TITLE: "10/29 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Observing at ~ 80Mpc

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ed

QUICK SUMMARY: Back to Observing at 16:12:48 UTC.

Had a bit of a trouble with PRMI. I trended some of the optics witness and oplev channels and BS remained relatively unchanged after the lockloss but PRM was kicked. So I touched only PRM pitch and yaw to get PRMI to lock while watching POP90 and POP18. I accepted SDF changes for the second harmonics ETMY violin mode damping gain and the new ASC DHARD gains that were introduced to fix the loop instability. I was out of Observing shortly to fix the mistake I made with the SDF (confusion between revert and accept).

This trip appears to have occured twice with the lock dropping on the first one.  The second was about 20 minutes later.  The watchdog registers tconvert 1130165885 Oct 29 2015 14:57:48 UTC.  The guardian first detected a problem at:

2015-10-29T14:38:52.53819 ISI_ITMY_ST2 [HIGH_ISOLATED.enter]
2015-10-29T14:57:49.03752 ISI_ITMY_ST2 [HIGH_ISOLATED.run] USERMSG: SETPOINT CHANGES. see SPM DIFFS for differences
 

After the WD detected a problem so it doesn't look like the guardian should be suspected.

Looking through the Coil Driver BIO channels, the Stage2 V3 CD status is the only element that registers a change.   The first attached 1 hour plot shows the BIO signals, the lock loss, and the stage3 coil driver outputs.  I don't see the V3 response any different than the V1 or V2 so nothing clear there.  The shift to zero is expected as the DC position is reset to zero offset at each Isolation.  The second 10 day plot shows this drive reset to zero each time and then slowly drift away from zero during the Isolated period.

Next I'll look through the model for meaning and why.

TITLE:  Oct 29 OWL Shift 7:00-15:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

SUPPORT: N/A

LOCK DURATION: Entire shift

INCOMING OPERATOR: Nutsinee

END-OF-SHIFT SUMMARY:  

IFO still locked at 78Mpc. There was a slight downtrend in range to ~65Mpc. Wind Calm. Sei and µSei remain the same. GraceDB External Notification script failing/recovering with frequent regularity. Lockloss at 14:34. ITMY Stage2 Coil Driver BIO.

SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 10:47:01 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 10:47:04 UTC)

SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 12:00:10 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 12:01:37 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 12:01:40 UTC)

ACTIVITY LOG:

ISI ITMY stage 2 watch dog tripped (Oct 29 14:34:47 UTC)
DRMI Unlocked (Oct 29 14:34:47 UTC)
Intention Bit: Commissioning (Oct 29 14:34:47 UTC)

ISI ITMY stage 2 watch dog tripped (Oct 29 14:57:49 UTC)

MID-SHIFT SUMMARY:  

All is quiet. Environmental hasn’t changed. One glitch in ETMY. Slight downtrend in range. Now observing serving at 75Mpc.

MID-SHIFT SUMMARY:  

All is quiet. Environmental hasn’t changed. One glitch in ETMY. Slight downtrend in range. Now observing serving at 75Mpc.

TITLE: Oct 29 OWL Shift 7:00-15:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick

QUICK SUMMARY: IFO is in Observing @ ~80.9Mpc. Eq sei bands are all in the .22micron range. µSei is around .3µ. Wind is <10mph. All light appear to be off in E, M, CS & PSL. CW injections are running. Cal lines are running. Livingston is up and running. MICH Live is still “breathing” and GraceDB External Alert Notifications continue to periodically blink in and out of error

TITLE: 10/28 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing @ ~79 MPc.
SHIFT SUMMARY: Remained in observing remainder of shift. Seismic is mostly unchanged. Terramon reported red for an earthquake in Alaska, but it was barely visible in the seismic trace. Winds have come down below 10 mph.
SUPPORT: Cheryl, Jenne, Evan (help with diagnosing MC2 position change)
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ed

ACTIVITY LOG:

23:33 UTC Bubba back from looking at PSL AC units (outside building)
00:37 UTC Dave and Jim B. turning off wireless in CER
00:42 UTC Dave and Jim B. back
00:51 UTC Evan and I into LVEA to look for the light Kyle reported
01:14 UTC Evan and I back
01:41 UTC Restarted GraceDB query script
02:02 UTC Observing

3 SUS ETMY saturations after going to observing

Intention Bit: Undisturbed (Oct 29 02:01:53 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 02:33:41 UTC)
Current time: Oct 29 03:00:00 UTC
Current time: Oct 29 04:00:00 UTC
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 04:37:30 UTC)
Current time: Oct 29 05:00:00 UTC
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 29 05:19:08 UTC)
Current time: Oct 29 06:00:00 UTC
Current time: Oct 29 07:00:00 UTC

TITLE:  "10/28 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC" 

STATE Of H1:  Lock Acquisition

SUPPORT: Jeff K., Kiwamu, Jeff B. 

SHIFT SUMMARY: Not much happened during the day. The ifo stayed locked until toward the very end of the shift. Difficulty recovering from the lockloss due to many optics became misaligned. I restarted GraceDB script once today.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick

ACTIVITY LOG:

15:25 Fil to Mid Y pick up EOM stuff

15:57 Fil back

19:04 Out of Observation to run DARM and Pcal open loop gain transfer function

20:13 Kyle to HAM3 after TF done. Cheryl to HAM12 area.

----------------Jeff Bartlett covering for me from 21:00-22:00----------------

21:33 Lockloss. 

There're few other things I couldn't make sense off his notes. Will post more later when I do!

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22:00 I came back to find the ifo have lost lock. Jeff reported ifo was locking in green but couldn't move on because the power wasn't high enough. The ALSX beam spot have moved significantly. Almost every optics I looked at moved by significant amount (including ITMs and ETMs but not TMS) and I wasn't sure where I should start touching. Everyone was out for the 3 O'clock meeting. I didn't notice that IMC was locking at the wrong mode.

23:00 Patrick took over.

Ps. I might have missed a couple of activities (outside the LVEA, low impact) during the chaos. Sorry about that.

I stopped in DC readout and Evan and I went into the LVEA to look for the flashing light that Kyle reported (alog 22931). We think we may have located it somewhere under HAM4 but could not determine the source without crawling under the output beam tube. So we left it for later investigation. I also found a phone near the PSL enclosure with the line still connected. The power was unplugged but I unplugged the line from the wall as well. I also unplugged the extension cord from the wall that the phone had been unplugged from. We also heard what sounded like a drop of water falling in a cave. The light was on in the CER and we turned it off on the way out. We noted that some of the light from the CER leaks into the LVEA through an opening in the wall for a cable tray. We were in there from around 00:51 UTC to 01:14 UTC.

Jim and Dave turned off the wireless access point that was turned on for Kyle. (alog 22931)

I had to engage the ISS second loop by hand.

I had to restart the GraceDB query script.

Jenne ran the a2l script.

I accepted in SDF the alignment offsets that Cheryl made to MC2. (alog 22933) (see first attached)

I reverted the SDF differences for the H1:SUS-ITMY_L2_DAMP_MODE8 and H1:SUS-ITMX_L2_DAMP_MODE5 filter modules (see attached). Jenne and I claim this is alright because the gain on these is 0. Could someone tell us if they changed these and why?

Unfortunately LLO went down from a power glitch just as we came back. We went into observing at 02:01 UTC. The range is around ~ 79 MPc.

TITLE: 10/28 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Unlocked
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
QUICK SUMMARY:
Lights appear off in the LVEA, PSL enclosure, end X, end Y and mid X. I can not tell from the camera if they are off at mid Y.
Winds are less than 20 mph.
ISI blends are at 45 mHz.
Earthquake seismic band is between 0.01 and 0.1 um/s. Microseism is between 0.1 and 0.7 um/s.

Nutsinee was struggling with locking ALS when I came in. Kyle had been working on HAM3 and the mode cleaner was locked on an odd mode. Cheryl moved MC2 and I did an initial alignment. Now attempting to get to NLN.

Plot 1: HAM3 rotation in Z, MC2 ptich and yaw, PR2 pitch and yaw, OMC DC shoing lock loss.

HAM3 rotation in Z is the biggest rotation signal.

MC2 shifts -13urad in pitch, and -28urad in yaw

PR2shakes but comes back to within 1urad of where it started.

Plot 2: All IMC optics and Recovery

MC1 and MC3 see a change at lock loss, and then some motion at relocking the IMC, but are unchnged, which we knew since they're in HAM2.

MC2 needed to move +50urad in pitch and an additional -12urad in yaw to recover the IMC with good power at MC2 TRANS.

Overall MC2 was moved +37urad in pitch and -40urad in yaw.

The fact that MC1 and MC3 positions are unchanged after recovering the IMC shows that the change of MC2 alignment, while big, did moved MC2 to match the previous MC1 and MC3 alignments.

Plol 3: HAM3 HEPI and ISI signals that I believe show that their alignment didn't change, though I'm not completely confident that I got the right channels to show this.

Pump cart running near East Door of HAM3 overnight -> Will shut down and disconnect tomorrow (assuming no leaks) 

Also, I had Richard energize the wireless for the LVEA for my work and I assume that it is still on? - Don't know how to turn it off.  


I noticed an intense flashing light located somewhere beneath BSC1 or BSC2 when I was connecting my instrument air line below the OMC.  I have never noticed this in the past.

The comparison yesterday had very different ground motions so it bears repeating with similar GM time.

Attached is comparison from 4am Tuesday (reference traces) and 2am this morning.  Below 10hz on X Y & Z there is nothing to mention.  Between 10 & 100hz or something on X & Y, there are both more and less noisy bands not obviously due to the GM.  The Z dof looks very comparable.  On the rotational DOFs, there are a few areas of interest: RX 0.5hz; RY 0.1--0.5hz & 20hz; RZ 20--80hz.  I'll repeat this tomorrow to see if these notables are repeatable.