Posted are the November data for the 3IFO desiccant cabinet in the LVEA and the two Dry Box storage cabinets in the VPW. No interesting or disturbing trends are apparent.   

 Laser Status:

18:27 (10:27) Alert - "CW Injection running"
18:30 (10:30) Alert - "CW Injection inactive" 

20:03 (12:03) Out of Observing for vacuum work at X2-8 (WP #5632)
20:16 (12:16) Kyle & Gerardo – Finished at X2-8, coming back to CS. IFO back to Observing mode

   Good observing shift so far. IFO locked in Observing mode for past 19 hours (less aLOGed drops to Commissioning mode), with a range around 80Mpc. Environmental conditions remain good. There have been 3 ETM-Y saturations.

This work was done on Tuesday Dec. 1 2015.

The following EPICS channels were created and added to the DAQ:

X2-8:

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_OVERRANGE

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_SENSOR

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_TORR

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_TRIP

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_UNDERRANGE

H1:VAC-EX_X6_PT527_PRESS_VALID

Y2-8:

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_OVERRANGE

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_SENSOR

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_TORR

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_TRIP

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_UNDERRANGE

H1:VAC-EY_Y6_PT427_PRESS_VALID

h1ecaty1

ran svn update of C:/SlowControls (see h1ecaty1_update.png for updates (the updates not shown were TwinCAT3 related))
made changes to C:/SlowControls/TwinCAT/Source/Current/Interferometer/End/Plc1.pro to add variables for X2-8 and Y2-8 vacuum gauges and commited changes to svn (revision 2553)
ran svn update of C:/SlowControls

LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATY1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Update from source

C:/SlowControls/Target/H1ECATY1/H1ECATY1.tsm:
PLC - Configuration: PLC1: ReScan
Undisabled Vacuum Gauge NEG (BPG 402)
Saved

LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATY1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Compile

C:/SlowControls/Target/H1ECATY1/H1ECATY1.tsm:
PLC - Configuration: PLC1: ReScan
Saved
PLC - Configuration: PLC2: ReScan
PLC - Configuration: PLC3: ReScan
Saved

Put TwinCAT into configuration mode and scanned for devices
Found new vacuum gauge and 2 fiber converter boxes
Added the new vacuum gauge and fiber converter boxes to the configuration

Put into free run
Changed pressure readout for the new vacuum gauge to torr and saved to nonvolatile memory

Linked the variables for the new gauge
Changed the name of the new gauge and fiber converter boxes
Generate Mappings
Check Configuration
Activate Configuration
Put into run mode
Saved, copied to C:/SlowControls/Scripts/Configuration/H1ECATY1/SYS, commited to svn
Ran svn update on C:/SlowControls

(see h1ecaty1_config.png for picture of system manager configuration)

Stopped running EPICS IOC
LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATY1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Everything
PLC1 and PLC3 did not run, had to open by hand, login and run

burtrestored all PLCs to 6:10 AM (local time)
 

h1ecatx1

ran svn update of C:/SlowControls (see h1ecatx1_update_1.png, h1ecatx1_update_2.png, h1ecatx1_update_2.png for updates)
LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATX1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Update from source

C:/SlowControls/Target/H1ECATX1/H1ECATX1.tsm:
PLC - Configuration: PLC1: ReScan
PLC - Configuration: PLC2: ReScan
PLC - Configuration: PLC3: ReScan
Saved

LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATX1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Compile

C:/SlowControls/Target/H1ECATX1/H1ECATX1.tsm:
PLC - Configuration: PLC1: ReScan
PLC - Configuration: PLC2: ReScan
PLC - Configuration: PLC3: ReScan
Saved

Undisabled Vacuum Gauge NEG (BPG 402)
Saved

Put TwinCAT into configuration mode and scanned for devices
Found only fiber converter box
Tried a few more times, eventually found new vacuum gauge and 2 fiber converter boxes
Added the new vacuum gauge and fiber converter boxes to the configuration

Changed the name of the new gauge and fiber converter boxes

Put into free run
Changed pressure readout for gauge to torr and saved to nonvolatile memory

Linked the variables for the new gauge
Generate Mappings
Check Configuration
Activate Configuration
Put into run mode
Saved, copied to C:/SlowControls/Scripts/Configuration/H1ECATX1/SYS, commited to svn
Ran svn update on C:/SlowControls

(see h1ecatx1_config.png for picture of system manager configuration)

Stopped running EPICS IOC
LIGO TwinCAT Target Configuration: H1ECATX1: SYS, PLC1, PLC2, PLC3: Everything
PLC2 and PLC3 did not run, had to open by hand, login and run

burtrestored all PLCs to 6:10 AM (local time)
 

Attached is a plot of the reference cavity transmission and room temperature.  Also plotted are
the quadrant signals from the quadrant photodiode in the ISS box.  The transmission didn't
deteriorate too badly after yesterday's tweak.

The second plot shows the pre-modecleaner temperature and the output of its heater.  Whilst the
heater's job is to keep the pre-modecleaner PZT voltage within its range, it does appear that
the lengthening of the body couples to the pitch (mostly) of the output beam.  THis might be due
to the way the pre-modecleaner body is clamped to its container.

O1 day 75

model restarts logged for Tue 01/Dec/2015
2015_12_01 12:32 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:33 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:34 h1broadcast0
2015_12_01 12:34 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:34 h1nds0
2015_12_01 12:34 h1nds1
2015_12_01 12:34 h1tw0
2015_12_01 12:34 h1tw1
2015_12_01 12:37 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:44 h1nds0
2015_12_01 12:46 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:47 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:51 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:56 h1dc0
2015_12_01 12:58 h1nds0
2015_12_01 13:00 h1broadcast0
2015_12_01 13:00 h1nds1
2015_12_01 13:00 h1tw0
2015_12_01 13:00 h1tw1

Maintenence day. Beckhoff and FMCS changes. Initial DAQ restart failed due to monit respawning too rapidly and over-populating the running configuration directory.

O1 day 74

model restarts logged for Mon 30/Nov/2015 No restarts reported

Add 125ml water to crystal chiller. Diode chiller level is OK.

Title:  12/02/2015, Evening Shift 16:00 – 00:00 (08:00 – 16:00) All times in UTC (PT)
	
State of H1: 08:00 (16:00), The IFO locked at NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE, 22.2w, 81Mpc.  

Outgoing Operator: TJ

Quick Summary:  IFO locked in Observing mode for the past 15 hours, with exceptions for commissioning mode as noted in the aLOG. Environmental conditions are good – wind is calm (0-3mph), seismic activity quiet.   

• Title: 12/2 OWL Shift: 08:00-16:00UTC (00:00-8:00PDT), all times posted in UTC
  

• State of H1: Observing at 77Mpc for 16hr. Bubba still on tractor clearing snow.
  

• Shift Summary: Boring shift (a good thing!) except for the snow.

• Incoming Operator: Jeff B

• Activity Log:

• 12:16 - Out of Observing to clear timing error
• 12:16 - Observing
• 13:34 - GRB
• 15:06 - Tractor clearing snow in the parking lots, dip in range.

At 15:06 UTC Bubba told me that he was headed out to clear the parking lots of snow. Since then there has been about a 5Mpc drop in range. Coincidence?

J. Kissel

I've taken new DARM Open Loop Gain and PCAL2DARM transfer functions for the bi-weekly(-ish) full-frequency-span confirmation of the time variation in calibration / IFO parameters. As a by-product of these two transfer functions, we're able to confirm that the front-end, CAL-CS, DELTAL_EXTERNAL calibration (and therefore the low-latency GDS pipeline output) is still within the desired precision. I attach screenshots of the measurements. They will be processed in greater detail tomorrow, once we have the evening's kappa values (i.e. what the calibration lines are telling us the systemaic errors are in the model parameters). Stay tuned, but things continue to look exquisite. Great job CAL team!

DARM OLGTF Template:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Measurements/DARMOLGTFs/2015-12-01_H1_DARM_OLGTF_7to1200Hz.xml

Corresponding Exports:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Measurements/DARMOLGTFs/
2015-12-01_H1_DARM_OLGTF_7to1200Hz_A_ETMYL3LOCKIN2_B_ETMYL3LOCKEXC_coh.txt
2015-12-01_H1_DARM_OLGTF_7to1200Hz_A_ETMYL3LOCKIN2_B_ETMYL3LOCKEXC_tf.txt
2015-12-01_H1_DARM_OLGTF_7to1200Hz_A_ETMYL3LOCKIN2_B_ETMYL3LOCKIN1_coh.txt
2015-12-01_H1_DARM_OLGTF_7to1200Hz_A_ETMYL3LOCKIN2_B_ETMYL3LOCKIN1_tf.txt

PCAL2DARM TF Template:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Measurements/PCAL/2015-12-01_PCALY2DARMTF_7to1200Hz.xml

Corresponding Exports:
2015-12-01_PCALY2DARMTF_7to1200Hz_A_PCALRX_B_DARMIN1_coh.txt
2015-12-01_PCALY2DARMTF_7to1200Hz_A_PCALRX_B_DARMIN1_tf.txt

Activity Log: All Times in UTC (PT)

15:55 (07:55) Jeff B. – In the LVEA to take 3IFO storage temp/humidity data
16:00 (08:00) Peter – Into the PSL for alignment work (WP #5626)
16:08 (08:08) Take over from TJ
16:15 (08:15) Gerardo – Going to End-Y to pull high voltage cable for Ion pump at Y2-8
16:20 (08:20) Lockloss – Jeff K. running charge measurements at End-X
16:21 (08:21) Jeff K – Charge measurements on ETM-X
16:24 (08:24) Filiberto – Going to End-Y for cabling work (WP #5630)
16:26 (08:26) Bubba – Going down Y-Arm to survey for rock delivery
16:50 (08:50) John & Nutsinee – Going to TCS-X table to check view ports
16:50 (08:50) American Rock – Rock delivery along Y-Arm
16:55 (08:55) Joe – Going into the LVEA 
16:58 (08:58) Patrick – Starting on software side of WP #5630
17:00 (09:00) Jodi & Mitch – Going to End-Y to start garb room change (WP #5628)
17:08 (09:08) Bubba & Betsy – Going into LVEA to move Quad boxes – Using crane
17:18 (09:18) N2 delivery to End-X
18:35 (10:35) Filiberto – Finished at End-Y – Going to End-X (WP #5630)
18:41 (10:41) Joe – Going into LVEA to unplug battery chargers
18:42 (10:42) John & Nutsinee – Out of the LVEA
18:45 (10:45) Jeff K. – Going to End-Y to reset railed ESD
18:50 (10:50) Joe – Going to End-Y to check batteries
19:10 (11:10) Nutsinee – Going into the LVEA to work on HWS alignment
19:12 (11:12) Gerardo & Kyle – Back from X-Arm
19:15 (11:15) Contractor on site to meet with Bubba
19:24 (11:24) Richard and Ken out to End-X to check on some ION pump controls 
19:28 (11:28) Joe is back from End-Y
19:43 (11:43) Dave & Patrick – adding FMCS temperature channels (WP 35631)
20:05 (12:05) Locked IMC at the request and approval of Kissel and Landry.
20:07 (12:07) Kyle and Gerardo back from End-X. He says Filiberto is still there, though.
20:28 (12:28) Tried relocking – Found initial alignment off
20:40 (12:40) Redo initial alignment
21:34 (13:34) FD on site
21:53 (13:53) Kyle & Gerardo – Going to X2-8
22:27 (14:27) John & Bubba – Going to Mid-X 
22:37 (14:37) Kyle & Gerardo – Back from X-Arm
22:50 (14:50) Start relocking
23:49 (15:49) Locked at NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
23:50 (15:50) In commissioning mode so Kissel can run measurements
00:07 (16:07) Turn over to Travis	



End of Shift Summary:

Title: 12/01/2015, Day Shift 16:00 – 00:00 (08:00 – 16:00) All times in UTC (PT)

Support: Kiwamu
 
Incoming Operator: Travis

Shift Detail Summary: 16:00 (08:00) Start Tuesday maintenance window.
After maintenance window tried to relock. Green alignment bad. Realigned green and tried relocking. Found BS alignment was off. Did full initial alignment and tried to relock. Had a problem with OMC not finding carrier. Kiwamu found lower limit of carrier detection was too tight. He changed it in Guardian from 10% to 25% (which matches the upper limit). Continued with relocking and reached NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE. IFO is in observing mode while Kissel runs measurements. 	   

John, Richard, Nutsinee

Today's plan was to go out to TCSX table, take out the old IR sensor, and replace it with the new one (+VP inspection). John wanted to make sure that the sensor actually does what it was designed to do before we unwrap the light pipe and put it in so we did some tests. The comparator box was thought to be calibrated to trip at ~45 degree C. However, I forgot to write down how I did it so the number was very shady... We waved a small soldering iron in front of it, starting at low temperature (~150 deg F). The box would trip when the soldering iron was waved at half a centimeter away from the sensor. Keep in mind that the sensor is mounted at ~2.5 inches away from the center of the viewport with a small angle (the sensor is looking straight down while the optical window is about 0.6 cm deep under the viewport cover. So, the sensor must be able to trip when seeing a heat source at 2.5" away with ~22 deg viewing angle. We did a quick test by waving the soldering iron in front of the sensor with several temperature settings at several distances (At this point the potentiometer was about a quarter turn away from the room temperature tripping point. It's a 10-turn pot!). 800 deg F setting tripped the box at ~3" away, 600 deg F and 500 deg F tripped the box when waved at ~2" away. But these temperatures are impractical settings. At 800 deg F, 3" away we were able to make the box trip when placed the soldering iron rounghly 1cm above the sensor's viewing axis. This gives as a viewing angle of ~8deg, about a factor of 3 less than what's required. We did the same test with the sensor that was mounted on the TCSY viewport. The results were similar (400F, 500F soldering iron didn't trip the sensor when places at the center of the viewport but tripped the sensor when moved to the edge of the viewport. 600F at the center of the viewport did trip the sensor.)

To confirm the temperature of the soldering iron we used to do this test, we used Richard's FLIR camera and a thermocouple. Turns out the actual temperature of a certain spot on the soldering iron we pointed the IR sensor to was lower than the display. The thermocouple measured 304 F when display reads 350F, 630 F when reads 700F, and 750F when reads 850F.

Conclusion: The sensor unit isn't doing what's it supposed to do and we should rethink about installing them without an improvement to the comparator box circuit. Note that we were only using half a turn out of 10 turns available on the pot to set up this test. There's no way to fine tune this thing to where we want it to trip!

J. Kissel, S. Karki, B. Weaver, R. McCarthy, G. Merano, M. Landry

After gathering the weekly charge measurements, I've compared H1 SUS ETMY ESD's relative Pitch/Yaw actuation strength change (as measued by the optical levers) against the Longitundinal Actuation Strength (as measured by PCAL / ESD calibration lines). As has been shown previously (see LHO aLOG 22903), the pitch/yaw strength's slope trends very nicely along with the longituinal stength change -- if you take a quick glance. Upon closer investigation, here are things that one begins to question:
(1) We still don't understand why the optical level actuation strength assessments are offset from the longitunidal strength assessment after the ESD bias sign flip. 
(2) One *could* argue that, although prior to the flip the eye-ball-average of oplev measurements trackes the longitudinal strength, after the flip there are periods where two quadrants (magenta, in pitch, which is LR, from Oct 25 to Nov 8; black, in yaw, which is UR, from ~Nov 11 to Dec 06) track the longitudinal strength. As such, one *could* argue that the longitudinal actuation strength trend is dominated by a single quadrant's charge, instead of the average. Maybe.
(3) If you squint, you *could* say that the longitudinal actuation strength increase rate is slowly tapering off, where as the optical lever strength increase *may* be remaining constant. One could probably also say that the rate of strength increase is different between oplevs and cal lines (oplev P/Y strength is increasing faster that cal line L strength).
All this being said, we are still unsure whether we want to flip the ETMY ESD bias sign again before the observation run is out. Landry suggests we either do it mid-December (say the week of Dec 14), or not at all. So we'll continue to track via optical lever, and compare against the longitudinal estimate from cal lines.

Results continue to look encouraging for ETMX -- ever since we've had great duty cycle, and turned off the ETMX ESD Bias when we're in low-noise and/or when the IFO is down, the charging rate has decreased. Even though the actuation strength of ETMX doesn't matter at the few % level like it does for ETMY (because ETMX is not used as the DARM actuator in nominal low-noise, so it doesn't affect the IFO calibration), it's still good to know that we can get an appreciable effect by simply reducing the bias voltage and/or turning it off for estended periods of time. This again argues for going the LLO route of decreasing the ETMY bias by a factor of 2, which we should certianly consider doing after O1.

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As usual, I've followed the instructions from the aWiki to take the measurements. I had much less trouble today than I had last week gathering data from NDS, which is encouraging. One thing I'd done differently was wait a litle longer before requesting the gathering and analysis (I waited until the *next* measurement had gone through -9.0 and -4.0 [V] bias voltage points and started the 0.0 [V] point, roughly 5 minutes after the measurement I wanted to analyze ended). As such, I was able to get 6 and 4 oplev data point to compose the average for ETMX and ETMY, respectively (as opposed to the 3 and 1 I got last week; see LHO aLOG 23717).

Once all data was analyzed, I created the usual optical-lever-only assessment using 
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/Common/Scripts/Long_Trend.m
and saved the data to here:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Results/CAL_PARAM/2015-12-01_H1SUSETMY_ChargeMeasResults.mat

However, I'd asked Sudarshan to gather the latest calibration line estimates of the ESD longitudinal actuation strength (aka kappa_TST), which he gathered from his matlab tool that gathers the output of the GDS function "Standard Line Monitor." (He's promised me an updated procedure and an aLOG so that anyone can do it). This is noteably *not* the output of the GDS pipeline, but the answers should be equivalent. His data lives here:
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Results/CAL_PARAM/2015-12-01_Sep-Oct-Nov_ALLKappas.mat

Finally, I've made the comparison between oplev and cal live strength estimates using
/ligo/svncommon/CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/CAL_PARAM/compare_chargevskappaTST_20151201.m

Calibration parameter updates that includes data until Nov 11.

Kappa_tst is slowly trending up after the bias sign flip on Oct 16  and rest of the paremeters show normal variations that we have seen in the past.

The first plot contains all the parameters that we calculate. 

The second plot highlights kappa_tst, kappa_C and cavity pole of which the kappa_tst and kappa_C will be applied to h(t).

This data is filtered for locked state using GDS state vector and thus contains some outliers at times when the IFO is locked but not in anlaysis ready state. In  future, we plan to use GDS state vector which will give us the flexibility to only use analysis ready data.