TITLE: Sep 26 OWL Shift 07:00-15:00UTC (00:00-08:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC

STATE Of H1: Observing

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Patrick

QUICK SUMMARY:. IFO Locked at 68Mpc/22.9W. No injections are running. All lights are off in LVEA, MID, END and PSL. Wind is <10mph. Microseism seems to be riding steady at ~.1um/s for the last few hours following an earthquake. EQ seismic took a little hop from ~ .2 um/s to .1um/s due to a small earthquake in the Portugal area. It appears that at 07:09UTC there was some raised level of noise activity in DARM from 25Hz and below. This only lasted about 1 minute.

TITLE: 09/25 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing, ~67 MPc
SHIFT SUMMARY: Recovered from two lock losses. The cause of the first is unclear. The second was likely from a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Chile. After recovering from the earthquake I put it into commissioning mode to allow Chris to do hardware injections while LLO was down. He is done and we are back to observing.
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ed

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.

John V. has also provided 10 waveforms that I used for testing. The waveform single-column ASCII files that contain the h(t) time series can be found in the hardware injection SVN here: https://daqsvn.ligo-la.caltech.edu/svn/injection/hwinj/Details/Inspiral/${IFO}/posterior*.out

And the corresponding XML parameter files can be found here: https://daqsvn.ligo-la.caltech.edu/svn/injection/hwinj/Details/Inspiral/posterior*.xml

I will post time series plots of the waveforms as a comment later.

06:20 UTC Chris is done with hardware injections, back to observing mode

I'm done with the hardware injection tests. More details in upcoming aLog entry.

04:20 UTC Taking out of observing to allow Chris to test hardware injections

L1 is down at the moment. I am beginning some single-IFO hardware injection tests at H1 now.

03:28 UTC locked on DRMI briefly, loss lock, tripped BS ISI stage 2 GS13
04:09 UTC Back to low noise
04:16 UTC Back to observing mode

03:15 UTC lockloss, 6.2 Mag Earthquake, 30km SW of Ovalle, Chile, 02:51:18 UTC

23:48 UTC tour in control room
23:58 UTC video3 frozen, rebooted
00:26 UTC last of tour left control room
01:10 UTC problems with operator0 workstation, rebooted twice
02:06 - 02:11 UTC stepped out of control room

Still in observing mode at ~ 70 MPc.

A tour group was on site this afternoon.  Arrival time at LSB = ~3:00 PM.  Departure time = ~5:15 PM.  Group size = ~26 adults.  Vehicles at the LSB = ~12 passenger cars.  The group walked to the overpass near 4:15 PM and visited the control room near 4:45 PM.

23:23 UTC Back to observing. Only intervention required was moving the BS in pitch at LOCK_DRMI_1F. Cheryl states that it is acceptable that the 'Continuous Wave Inj Signal' on the Ops Overview is red and stating 'No Injection'.

TITLE: 09/25 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Lock loss 10 minutes prior to start of shift.
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Cheryl
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. Seismic in 0.03 - 0.1 Hz band is between 10^-2 and 10^-1 um/s at end X and end Y. It is around 10^-2 um/s at the corner station. Seismic in 0.1 - 0.3 Hz band is around 10^-1 um/s. Wind speeds are ranging up to 20mph.

SUMMARY:

IFO relocked and was in Observe most of the shift.

4 large ETMY glitches in the second half of the lock.

IFO lost lock about 10 minutes before the end of the shift.

Currently relocked and on it's way to Low Noise.

TIMELINE:

18:42:56UTC - IFO to Observe

20:28:09UTC - ETMY saturation

20:31:19UTC - airplane heard in CR

20:36:45UTC - airplane heard in CR again

22:00:00UTC - or about that... Gerardo drives to Mid-Y

22:15UTC - Gerardo left Mid-Y

22:20UTC - Gerardo arrived Corner Station

22:50UTC - lock loss

I made 4 plots, and on the control side, it's subtle but looks to me like OM1 M1 DAMP Y deviated first at lock loss, and on the optics side, all of Y arm optics were already oscillating and then lock loss.

Plot 1: last 33 seconds of the lock - control signals

Plot 2: last 33 seconds of the lock - optics

Plot 3: last 3 seconds of the lock - control signals

Plot 4: last 10 seconds of the lock - optics

Plot 5: fist big glitch at 13:45:47

During the large earthquake last Friday, Jeff K took the opportunity to run a set of charge measurements on the ETMs.  While the ETMy data did not yield successful plots (am looking into matlab), the ETMx results are posted below in trends from July to now.  Note, we last changed the bias signs (on both ETMX and ETMY) on July 22nd - alog 19848.

JeffreyK, SudarshanK, DarkhanT,

Overview

We made comparison plots of a DARM OLG TF and PCAL to DARM TF measurements taken at LHO with H1DARMmodel_ER8 and H1DARMmodel_O1 (uncorrected and corrected with kappa factors).

One of the main changes in the DARM model update for O1 compared to ER8 was that in the actuation function for ER8 model we did not account for an analog anti-imaging filter. We included that filter into the O1 model. Adding previously missing analog AI filter into the actuation function model increased the (measurement / model) residual to about 1% in magnitude and to ~6 deg around 500 Hz (~10 deg around 900 Hz). Initally some of the ER8 model parameter estimations (ESD/CD gains) were done to best fit the measurments for actuation function that does not include an analog AI.

We also took kappas calculated from calibration lines within about 20 minutes from DARM OLG TF measurement and plotted DARM model for O1 corrected with kappas in two different ways against the measurement to see how kappa corrections will take care of systematics in the model. At this point we don't have comparison results of the DARM OLG TF and PCAL2DARM TF measurements and kappa estimations to make a distinct statement. For this particular measurement from Sep 10, the DARM model that was corrected with κ_tst and κ_C produced smaller DARM OLG TF residual and actuation function residual compared to uncorrected model, but the sensing function residual was did not improve by the correction (see attached pdf's for actuation and sensing residuals).

Details

Some of the known issues / systematics in our DARM OLG TF model include:

• Not all of the sign flips in ESD (due-to linearization, direction of the applied force) and PUM were explicitly specified in the model parameters (for ESD sign flips see LHO alog 21739), also the location of a sign flip in the loop that is not part of A, C and D was not identified correctly in the beginning of ER8 (for correct location of this "-1" see LHO alog 21601). These issues were fixed in Matlab parameter file and DARM model for O1. Following aspects are affected by these issues:

- inverse actuation filters need to accout for an extra -1 sign (was fixed, see LHO alog 21703);

- CAL-CS reproduction should have a sign that's opposite from DARM output matrix (at LHO we had this correct, but it needed to be fixed at LLO).

• Shivaraj found that DAQ downsampling from 16 kHz to 512 Hz has frequency dependent phase roll-off that accounted for earlier unexplained ~44 degrees of phase discrepancy between the x_tst excitation and DARM_ERR readout measurement vs. model.

This issue affects EP1 value that's written into Epics record and used for estimation of DARM time-dependent parameters (T1500377). At LHO in the DARM model for ER8 we manually rotated phase of EP1 to +44.4 degrees to account for this discrepancy; we modified both the paramter file and the DARM model script to account for the DAQ downsampling filter TF calculated at the x_tst line frequency.

• JoeB found that an analog anti-imaging filter was not included into the DARM model for ER8 at both LHO and LLO, both sites started with H1DARMmodel_ER8.m script in which we missed to add this filter. On Monday, Sep 21, this issue was fixed in both LLO and LHO DARM models. The issue affects following aspects:

- residuals of actuation function and total DARM OLG TF (systemaic error);

- EP1-9 that are used for estimation of DARM temporal variations.

• We had an extra IOP cycle delay added into "par.t.actuation", which was not present in the parameter file and was not used to generate DARM model.

This variable might have been used in GDS calibration, we need to verify with MaddieW to make sure that this extra time delay is not included into GDS code.

• Both sensing and actuation residuals in the DARM model for O1 model extra delay (time-advance). This might be caused by overcounting time-delays or incorrect estimation of some other parameters.

One of the possible sources of systematic error in the sensing function model is using a single-pole TF to approximate IFO response.

Some of the parameters of the actuation functions were estimated without taking into account an analog AI filter (one of the issues listed above). We need to revisit ER8/O1 actuation function analysis results.

A comparison script, an updated DARM model script and DARM paramter files were committed calibration SVN:

CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Scripts/DARMOLGTFs/

Plots were committed to:

CalSVN/aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/O1/H1/Results/DARMOLGTFs/

P.S. I'll add references later.