TITLE:  12/31 DAY Shift:  16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-04:00PDT), all times posted in UTC     

STATE of H1:   Down & alignment/locking investigation by Kiwamu

Outgoing Operator:  Ed

Quick Summary:

Kiwamu & Ed ran into issues with the INPUT ALIGN section of the Initial Alignment.  Kiwamu mentioned it could be related to the AS_Air photodiode.  (Even though we can't get to INPUT ALIGN, the AS Air spot looks nice [no higher order modes or jumps when flashing AND the IR Xarm flashes have been up to 1.0---so, it looks good...but no INPUT ALIGN).  Current plan is to skip the INPUT ALIGN section of Alignment and try locking.

Additional Notes:

1)  And if you are familiar with Initial Alignment issues of late, you will remember that lately we have been skipping the Dark Michelson portion of Initial Alignment....and this state also uses AS_Air.  So this sounds suspicious....

BUT, 

2)  SRC state of Initial Alignment also uses the AS_Air PD, and we were able to get SRC with no problem.  Suspicious indeed!

Currently waiting for DRMI to lock.

I have incremented the XEND heater HC3 from 13.0 to 13.5 ma. The VEA temperature had fallen a little overnight.

TITLE: Dec 30 OWL Shift 08:00-16:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Uknown

SUPPORT: Kiwamu

INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey

SHIFT SUMMARY: After the quake recovery, which didn’t take long. The IFO was in need of some initial alignment. I never got past INPUT_ALIGN. THe X-Arm would not lock in IR. After trying many things and  a long telephone call with Kiwamu, he decided to come in. The spot looked a little pitchy in the PR2 and IM4 dept. Also SR2 has moved 17µrad in Pitch causing the spot to be higher than usual on the AS_AIR camera. YAW on that same optic was restored. Kiwamu is still working on the problem.

11:27UTC

5.7

1. (cont.)...and here it is. There went a 22+hr lock. 
2. 5.768km S of Masachapa, Nicaragua2015-12-31 10:57:00 UTC36.5 km

36.5 km

11:20UTC IFO locked at 68 Mpc. In other news....5.7 in Nicaraugua is rolling us which is why the range is down. 2.63µm R-Wave expected to roll through here right about now. Fingers crossed. Preparing the lockloss log. :/

TITLE: Dec 31 OWL Shift 08:00-16:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Jeff

QUICK SUMMARY: IFO and environment look to be all in very good shape.

Activity Log: All Times in UTC (PT)

00:00 (16:00) Take over from Corey
08:00 (00:00) Turn over to Ed


End of Shift Summary:

Title: 12/30/2015, Evening Shift 00:00 – 08:00 (16:00 – 00:00) All times in UTC (PT)

Support:  Vinnie, 
 
Incoming Operator: Ed

Shift Detail Summary: Full shift of Observing mode with no apparent problems. We have been in Observing mode for the past 18 plus hours. There were a couple of ETM-Y saturations. The environmental and seismic conditions were quiet all shift. 

The timing error on H1OAF is still there but it has not gotten any worse.  

   First half of the shift has been undisturbed Observing, with the IFO locked for the past 14.75 hours. Power and range remain at 21.8W and ~80Mpc respectively. The wind is up a little (calm to a gentle breeze (0-7mph)) but of no real concern. Forecast for the next 36 hours does not show much change over these conditions. The seismic and microseism slopes continue flat and within upper/lower limits. 

   The timing error on H1OAF has not exceeded the 63uS level. Will continue to monitor; per Dave B. will not address it unless we go out of Observing or it gets worse.        

    Transition Summary:
Title:  12/30/2015, Evening Shift 00:00 – 08:00 (16:00 – 00:00) All times in UTC (PT)
	
State of H1: 00:00 (16:00), IFO in Observing mode for almost 11 hours. Power and range are good.  Environmental conditions are good. The wind is up to a light breeze (2- 7mph). Seismic and microseism have been holding steady for the past 24 hours.      

Outgoing Operator: Corey

TITLE:  12/30 DAY Shift:  16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-04:00PDT), all times posted in UTC     

STATE of H1:   Locked for last 10+hrs at 80Mpc

Incoming Operator:   Jeff B.

Support:  Darkhan on-site fellow, Sheila (Locking Commissioner)

Quick Summary:

Fairly quiet shift for H1.  Environment is somewhat quiet with LVEA useism at 0.4um/s & winds under 10mph.  

Thomas noticed the EX HEPI Pressure flashed a few times on OPS_Overview (but trends didn't show much).  

EX (& MX) Camera is noisy (think this is a known issue).

Shift Activities:

• ETMy Saturations:  18:34, 19:11, 19:47, 21:16, 21:20
• Flurry of injection Verbal Alarms (What 
• 22:27 GRB (LLO contacted)
• 22:59 GRB (LLO contacted)
• 23:05 - 23:26 CP3 Overfill at MY (Gerardo)

After notifying the operator I drove past CS @ 23:06 and arrived at Y-Mid station @ 23:11.
Started filling CP3 @ 23:14, opened the exhaust check valve bypass valve, then opened LLCV bypass valve 1/2 turn, closed the flow 90 seconds later.  6 minutes later I closed the exhaust check valve bypass valve.

Started driving back from Y-Mid @ 23:21, arrived at the CS @ 23:27.

This is a report on comparing two most recent DARMOLGTF and PCAL2DARMTF measurements taken on December 1st (LHO alog 23883) and December 21st (LHO alog 24363) against earlier measurements during ER8/O1.

Kappa values used in the κ_tst and κ_C corrected parameter file for Dec 01, H1DARMparams_1133051601_kappa_corr.m are

% An hour average (30 minutes) kappas starting at GPS time 1133053680
par.kappa_tst = 1.040826;
par.kappa_pu = 1.023252;
par.kappa_A = 1.027452;
par.kappa_C = 0.986240;
par.fc = 334.808296; % [Hz]

Kappa values used in the κ_tst and κ_C corrected parameter file for Dec 21, H1DARMparams_1133051601_kappa_corr.m are

% An hour average (59 minutes) kappas starting at GPS time 1134764580
par.kappa_tst = 1.051995;
par.kappa_pu = 1.022335;
par.kappa_A = 1.037174;
par.kappa_C = 0.990362;
par.fc = 335.746785; % [Hz]

The comparison showed that actuation function residuals mostly remain under about +/- 1% in band [30 .. 500] Hz; sensing function redisuals are under +/- 1% upto 1 kHz.

The parameter files for these measurements were committed to CalSVN at

/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1133051601.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1133051601_kappa_corr.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1133051601_kappa_corr_full.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1134769815.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1134769815_kappa_corr.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/H1DARMparams_1134769815_kappa_corr_full.m

The comparison script and plots were committed to SVN at (r2067)

/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/CompareDARMOLGTFs_O1.m
/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Results/DARMOLGTFs/2015-12-21_H1DARM_O1_cmp_*.pdf

Have received quite a few Injection Verbal Alarms over the last few minutes this morning for CW & TRANS (see attached snapshot).  Do operators need to do anything about this?  I talked with Tom E (L1 Operator) & they did not receive any alarms regarding these injections.

I brought up the CAL_INJ_CONTROL medm and looked at the Continuous Signal section of this window and have not seen anything change (and trended channels for CW and also don't see anything out of the ordinary).

Triggered by Jeff and the quite large variation of the range, I tried to see if there was any correlation with beam motion, especially as sensed by the TRANSMON QPD.

The plot attached shows the variation of the BNS range over the last week, togeher with the best fit obtained with a linear combination of the 8 TRANS QPD signals (X/Y, A/B, PIT/YAW). 

The reconstruction is not paritcularly good, but my feeling is that there might be something interesting here. It's likely that at least some part of the range variation can still be caused by a slighly different alignment state of the IFO.

O1 day 103

model restarts logged for Tue 29/Dec/2015 'Maintenance-lite' day, no restarts reported

TITLE:  12/30 DAY Shift:  16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-04:00PDT), all times posted in UTC     

STATE of H1:   NLN at a solid 80Mpc

Outgoing Operator:  Ed

Quick Summary:

I talked to Ed while driving in to get the low-down of his shift.  Sounds like he had some issues with various things (i.e. ALS alignment, no Dark Michelson [known], OMC troubles @ DC READOUT, etc.)---making me scared of a lockloss!  At any rate, smooth sailing now with LVEA useism at 0.38um/s & minimal winds.

RED Timing error for H1OAF on CDS Overview.  I can not remember if hitting "DIAG RESET" will drop us out of Observing, so I will hold off on hitting that button (but will send an email to Dave/Jim).

We've been cleaning up the scripts used to present the various calibration measurements against the model and each other.

A longer description of script locations and cleanup is LLO alog 23558.

This is basically the same as  LHO alog 21280, except comparing against the O1 model (H1DARMparams_1124827626.m) and trying to use more generic scripts for both sites.

The attached pdfs are results, and can also be found in the aligo calibration svn under:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Results/

The first 3 all measurement types (Free swinging Michelson, ALS DIFF, PCAL) from 3 different days plotted against each other and the O1 model.

The second set of 3 are just the PCAL measurements against the model.