back if the winds pick up (Sheila says anything above 20 might be too high for these blends), but keep in mind this may drop lock.

Back to Nominal Low Noise after being out for ~19hours. LLO is still down so Sheila will run the A2L script and then we will clear up the SDF and move on to Observing.

Note: We are currently running with the 45mHz blends in the X and Y directions for all BSC ISI's to cope with the microseism.

Josh, Andy

Yesterday's hveto page found a very constant rate of 30-40Hz glitches in DARM were vetoed by a population of 10-15Hz glitches in the End-Y QPDs (ASC-Y_TR_{A,B}_{NSUM,YAW,PIT}_OUT_DQ). Fig1 shows the time/freq of the DARM triggers and the ASC-Y triggers that vetoed them, Fig 2 shows the time/freq of all DARM triggers and the ones that got vetoed, and Fig 3 shows how the ranking statistic found all ASC-Y channels to be correlated. A .txt file with the times of vetoed DARM triggers is attached in case folks want to look at other channels around those times. 

Fig 4 shows DARM, figs 5,6 show ASC-Y channels, figs 7,8 show zoomed specgrams to see the frequency. What we see are strong scattering arches around 8 and 16 Hz in all of the End-Y QPD channels, at the same time as similarly shaped fringes in DARM around 48Hz. I think DARM (more sensitive to scatter, potentially, at higher frequencies)  is seeing the 6th overtone of the 8Hz arch (multiple reflections?). The higher overtones are sometimes visible in the QPDs too. 

So...what scatterer/optics is moving too much? We know [1] that f_fringe(t) = 􏰁􏰁􏰁􏰁􏰁abs(2 v_sc(t) / lambda)􏰁. Where v_sc(t) is the time derivative of the position of the scatterer x_sc(t). The time between peaks is about 3.5 seconds, but that is half the period because of the abs() so it's a ~7 second period or 0.14Hz motion of the scatterer. 􏰁􏰁􏰁 

Note: We checked and the beam diverter is closed (H1:SYS-MOTION_Y_BDIV_A_POSITION = 1). 

Note 2: Today's hveto page hasn't finished yet, but no reason to believe this isn't happening still.  

[1] Accadia, T., et al. "Noise from scattered light in Virgo's second science run data." Classical and Quantum Gravity 27.19 (2010): 194011.

Title: 10/11 Owl Shift 7:00-15:00 UTC (0:00-8:00 PST).  All times in UTC.

State of H1: Aligning

Shift Summary: Unlocked when I arrived due to high winds.  Unable to complete initial alignment due to many issues I haven't seen before.  Called Sheila and she volunteered to come to the site to help.  When Sheila arrived, she noticed that microseism was high enough that it was giving me troubles locking.  We decided to try Jim's 45 mHz ISI blends, which helped enough to get further than I previously had.  However, the BS ISI stage 2 tripped after a few minutes.

Incoming operator: TJ

Activity log:

8:23 cleared H1IOPASC0 timing error

I ran a BruCo scan for LHO. The full report is available here:

https://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~gabriele.vajente/bruco_lho_1128339017/

Here is my excerpt:

• In the 10-20 Hz region the largest coherence is with DHARD_P (fig 1)
• MICH/SRCL coherence is 4-10 times below the sensitivity at low frequency, so no worrysome yet (unless the coupling is non stationary, to be investigated). Fig. 2 and 3
• PRCL is lower than the other LSC loops (fig. 4)
• The PSL periscope is a win as usual. The largest coherence is in the region 304-368 Hz, but there is a bit of lower coherence in many other bands: 150-155 / 175-185  / 202 / 240-260 / 280-290 / 551-555 / 615-623 Hz (fig. 5)
• I see coherence with OMC-LSC_DITHER_OUT at few frequencies: 80 / 96 / 128 / 288 Hz, not sure what this means
• There is coherence with PEM-EY_MAG_EBAY_SEIRACK at 281.5 Hz and 283.5 Hz.
• Above 500 Hz I can see low coherence with PEM-EY_MAG_EBAY_SUSRACK (fig. 6). This is rather small, but being an environmental channel it might be important to investigate it further.

Beside these, there are few more puzzling coherences at higher frequencies:

• 453 Hz ASC-REFL_A_RF9_I_YAW and RF45

• 485 Hz ASC-REFL_A_RF9_I_PIT and RF45 / ISI-HAM2_BLND_GS13RY_IN1_DQ

• 991.5 - 996 Hz / 1004.5 Hz ASC-OMC_A/B_SUM_OUT

• 1954.5 Hz OMC-LSC_I_OUT

• 2449.0 Hz / 2458.5 Hz LSC-PRCL_OUT

• In the region between 3300 Hz and 3400 Hz SRCL gets to quite high coherence

• 3619 Hz PRCL / SRCL / LSC-REFL_SERVO_CTRL_OUT / LSC-MCL_IN1/OUT