I have updated the GUARD_OVERVIEW screen to reflect the addition of the new node OK bits.  The change can be summarized with the new legend.  Note the third indicator on the right:

The last indicator will be green if the node is OK, or orange if it is not.  This change has been propogated throughout the GUARD_OVERVIEW screen:

Note that most all SUS and SEI nodes are OK, while we still need to set NOMINAL stages for the ALS and IAS ("initial alignment system") nodes.

The white panels are nodes that are currently being commissioned, and should be available imminently (the H1 "IMC" node will be renamed to "IFO_IMC" to match LLO).

Unlocked the WHAM5 HEPI and then ran Range of Motion measurement.  1mm for most DoFs, V1 0.9 & V4 0.8mm.  Elected to not run linearity test, looked good in April.  Attempted to run through commissioning scripts to close the position loops but there is a bad L4C and I'll need to replace that and rerun the transfer functions.

Meanwhile I updated the Cartesian position targets to the more recent stopped time, although these saw only small changes since I updated the targets in July.  And, I've driven the outputs (Cartesian basis in the Isolation filter section) to the target positions.  The rotational DoFs are all within a few 100nrads and the translationals are within a few umeters.  Feel free to tweek the OFFSETs on the Isolation filters if further tuning is needed.

model restarts logged for Tue 02/Sep/2014
2014_09_02 11:27 h1fw1

unexpected restart of h1fw1

K. Venkateswara, J. Kissel

I'm starting to look at how ground rotation affects the ISI stages and what improvements could be achieved with rotation sensor. I considered the data taken on Aug 21, 2014 night. I took three 10k second sets starting from GPS time: 1092707816. Initially I took the following channels:
H1_ISI-GND_STS_ETMX_X_DQ
H1_ISI-GND_BRS_ETMX_RY_OUT_DQ
H1_ISI-ETMX_ST1_BLND_X_T240_CUR_IN1_DQ

I then made ASD and coherence plots as shown in the attached file for each of the three sets. The seismometer velocity data has been multiplied with (2*pi*f)/g to convert to units of radian. Stage 1 had the "TBetter" isolation filters (see alog 11400). HPI was in the 'floating' state.

In the first data set, the ground rotation was quite small and BRS/GND_STS are very quiet in the 10-100 mHz range. Stage 1 however has very large motion in this range. There is no coherence between Stage 1 and BRS/GND_STS up to ~0.2 Hz, after which it shows strong coherence with the GND_STS.
In the second and the third data set, ground rotations were larger as seen in the BRS/GND_STS channels, but Stage 1 performance and the coherence looks identical to the first. It is clear that in this state, Stage 1 noise (in the 10-100 mHz band) is not due to ground rotation.

The final plot shows the coherence between Stage 1_T240_X and Stage1_T240_RY, HPI_IPS_X and HPI_IPS_RY showing very good coherence below 0.2 Hz.

After discussing further with Jeff, and reading P1200040-v40 (by F. Matichard et al, very useful document!), it seems that the above result is expected when the HEPI is in a floating/open loop state. Please look at pages 28-30 which states that HEPI tilt-horizontal coupling corner frequency is ~0.2 Hz when it is in an open loop state.

Here's my rough interpretation of what is happening: Stage 0 and subsequent stages can be thought of as a boat floating on pool of water (or hockey puck on an air-bearing table). If you stand inside the boat and move a table on the boat, the entire boat will move w.r.t. the walls of the pool, from momentum conservation. In addition there is known tilt-horizontal coupling below 0.2 Hz, so linear motion of the boat produces rotation below 0.2 Hz. As the TBetter isolation loop is trying to isolate down to 50 mHz (and amplifying motion in the 10-100 mHz band), the net result is large rotations of Stage 1, which have nothing to do with ground rotation. 

Where is this excess noise coming from? I'm not sure, but there are a number of candidates: it could be displacement sensor noise of Stage 0/1, actuator/force noise of HEPI, thermal gradients across HEPI springs and so on. Regardless of the noise source, I feel that HEPI floating (with fc~0.2 Hz for rotation) and TBetter filter (isolating to 50 mHz) is probably not the optimum configuration for good low-frequency isolation, given that we may now be measuring ground rotation precisely.

I'm very new to this so I hope others will correct me if I'm mistaken. It would be very useful to try out the HEPI closed-loop configuration and HEPI locked rigid states with BRS measuring ground rotation to understand this issue more clearly.

Jeff K. working on charging measurements at end Y
X arm opening temporarily
in vacuum SRM noise investigations
cable pulling for cameras and illuminators
3IFO assembly work
Jason to align PR3 optical lever, then work on HAM4
Jim W. working on ITMX SEI control loops
Fire department taking RAFAR temporarily out of service to allow cable pulling
Safety meeting at 3

PeterK, RickS

Yesterday (Tues) morning, we adjusted the alignment into the PMC to minimize the reflected light level with the cavity locked.
We adjusted the two steering mirrors immediately upstream of the PMC.  Neither was locked before, but we locked them this time when we finished.
Maybe this will help with the alignment drifts we have been experiencing.  Min. REFL DC level was 0.375 V locked, 2.3 V unlocked.

We then did a cursory alignment into the reference cavity and saw a significant improvement using the two mirrors downstream
of the PMC (again, neither of which was locked).  Trans. level 2.08 on MEDM screen.
We looked at the FSS OLTF and adjusted the gains to 15/30 dB Fast/Common.  Even with the common gain at the max level of 30 dB,
the UGF is only about 320 kHz.  Phase margin about 50 deg.

We installed the insulation end caps on the reference cavity.  This may provide some passive improvement in the temperature stability.

With JeffB (operator on shift) we adjusted the ISS reference level to 2.00 to account for the increased light level resulting from the PMC
input alignment and locked the ISS loop.  The diffracted light level was about 7.4 W and the loop appeared to be functioning properly.
This reference level will have to be adjusted to keep the diffracted light level in the 6-10 W range if the PMC alignment drifts (reflected
light level increases).  0.01 on the reference level is approximately 1% (maybe 1.3%) on the diffracted light level.

We need:
AA batteries for the computer keyboards and trackpads.
15 ft. SMA/SMA cable for the RFPD to TTFSS servo module cable so we can move the module to the floor (and get this heat source off
of the table).
10 ft. SMA/BNC cable for the ISS AOM to AOM driver cable so we can move the module to the floor and get this heat source off of the
table surface too.

Sheila, Kiwamu

• Locked SRY by misaligning PRM and ITMX.
• Used ASAIR_A_RF45_Q with the whitening gain of 18 dB and two whitening stages engaged.
• Copied LSC-PRCL filters to LSC-SRCL filters.
• Copied PRM and PR2 locking filters over to SRM and SR2 respectively.
• LSC_SRCL_GAIN = 300 to lock the carrier with a UGF of about 5 Hz.
• Put a notch in SRM because we tended to ring up a vertical mode of SRM at 27.46 Hz. This is partly why the UGF is so low.
• Still in the process of checking the cross-over and so on.

This morning I put in upgrades for both guardian core (r1076) and cdsutils (r322).  All guardian nodes have been restarted (except for ITMX SUS and SEI which are under test by Jim W.  Will restart as soon as he's done).

cdsutils r322 new improvements/features:

• add "gpstime" module for handling GPS times
• fixes/improvements to "audio" command (i.e. "rockifo")
• new "water" command for waterfall plotting
• new "step" command, and guardian-friendly Step class
• minor performance improvements to Ezca and LIGOFilter
• improve test suite
• improved documentation

guardian r1076 improvements/features (see also LLO aLOG 13930):

• support user-assigned state indices
• add node NOMINAL state, which represent the intended state during full operation
• add node OK status bit, which is True if the node is running, in it's NOMINAL state, not in error, etc.
• improved test suite
• improved documentation

Here's the updated guardian control screen that comes with this upgrade:

Note the new "NOMINAL" state field.  The NOMINAL state is NONE by default if not set in the code module (which is the case here for SUS_BS).  The orange background reflects the fact that the new OK bit is False, which in this case is because there is no NOMINAL state set.

Also note the number fields to the right of the state names, which show the numeric index for the current states.  Now that we manually set these numbers, they have a bit more meaning, which is why it's useful to display them.

We now need to go through all systems and add appropriate state indices and nominal state definitions.  This was done already at LLO, so I'll be adopting the same standards.

See https://alog.ligo-la.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=14409

J. Kissel

Picking up where Borja left off, I've measured the charge H1 SUS ETMY test mass / reaction mass system. Today's measurement is made in hopes of seeing if the ion pump is the smoking gun causing all the charging noise. Driving quadrant-by-quadrant, and using the optical lever's Pitch and Yaw signals as my response, with a 0.02 [Hz] binWidth, with 5 (instead of 3) ensuring I had a coherence of at least 0.75 (i.e. an relative amplitude uncertainty of less than sqrt((1 - 0.75)/2*5*0.75) = 18%), and taking 5 bias data points (instead of 4), I arrive at the following effective bias voltages:
      P [V]     Y [V]
UL   104       149
LL   129       72
UR   110       13.6
LR   104       117
For some reason Pitch had much better SNR for the same drive amplitude, but given that I accounted for the coherence, both pitch and yaw are to be believed. I'm not sure, however, why pitch shows such a uniform charging distribution, where yaw reports the charge is spread unevenly.

I'll gather more measurements and plot the results against Borja's previous measurements tomorrow. Since we expect this to evolve with time, there's not to much point in putting it up against the ion pump closed results just yet.

I've got some clean up functions and scripts to do, bear with me while I catch up to what Borja had assembled. I could have ask him for his analysis scripts, but it was easier just to write my own, given that the analysis is so simple. Still no automation of this measurement, and given the first-day-back barrage of Q&A, it took me ~4 hours to complete the measurement. I expect this will go faster once I gather my stride. As usual, it's a toss up between "let's just get the answer now" and "take the time to debug the automation." I elected for the former.

Lisa, Sheila

We went down to end X, turned on the laser, adjusted the fiber polarization, adjusted the laser temperature to find the beat note, tuned up the beat note alignment, and the PLL is now locked.  The QPD servos are also locked.

There is 6.5 mW on the PLL BBPD, the medm screen reports -5.6 dBm beat note strength, and the laser temperature is 28.96 C. 

There's a relatively large PIT motion visible in OMC_REFL and AS_AIR video.

If you look at OMC QPDs, it turns out to be a broad peak at around 0.7Hz, and is mostly coherent with SR3 oplev and nothing else.

I did an svn update on the main SUS guardian module, sus/common/guardian/SUS.py, now at r8553.  This pulled in recent changes from L1, including the addion of state indices and a NOMINAL state definition.  I commented out some new additional OPLEV logic that we're not ready for here yet.  All SUS nodes were RELOADED for these changes to take affect.

Here's the new guardian control screen for SUS_BS with the new changes in place:

Notice:

• non-negative state indices to the right of the state names, indicating they have been manually set
• NOMINAL state is set to the ALIGNED state (index 100)
• the node OK channel is now True, as indicated by the green background in the NOMINAL box. 

The updates also included the addition of some optical lever (oplev) damping loop triggering, that I have commented out for the time being, until we get the oplevs working here (and the logic better).

In the event of a power loss during a science run, the APC Smart-UPS (Model: 1500, Max Configurable Power: 980 Watts/1440 VA, Mfg. Part: SUA1500R2X122) will continue powering the Pre-Stabilized Laser (PSL) to prevent laser damage. The UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) draws for its transformer a large amount of current, so we measured the device's magnetic field at various distances to determine the 'minimum distance' --  how close the UPS can be to other equipment, especially the interferometer.

We defined the maximum allowable magnetic field at 60 Hz from any electronic device to be 0.4 nT, which is one tenth of the root mean square 60 Hz magnetic field during iLIGO science runs.

For magnetic field measurements, we used two 500 Watt lights (to simulate the PSL load), a Bartington magnetometer (mounted on a tripod), and the UPS (placed horizontally and face-up on a plastic bin).

During preliminary tests, we found that the system's on/plugged-in and off/plugged-in configurations produced similar magnetic field magnitudes. Therefore, the UPS must be placed at its minimum distance whenever the device is plugged-in (and either on or off).

Next, at 1m, we measured the magnetic field at three different angles relative to the physical center of the device. Of these measurements, The lowest value was 55% of the highest value. The magnetic field at 60 Hz was strongest when the magnetometer was aligned with the device's front (face with buttons) left edge, and the remaining measurements were taken at this angle. 

The final step in determining the minimum distance was measuring the attenuation of the device's magnetic field with distance. To minimize noise caused by surrounding electronic devices, I collected data in the VEA of End X instead of in the LVEA. I took data from 3 to 39 feet, with a constant interval of 3 feet. At each distance, I used Diagnostic Test Tools (DTT) to record the power spectra of the magnetic field when the UPS was unplugged and off and when the UPS was plugged-in and on. I took two data sets--both were numerically similar.

The data was slightly noisy, so I used Grace to perform a linear regression on, at 60 Hz, the natural log of the magnetic field  vs. the natural log of the distance. I found the fitted curve to be described by:
 
y=(170.579)x^-1.739

In conclusion, when y is 0.4nT (see above), x is about 33 ft -- the minimum distance.

The attached plot shows the UPS magnetic field attenuation.

Here is a link to the UPS at the LIGO Hanford Observatory: http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA1500R2X122

Christina Daniel, Robert Schofield

I did some math to figure out how much ITMX, ITMY and BS may have been moving (in a frequency band of 0.1-1 ish Hz) in their angles according to fluctuation of the DC light observed at the dark port when the Michelson was locked.

(Summary)

Wednesday night (August 27th)

• The dark port DC (ASAIR_B_LF) flucutated by 16% of the bright fringe when the Michelson was locked on a dark fringe.
• ITMX(Y) may have been moving by 11 urad or 22 urad in peak-to-peak.
• BS may have been moving by 5.7 urad or 11 urad in peak-to-peak.

Friday night (August 29th)

• The dark port DC (ASAIR_B_LF) flucutated by 1% of the bright fringe when the Michelson was locked on a dark fringe.
• ITMX(Y) may have been moving by 2.8 urad or 5.6 urad in peak-to-peak.
• BS may have been moving by 1.4 urad or 2.8 urad in peak-to-peak.

(Some math behind it)

Suppose the Michelson is locked on a dark fringe. If an ITM is misaligned by Ψ, this introduces a displacement and tilt in the reflected beam with respect to the one from the other ITM at the BS. The displacement is x = 2 L Ψ and the title is ϑ = 2 Ψ where L is the distance from the BS to the ITM. So we get a small amount of 01 or 10 mode at the dark port on top of the 00 modes. Since the effect on the resultant 00 mode in its power is proportial to 4th power of the displacement and tilt, we assume the 00 mode to vanish because of the locking loop. The only residual we obtain at the dark port is the 01 or 10 mode whose field can be written as

E₁₀ = 1/sqrt(2) ( x/w₀ + i * ϑ / ϑ₀),

where w₀ is the waist size and ϑ₀ is the divergence angle respectively. A factor of 1/sqrt(2) upfront comes from the BS reflection. If we plug the definition of x and ϑ into the equation, we get

E₁₀ = sqrt(2) ( L/w₀ + i / ϑ₀)  Ψ.

Squaring the above, one can get the dark port power as

P = 2 ( (L/w₀)²+ (1/ ϑ₀)²)  Ψ²

Note that P is already normalized by the input beam power or equivallently the bright fringe. The Rayleigh range of the beam around the BS is roughly 210 m (if my math is correct). This gives a waist size of 8.4 mm and divergence angle of 40 urad.  The ITM-BS distance L is about 5.34 m where I averaged out the Schnupp asymmetry. So the dark port power can be now explicitly written as

P = 1.24 x 10⁹  Ψ²

This is the equation I used for deriving the numbers listed at the very top.

For example, if one wants to explain a 16% DC light fluctuation observed at the dark port by an angle deviation in ITMX(Y), the misalignment should be Ψ = sqrt(0.16 / 1.24 x 10⁹ ) = 11.4 urad. In the case of the BS, the effect gets twice bigger due to the fact it affects both X and Y beams at the same time in a constructive manner.

Nic, Kiwamu

We locked the PRMI on the carrier light for the first time.

(Variable finesse technique turned out to be good to start)

Since I have been unsuccessful in locking the PRMI in the past two or three days, I wanted to try some other locking technique. We tried LLO's variable finesse technique (see LLO alog 11340) which seemed more reliable than randomly adjusting the gains and triggers. It turned out that it almost repeatably locks the initial low finesse PRMI. Very nice. We then fiddled with the MICH gain which needed some gain correction as we got rid of the offset in the MICH locking point.

POPAIR_B_LF fluctuated a lot presumably due to some misalignment in some optics. POPAIR_B_LF was about 20000 counts in average and ASAIR_B_LF stayed approximately 3000 counts in average. After 15 minutes or so, we lost the lock for some reason, we did not have a close look.

The attached is a video of ASAIR when the PRMI was in lock.