no restarts reported.

Actually this is for the past two weeks.

The variation in the frontend laser's pump diode output power coincides with a dip in the relative humidity
in the diode room.  Not surprisingly the relative humidity change is also indicated by the sensor inside the
high power oscillator.  If this signal was used as an alarm, which was intended to detect the suspicion of
a water leak, the laser would have been automatically shut down.

Everything else looks nominal with the only exception being related to the site-wide power glitch.

Attached are some comparison images of ETMy before and after it was cleaned just before Christmas.  I have also attached a pitcure or ETMx before it was cleaned, although it is taken at a much longer exposure and is not as well focused making direct comparision of images difficult.  The three very bright spots which were previously visable on the ETM are no longer visible, these would  have been the three macroscopic pieces of first contact which were removed from the mirror.

Imaging method:

  The camera position is identical in the before and after images.  For all pictures, an image is taken with the test mass is illuminated with IR locked in the arm.  The trans mon is misaligned so there is minimal green light present.  A background image is taken with no IR (ITM misaligned), and this is subtracted from the original image to produce the final image.   The analogue gain is set to 100, a 12 bit image is taken, and each image is made of 100 averages.  The exposure of the ETMx images is 10000micoseconds, and ETMx is taken at 500000 microseconds.

BRDF calculation:

Done using the same method as alog15633, with calibration factor 1.6x10^-10 (µs)(W)/count (same as before).  The incident power is calculated by averaging ASC-TR_A_SUM_OUTPUT and ASC-TR_B_SUM_OUTPUT as outlined by Dan in alog 15431.

ETMy shows a factor of ~6 improvement since being cleaned, but it still doesn't look as good as ETMx.  I will see if I can focus the camera better on ETMx to get a nicer comparison.

J. Kissel, B. Shapiro

The summary says most of it -- we've confirmed with two degrees of freedom of top to top transfer functions. Our best candidate is that the temperature in the VEA is too high. I tried adding a vertical offset in either direction, in hopes that we have enough range to recover the drooping, but it appears we do not. We'll first try restoring the XVEA temperature (if not surpassing it), but we may have to vent again. Cross your fingers.

Details:
Hoping that we could test the newly turned on H1 SUS ETMX ESD for functionailty, Brett and I noticed the optical lever did not appear centered in either the misaligned or aligned state. We could only restore the optical lever centering by putting the alignment offsets at 
                       P        Y       
Force Realignment    +21.3    -122.9
Original Aligned    +417.0      77.2
Change              +395.7     200.1
Further, I noticed that a P request would cause both P and Y motion, and vice versa. 

Betsy then trended the temperature in the VEA, see LHO aLOG 15877, and found it ~2 [deg F] or ~1 [deg C], which corresponds to about 100 [um] sag at the TOP mass (see T1400749, specifically LLO aLOG 15636. I note that this is at the TOP mass, because the lower stages will sag MORE, since there are cascading vertical blade springs.

We then, in the interest of time, took the transfer functions we know are the most sensitive to rubbing: P to P and V to V. These transfer functions are attached, for the various vertical offsets applied; see 2015-01-05_2358_H1SUSETMX_M0_Mono_WhiteNoise_*_0p01to50Hz.pdf. The vertical offsets were +/- 200 000 [ct], equivalent to most of the DAC range, which is roughly +/-115 [um_pk]. We can clearly see that the first several modes have shifted significantly, and several DOFs are cross-coupled in. Notable, however, is the highest-frequency modes are unaffected. This implies that the top-mass is free, and the lower masses are restricted, as seen in a QUAD's mode shapes. This makes sense, because for this most recent cleaning (see LHO aLOG 15744), the *only* activity in chamber was to clamp the test mass briefly for cleaning. Further, sadly, even with 100+ [um] of displacement in vertical, we could not move the the suspension free.

Note, we checked the reaction chain with P and V TFs, and it appears free and clear (see 2015-01-06_0152_H1SUSETMX_R0_WhiteNoise.pdf). We did not check the TMS, since it was not touched.

Finally, because we were amazed that the SUS had sagged more that 100 [um], and that we know that Betsy set the EQ stops when the VEA was at ~70 [deg C], Brett compared the top-mass displacement of the main chain, reaction chain, and TMS to gauge the amount of displacement compared to the other SUS in the chamber, which should have roughly comparable sag because they've the same blade springs and overall suspended mass (roughly). We attach two trends, EX_SAG_21DecTo5Jan.png (a 15 day trend that includes the pump down) and EX_SAG_22DecTo5Jan.jpg (a 14 day trend to zoom in on the long term temperature equilibration). From the 21st, one can see that the removal of air [the first big sharp drop], caused all SUS to drop. However, the main chain is expected to drop 170 [um] (see T1100616), and the reaction is expected to drop 100 [um]. While the reaction chain drops as expected, the main chain only drops ~125 [um], indicating a sort of bottoming out. Further, from the 22nd's trend, we see the temperature dependence is different (the bias has been removed for clarity). 

So, again. Bad news. Hopefully we can pull this SUS back up with temperature!

Sheila, Thomas, Elli, Evan

We locked the Y arm in IR, and then turned on WFS loops which feed back to IM4 and PR2 in order to keep the buildup in the arm maximized. We measured the dc counts on ASAIR_A_LF. Then we unlocked the arm and measured ASAIR_A_LF again. The results are as follows:

• ASAIR_A_LF_OUT, locked: P_on = 1205(5) ct
• ASAIR_A_LF_OUT, unlocked: P_off = 1300(10) ct
• LSC-Y_TR_A_LF_OUT, locked: 11.4(1) ct

Using the formula in LHO#15470, the locked and unlocked values of ASAIR give an equivalent loss of 267(31) ppm on ETMY.

To account for the power in the sidebands, we use the modulation depths given in LHO#15674: Γ₉ = 0.219(12) and Γ₄₅ = 0.277(16). Then the power in the sidebands is P_SB = P_off × (Γ₉²+Γ₄₅²)/2 = 81(7) ct. Then using our new value for the power fraction, A² = (P_on − P_SB)/(P_off − P_SB), we get an equivalent loss of 286(33) ppm on ETMY, not accounting for mode mismatch.

FYI, here is a 45 day Temperature trend of the End-X VEA.  Note, the temperature of the VEA ran away during our vent to clean the ETMx test mass likely due to the energized cleanrooms.  However, the Ex station is 2 deg hotter than it was before the vent.  That said, we probably set the EQ stops during the heat spike of ~70 deg C...

R Savage, P King, J Bartlett, Ed Merilh

This morning we went into the PSL to make some adjustments. The reference cavity transmission was down by quite a lot (~1.5V to ~0.4V) which normally would

have prompted an alignment session and we also noticed that the PMC POWERREFL was about 20% of the POWERTRAN rather than the desired10% or less. The following adjustments were made: 

1. the PMC was aligned by adjusting the light into the PMC using M6 & M7 mirrors. Vertical adjustments only were made bringing the POWERREFL from ~3.1w  to ~1.9w

2. The power level of the 80MHz RF level to AOM02 in the FSS loop was adjusted.

•    started at 1.515w now 1.22w after add 1db atten at PSL rack. (30.87dBm gives 1.22 w)

3.Power measurements were taken at different points in the FSS chain 

• power at AOM = 67mW
• single pass power upstream of M25 51.6mW (77%)
• double pass upstream of EOM 33.8mW (66%, 50%)

• RF PD 290 unlocked and 70 locked
• Adjustment of M25 
• Horz - start 34.8mW now 35.9mW
• Vert - start 34.8mW now 38.5mW
• after locking 37.4mW
• Power after top periscope mirror 32mW

4. PSL FSS TPD DC output at 1.602V 

5. The FE watchdog was reset

Last year, we thought we had found a configuration using sensor correction on HEPI that worked on HAM3. I was looking (Krishna was, too, he saw it first) at the summary pages over break and noticed that HAM3 still looked like it had the .6hz peak. I came in this morning, checked the configuration and did an on/off measurement, and HAM3 still has the same issue, even when we correct to HEPI instead of the ISI, contrary to what we found last time. See attached plot. Solids are measurement taken with sensor correction off, dashed are with HEPI sensor correction.

The HV voltage for the ESD in EX was turned on this afternoon ~3:00PM. Richard spoke to Kyle regarding the vacuum pressure before enabling the HV.

Filiberto C, Richard M.

Kyle, Gerardo 

Y-end turbo+QDP80 pumps valved-out but left running for now

The temperature sensor box for the reference cavity temperature stabilisation was swapped out.

old: S1400577
new: S1107831

The old one had a suspected blown regulator.

The two uncontrolled degrees of freedom in the mode cleaner ( MC1 - MC3 in pitch and MC1 + MC3 in yaw) are now under control.   These two degrees of freedom result in motion of beam spots on the ASC_IMC WFS sensors.   The beam spot on the WFS_B_DC sensor is now controlled with the DOF_4 servo loop in the ASC_IMC model. 

This scheme avoids two potential problems which could arise if we use IM4_TRANS as the sensor of choice for controlling these two degrees of freedom.  

a) IM4 TRANS QPD is affected by the longterm drifts of IM1,2 and 3. We would be folding these drifts back into IMC alignment if we use this sensor.

b) These drifts could further result in a drift of the spots on the WFS (since this is not a controlled parameter) and that could generate RIN due to spurious offsets in RF WFS signals.

During the course of this work I have made the following changes:

1) Offloaded the servo loop outputs using the Offload_WFS script

2) unlocked the mode cleaner and misaligned the MC2_PIT (to prevent flashing of the IMC)

3) centered the prompt reflection on the IMC WFS

4) realigned the MC2 and relocked the mode cleaner

5) the extinguished field landing on the IMC_WFS QPD generates a random offset due to the wierd pattern of the HOM.  This was zeroed out using offsets in the WFS A and B, DC  (PIT and YAW) sensors.  (Had to fix some macro entries in medm screens of the PIT and YAW filter banks so that we can get at the offsets)

6) adjusted the output matrices to  0.5*(MC1-MC3) in Pitch and 0.5*(MC1+MC3) in Yaw.  Attached screen shots show the situation before and after these changes to the input and output matrices.

7)  Checked the stability of the servos.

8) There has been no significant shift of the beam on pointing into the IFO as a result of this work.  Attached pic shows the time trends of IM4_TRANS_PIT and YAW

9) The UGF of these loops is about 100 mHz (a factor three lower than other loops in the ASC_IMC)

10) Next I will look into determining the DC offsets which minimise the jitter to RIN coupling.

11) I have modified some of the indicators in WFS_MASTER medm screen so that the switching on and off  of the servo loops by IMC Guardian is apparent on the screen. 

Havent had a chance to see the effects of some of these changes since the mode cleaner has not been locking in the past couple of hours due to ongoing work in the PSL ref cavity alignment.

Hugh and I were concerned that safe.snaps were not current for all the chambers, so I took the disruptions caused by the PSL work as an opportunity to update I/ETMX, and HAMs 4,5&6, ISI's and HEPI's. HAM5 ISI has some weird masterswitch/dackill coupling, which we've seen before, but I paid more attention to what I had to do to make it work this time. Closing the master switch trips the dackill and the rogue excitation wd. The only way to recover the ISI is to turn on the masterswitch, reset the rogue excitation wd, then reset the dackill. Then guardian can take over and bring the chamber up. None of the other chambers I did required this. Very weird.

Clean up after Dec. 24 power glitch:

Restarted 3 front end computers that rebooted before the boot server was ready (they couldn't find the PXE boot image), restarted 2 other computers that had bad DAQ and timing status on all models.  All restarted normally.  Checked status of frame writer/data concentrator, it was OK.

The DTS should be functional at this point.

no restarts reported

J. Kissel, R. McCarthy

At my request, after seeing that the EY BSC 10 vacuum pressure has dropped below 1e-5 [Torr] (see attached trend), Richard has turned on the H1 SUS ETMY ESD at ~2pm PST. I'm continuing to commission the chain, and will post functionality results shortly. 

Also -- 

I've found the ESD linearization force coefficient (H1:SUS-ETMX_L3_ESDOUTF_LIN_FORCE_COEFF) to be -180000 [ct]. I don't understand from where this number came, and I couldn't find any aLOGs explaining it. I've logged into to LLO, their coefficient is -512000 [ct]. There's no aLOG describing their number either, but I know from conversations with Joe Betz in early December 2014 that he installed this number when the LLO linearization was switched from before the EUL2ESD matrix to after. When before the EUL2ESD matrix the coefficient was -128000 = - 512000/4 so we was accounting for the factor of 0.25 in EUL2ESD matrix. I suspect that -128000 [ct] came from the following simple model of longitudinal force, F_{tot} on the optic as a result of the quadrant's signal voltage, V_{S} and the bias voltage V_{B}, (which we know is incomplete now -- see LLO aLOG 14853):
     F_{tot} = a ( V_{s} - V_{B} )^2
     F_{tot} = a ( V_{s}^2 - 2 V_{s} V_{B} + V_{B}^2)
     F_{lin} = 2 a V_{s} V_{B}
where F_{lin} is the linear term in the force model, and a< is the force coefficient that turns whatever units V_{S} and V_{B} are in ([ct^2] or [V_{DAC}^2] or [V_{ESD}^2]) into longitudinal force on the test mass in [N]. I *think* the quantity (2 a V_{B}) was mistakenly treated as simply (V_{B}) which has always been held at 128000 [ct] (or the equivalent of 390 [V] on the ESD bias pattern) and the scale factor (2 a) was ignored. Or something. But I don't know.

So I try to make sense of these numbers below.

Looking at what was intended (see T1400321) and what was eventually analytically shown (see T1400490), we want the quantity 
       F_{ctrl}
       -------
      2 k V_{B}^2
to be dimensionless, where F_{ctrl} is the force on the optic caused by the ESD. Note that comparing John / Matt / Den's notation against Brett / Joe / my notation, k = a. As written in T1400321, F_{ctrl} was assumed to have units of [N], and V_{B} to have units of [V_{esd}], such that k has units of [ N / (V_{esd}^2) ], and it's the number we all know from John's thesis, k = a = 4.2e-10 [N/V^2]. We now know the number is smaller than that because of the effects of (we think) charge (see, e.g. LHO aLOG 12220, and again LLO aLOG 14853).

In the way that the "force coefficient" has been implemented in the front end code -- as an epics variable that comes into the linearization blockas "Gain_Constant_In,"  (see attached) -- I think the number magically works out to be ... close. As implemented, the linearized quadrant's signal voltage is as shown in Eq. 13 of T1400490, except that the EPICs record, we'll call it G, is actually multiplied in
     V_{S} = V_{C} + V_{B}(1 - sqrt{ 2 [ (F_{ctrl} / V_{B}^2) * G  + 1 + (V_{C}/V_{B}) + (V_{C}/V_{B})^{2} * 1/4 ] )}
Note, that we currently have all of the effective charge voltages set to 0 [ct], so the equation just boils down to the expected
     V_{S} = V_{B}(1 - sqrt{ 2 [ (F_{ctrl} / V_{B}^2) * G  + 1] )}
which means that 
     G == 1 / (2 k) or k = 1 / (2 G)
and has fundamental dimensions of [V_{esd}^2 / N]. So let's take this "force coefficient," G = -512000 [ct], and turn into fundamental units:      
     G = 512000 [ct]             {{LLO}}
         * (20 / 2^18)     [V_{dac} / ct] 
         * 40              [V_{esd} / V_{dac}] 
         * 1 / (V_{B} * a) [(1 / V_{esd}) . (V_{esd}^{2} / N)]
     G = 9.5391e9 [V_{ESD}^2 / N]
   ==>
     k = 5.37e-11 [N/V_{ESD}^2]  {{LLO}}
where I've used V_{B} = 400 [V_{esd}] and the canonical a = 4.2e-10 [N/V_{esd}^2] originally from pg 7 of G0900956. That makes LLO's coefficient  assume the actuation strength is a factor of 8 lower from the canonical number. For the LHO number, 
     G = 180000 [ct]             {{LHO}}
         * (20 / 2^18)     [V_{dac} / ct] 
         * 40              [V_{esd} / V_{dac}] 
         * 1 / (V_{B} * a) [(1 / V_{esd}) . (V_{esd}^{2} / N)]
     G = 3.2697e9 [V_{ESD}^2 / N]
   ==>
     k = 1.53e-10 [N/V_{ESD}^2]  {{LHO}}
Which is within a factor of 3 lower, and if the ESD's as weak as we've measured it to be it may be dead on. So maybe whomever stuck in 180000 is much smarter than I.

For now I leave in 180000 [ct], which corresponds to a force coefficient of a = 1.53e-10 [N/V_{ESD}^2].

Jim, Hugh, Krishna, Jeff, Fabrice:

We keep investigating the sensor corrction issue on HAM3. What we found yesterday is that it depends on which blends are engaged. We can't explain why yet. We did additional tests today:

- we turned off all CPSs of all HAM-ISI and BSC-ISI in the corner station. No change.

- we checked the jumpers of all HAM3 CPS boards. All good.

- we tried to apply large offset in case it would reduce some kind of cable touching/rubbing (+/-400 um in HEPI Z, and +/-400 um in ISI X,Y, Z). No change.

Finally, we tried to do the Z sensor correction to HEPI. In the plot attached:

- Red curves is HAM3 ISI isolated, no sensor correction

- Green Curve, we turn ON the sensor correction in X and Y to the HAM-ISI

- Blue Curve, we also turn on Z sensor correction to ISI. The 0.6 HZ peak shows up. For some reason it also reduces X at the microseism.

- Brown, we do the Z sensor correction to HEPI instada of ISI. The peak is still there in the CPS, but not in the GS13. It's unclear why.

The last configuration looks good from the GS13s,  but it's unclear yet how good it is for the cavity. More info on that is coming.