B. Weaver, J. Oberling

After this morning's PSL trip there was a 0.5W increase in IMC-PWR_IN, observed ~15 minutes after reaching NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE.  We started digging in the Guardian code and rediscoverd that the ISS diffracted power gets adjusted by a software PID loop located in the IMC_LOCK guardian; this adjustment is done via changing the ISS 2nd loop reference signal.  At the start of a lock stretch this PID loop is necessary to keep the ISS diffracted power around the predetermined nominal value of 8%.  However today we witnessed that when the diffracted power trended towards the upper threshold (set in the IMC_LOCK guardian code) of 10%, the IMC_LOCK turned on the PID loop, thus increasing the measured IMC-PWR_IN by ~0.5W.

Fil came to let me know that the alarm at Hanford site is going off. They called earlier that there will be an alert system testing between 12:30-13:30.

I switched to Observing a bit at 19:49 after Praxxair hadn't moved for a really long time. I went back to comissioning then the truck took off from Mid Y at 19:51. And back to Observing when it went back to Rt. 10.

The PSL AOM diffracted power was dropping but now stable within desired range (8%). Peter went to turn on the laser Watchdog.

Downloaded Dunca's M.'s new ODC overview screens. They are now linked to the sitemap. The old one are still available.
cds/h1/medm/SITEMAP.adl is in the svn - revision 11744
For what it's worth - I also noticed that some ODC settings for IM's and HTTS's are not up to date.

PSL tripped.

re Int Issue 1127, WP 5521.

Have modified the WHAM5 Top Level Model to terminate the output of the ADC and ground the input of the Coil Driver Corner2 Voltage monitors.

This will eliminate the false Rogue Excitation WD Trips of which this platform has been suffering.  BTL identified the cause finding the bad monitor output.

This is temporary until we swap out the driver and look for a cause in the monitor circuit.

On Tuesday 29 Sept, the model will be installed and the FE restarted after taking the platform down to safe or offline.

After restart, the SDF will have to be repointed to the OBSERVE.snap

Attached is an image of the modified model area: the two don't look like the others.

Modified model commited to svn rev 11742.

The glitch rate hasn't been doing very well in the past hour (since I relocked the ifo) so I dropped the intent bit and reduced the modulation index (17:37 UTC) by 1 dB. The  H1:LSC-MOD_RF45_AM_RFSET value is now 22.2 instead of 23.2. I went back to observing with this configuration and see if it helps with the glitch rate. So far the DMT Omega has been looking much cleaner in the past 10 minutes.

Lockloss after 60 hours locking at NOMINAL LOW NOISE (beat the old record of 46 hours from three days ago). There's a 5.4M earthquake in Argentina at a depth of 198.5km happened right around the time. Terramon suggested this earthquake shouldn't drop us out of lock but LLO has also dropped lock at the same time. USGS reported no bigger earthquake.

TITLE: 09/28 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing at ~64Mpc. The ifo has been locked for 58 HOURS! 

OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ

QUICK SUMMARY: Nominal seismic activity in earthquake band. Rising in seismic activity in anthropogenic band. RF45 behaving okay. Wind below 5 mph. No broadband loud glitches in the past half an hour.

TITLE: 09/28 [Owl Shift]: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing, ~70 MPc
SHIFT SUMMARY: Really quiet first half, then the RF45 Noise would intermittently appear. I would have to adjust H1:LSC-MOD_RF45_AM_RFSET down to fix it. Definitely seems to be getting worse.
INCOMING OPERATOR: Nutsinee

LOG:

• 07:43 - ETMY sat.
• 07:53 - H!SUSETMX Diag reset
• 08:39 - GRB alert
• 09:09 - ETMY sat.
• 09:58 - ETMY sat.
• 10:28 - ETMY sat.
• 10:52 - ETMY sat.
• 10:57-11:17 ETMY sat.
• 10:57 - RF45 Noise start
• 11:17 - Out of Observation to try to fix Noise
• 11:27 - Observing
• 12:57 - RF Noise back
• 13:07 - Out of Observing
• 13:16 - Observing
• 14:17 - ETMY sat.
• 14:19 - ETMY sat.
• 14:21 - ETMY sat.
• 14:25 - Handfull of ETMY sat.
• 14:31 - Out of Observing
• 14:43 - Observing

The RF Noise isn't quite as bad this time, for the past 10min or so it will breifly get noisy, relax for min, then get noisy againa and saturate ETMY.

LLO is down right now so I will take that opportunity to try and fine tune the RF45Set again.

The RF Noise is back again, I will try to tweak H1:LSC-MOD_RF45_AM_RFSET again.

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

We tested a set of waveforms to see if they would saturation the ETMY ESD.

Test the 15Hz waveform

Previously we have tested a waveform that began at 30Hz, see aLog 21838. It was requested we try it from 15Hz instead of 30Hz.

Here are the commands I ran for testing the 15Hz waveform:
ezcawrite H1:CAL-INJ_TINJ_TYPE 1
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 0.1 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 0.25 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 0.5 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt 
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt 
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/coherenttest1from15hz_1126257408.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt

The start times of the injections from the log file (log3.txt):
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127276638, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127276799, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127277026, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127277293, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127277517, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127277840, epoch=0, sample=0

I did not notice any ESD saturations.

John's waveforms

John V. has also provided 10 waveforms that I tested, see aLog 21964.

Cautiously testing the first waveform

Here are the command I entered as I slowly scaled up the first waveform's amplitude: 
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.2 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.5 -d -d >> log3.txt 
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.75 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 0.85 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt

The start times for these injections:
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127278105, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127278209, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127278748, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127279093, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127279520, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127279644, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127280123, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127280433, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127281232, epoch=0, sample=0

The injection that began at 1127280433 was near an ETMY alert from the robot voice. The ETMY alert happened a bit after the injection happened. SO I waited, I repeated the same injection, and there was no alert.

I did one of these injections with a padding of 10 minutes so if the search groups are going to followup one of these injections in more detail this would be a good choice:
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior0_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt # gave this guy a bit of time

The start time of this injection is:
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127281956, epoch=0, sample=0

Testing the other nine waveforms

Then I tested the remaining 9 waveforms by beginning with a scale factor of 0.3333 and incrementing to 1.0. I did these with little spacing between the injections so I do not think this set is worth the analysis groups following up. However, I think the injections with scale factor 1.0 should be looked at for ESD saturation (I believe Andy has a script for that):
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior1_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior1_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior1_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior2_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior2_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior2_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior3_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior3_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior3_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior4_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior4_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior4_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior5_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior5_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior5_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior6_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior6_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior6_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior7_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior7_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior7_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior8_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior8_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior8_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior9_1126259455.out 0.3333 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior9_1126259455.out 0.6666 -d -d >> log3.txt
awgstream H1:CAL-INJ_TRANSIENT_EXC 16384 ../H1/posterior9_1126259455.out 1.0 -d -d >> log3.txt

The start times of these injections:
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282013, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282066, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282120, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282173, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282226, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282278, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282326, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282377, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282422, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282476, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282517, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282577, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282631, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282681, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282727, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282770, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282819, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127282964, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283007, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283048, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283089, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283160, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283204, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283245, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283292, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283338, epoch=0, sample=0
SIStrOpen: Waveform starts at GPS=1127283440, epoch=0, sample=0

As I did these injections I had the SUS-ETMY_L3_ESDOUTF_LL_OUT channel open in dataviewer. I did not see any injection go above the 90000 counts. The highest was posterior0*.out which was near 80000 counts.