If you look at the Online EarthQuake Arrival Predictor, it shows the 5.7 mag EQ in Japan, along with many others.  This is just the largest in the last day or so.  I've overlayed the predicted arrival time of the Rayleigh waves on the STS2 ground seismometers and the BS stage2 inertial sensors--see attached.  Unfortunately the IFO was not in lock at the time.

Anyway, need a bigger EQ still to assess the prediction as the Ground sensors.  Just to be more thorough, I shifted and extended the plot a little and now include the predicted arrival times of the P & S waves, second attachment.  I got rid of the Z ground seismometer and added the transmitted arm power for a IFO indicator.  Did the arrival of the p wave ring up the BS ISI?  Ehh I don't think so given the ground seismo unless the prediction is off by ~90 seconds.  But I think the prediction could be off by that much given the complexity of travel paths and assumptions of the velocitys.  With this data set I'd say the ISI is being beat around by the locking attempts, not by this red earthquake.

Adjust the ISS diffracted power from 11.1% -2.06v to 8.3% -2.09v 

Cleared the HEPI L4C watchdog counter for ITMY. All others were green and clear.

Scott L. Ed P.
6/8/15
The following are some of the dirtiest area we have seen on the X-arm.
Cleaned 58 meters ending 8.4 meters north of HNW-4-068.

6/9/15
 Maintenance day which means we can use the Hilti HEPA vacuum, the most effective vacuum for cleaning out the support tubes. We have been holding off on using this vacuum during ER7 because of the loud thump emitted from the internal cleaning system of the hepa filter.
We will go back and clean 2 sets of support tubes and cap them, as well as move forward to clean as many supports as reasonable before the end of maintenance day at noon.
Cleaned 30 meters of tube ending at HNW-4-070. Test results posted on this A-log.
 
Robert Schofield came out to the area where we are cleaning to look at our procedure and methods of actual cleaning of the tube to investigate possible glitches seen by the control room operators during lock.

6/10/15
Remove lights, cords, vacuum machines, and all related equipment from enclosure and thoroughly clean all equipment, then relocate to next section north.
Started cleaning at HNW-4-070, cleaned 15 meters of tube.

To date we have cleaned a total of 3418 meters of tube. 

Since we got a few coincident burst hardware injections this morning, and the rest of ER7 (now through Sunday 8:00 PDT) will be split between local measurements/commissioning and running, I have disabled the scheduled burst hardware injections for the rest of ER7.  To be precise, I left the next few dozen in the schedule but I set their amplitudes to zero, in order to test the long-term behavior and stability of tinj; tinj will call awgstream to inject them, but because awgstream will just add zero strain to the instrument, these should have no effect and will not appear in ODC bits or database segments.

There is still a plan to add a stochastic injection sometime before ER7 ends, if time permits.

00:00 The ifo locked right before I came in. Wind speed is <20 mph. 90 mHz blend filter is used for BSC2.

           I noticed the BS oplev sum is saturated (> 80000 counts). Is this alright? It's been around this value for 10+ days.

01:55 There's a big bump at ~30 Hz that caused a big dip in the BNS range. SUS Oplev plots didn't show anything suspicious. The bump at this frequency happened through out the night, just not as big.

02:00 A 4.7 MAG earthquake in Ecuador shook PR3 a little and BNS range dropped slightly (from 61 Mpc to 60 Mpc), but that's all it did. No WD tripped. 

08:00 We've been locked for 8+ hours and still going strong at 61 Mpc! We had 5+ hours of coincidence with Livingston tonight. Handling the ifo to Jeff B.

Jim must have switched these.  The 90mHz blends are on for X & Y rather than the 45s.  The SDF is red for this reason.

model restarts logged for Wed 10/Jun/2015

no restarts reported

Dave Barker created a shared 'hinj' account for running hardware injections (alog 19057), and we restarted tinj (the transient injection process) under that account yesterday.  Unfortunately, the injections failed overnight due to awgstream errors.  That was puzzling because executing awgstream on the command line (with zero amplitude or extremely small amplitude) worked fine.  It turns out that different versions of the gds, awgstream and root packages are installed on the LHO injection machine compared to the LLO injection machine, so the environment setup that was copied over from LLO caused awgstream to fail when executed by tinj.  I made a separate environment setup script for LHO and restarted tinj under that, and now it seems to be working fine.

After doing a zero-amplitude test injection at 1118063333 (which should have had no effect on anything), I modified the schedule to more promptly do som burst injections (coincident at both sites), at GPS times 1118063933, 1118067123, and 1118067543.  (The actual signal comes a second or two later than those waveform file start times.  As of this writing, the first of those was picked up by the burst pipelines: see https://gracedb.ligo.org/events/view/G159516 .  We'll see about the others.

Related:

Den's alog 16624

Den's alog 16727

Summary:

Many things are dubious.

1. EX LL ESD is broken as the ESD to length response is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the others. Probably shoddy connection somewhere between the driver and the ESD electrode, as the voltage readback looks normal.
2. It looks as if either the sign of EX ESD output is flipped (positive digital out induces negative voltage) or the sign of EY ESD output is flipped but not both.
3. I'm just assuming that the sign convention for CAL-CS_DARM_EXTERNAL_DQ is length(X)-length(Y), and that it's correct, without any confirmation.

Despite these things, it seems as if the charges on the back are on the same order as reported in Den's alog 16624.

If we assume that the sign of EY ESD is wrong and we still take 1. into account, the charges are calculated as:

This looks semi-reasonable.

If we assume that the sign of EX ESD is wrong and we still take 1. into account, the charges are:

I don't like that the signs are all over the place.

If we assume that everything is correct except that the EX LL is broken (i.e. we ignore the 2. above but take 1. into account), the charges based on are:

Again the signs are all over the place.

These are based on the same calculation as Den's alog 16624.

I'm assuming that the sign convention of CAL-CS_DARM_EXTERNAL_DQ is length(X)-length(Y) (i.e. positive when X stretches and Y shrinks).

Anyway, no matter how you look at the data, the back surface charges are quite similar to what was reported in Den's alog (except for the signs that don't make much sense for the latter two tables).

We tried similar measurements as described in Den's alog 16727 but the angle data for X was unusable (no coherence at all). If you're interested in Y data, all measurements were saved in Betsy's template directory.

The gist of the measurements:

• Lock the IFO in DC using EX ESD for EY injections (or using EY ESD for EX injections). Use a correct-ish CAL-CS configuration.
• Ring heater upper and lower sections were bundled together and connected to one of GDS DACs via SR560 while the drive ground was connected to the ESD ground.
• Set the EY ESD bias to zero for EY injections (or EX bias for EX injections).
• Inject 5 lines (each one corresponding to LL, LR, UL, UR and ring heater), all at around 80Hz, and measure the transfer coefficients from injections to CAL-CS_DARM_EXTERNAL_DQ and IR QPDs on the TMS. CAL_CS thing was dewhitened using the calibration in the dtt template used for the control room FOM.

Differences between EX and EY measurements:

• Low noise driver, no low pass for EY. This gives a DC gain of 2, and a pole at 152Hz from PI summing node. For EX, high voltage driver with DC gain of 40 and a pole at 2kHz.
• High power for EY injections. Low power (3W) for EX injections because we needed to disable EX ring heater and I was worried if the PI becomes the problem if the measurement takes too long.
• In EY a large DC analog offset was observed in all GDS testpoints. To block this, SR560 was set to AC coupling which should have zero effect at 80Hz. (Later it turned out that the offset was already in the digital, so probably it's a digital offset problem but that doesn't change the conclusion either.)
• No meaningful coherence for the QPDs in EX. Don't know why, maybe we really need high power.

Fishy sign of ESDs (Go to the floor and figure out):

EY ESD length drivealign matrix has a negative DC gain while the corresponding matrix for EX is positive even though the LSC DARM output matrix already takes care of the sign difference necessary for DARM control for EX and EY.

It looks as if either the bias line has a wrong sign for one ETM but not the other, or LL/LR/UL/UR lines have a wrong sign for one ETM but not the other.

Raw-ish data and calculations:

Measured the zero-bias transfer coefficients from ESD segments and the ring heater (top and bottom combined) to the calibrated DARM channel in meters/volts at around 80Hz. After taking the TF of the drivers and the DAC V/cts into account, they are:

Positive data is actually about 24 deg (Y arm) or 30 deg (X arm) delayed, while negative data is about 210 deg (X arm) delayed.

EX LL is not working. Coherence is very large, the voltage readback looks OK, but it has 3 orders of magnitude smaller response than the others. EX LL did not change much when the nominal EX ESD bias was put back on.

I multiplied the ESD combined data by 4/3 only for EX to take into account that the EX LL driver is not working.

Force to length transfer function at 80Hz is -1/M/(2*pi*80Hz)^2 = -1E-7[m/N] (negative as the phase is 180 degrees relative to DC).

Also, the above is the TF to DARM, which is supposed to be X length - Y length. In order to move to a sign convention where positive means that the ETM moves closer to ITM, the sign of the X data should be flipped.

Combining these, the above raw-ish data is converted to N/V as:

The signs of this table don't really make sense (positive ESD electrode potential should move ETMX and ETMY in the same direction if the charge has the same sign).

Anyway, from here, you solve Den's rough formula:

F_RH / V_RH = A_front Q_front + A_back Q_back

F_ESD / V_ESD = B_front Q_front + B_back Q_back

A_front = 1 / 0.20 [1/m] ; A_back = -1 / 0.04 [1/m] 

B_front = 1 / 0.20 [1/m] ; B_back = 1 / 0.04 [1/m]

~16:00 Locked IFO

~16:45 Winds pick up, lock loss

Many frustrating hours of lock losses at REFL_TRANS or there abouts

23:15 Lock IFO again.

When I took over from Jeff this afternoon, he had successfully damped down bounce and roll modes on various optics, so I was able to proceed with locking the IFO at 17:15. About 45 minutes after that, the DARM got glitchy and we noticed that the wind traces on the wall were all trending up. After 45 minutes we lost lock and I haven't been able to relock since. Winds seem to be slowly winding down, but it's not totally calm yet. Pretty consistenly the IFO will get o CARM reduction, then lose lock on REFL_TRANS. Attached plots show trends for the last 6 hours at EX and EY. We lost lock pretty much right as winds topped out at EY.

I've created 1 hour injection files intended for simultaneous injection at LHO/LLO. There is a single 3600 second text file on h1hwinj1 at this location:
h1hwinj1:/ligo/home/edward.daw/research/hardware_injections/dependencies/sources/virgo/NAPNEW/SCRIPTS/IsotropicSbGenerator/first_injframes/SB_H1_ER7_1hr.txt
This contains a single set of channel data for injection at the Hanford site. There is a corresponding one hour ascii text file at Livingston at this location:
l1hwinj1:/home/edward.daw/injections/SB_L1_ER7_1hr.txt
Both files were created using a single call to IsotropicSbGenerator.py on the l1hwinj machine as follows:
cd /ligo/home/edward.daw/research/hardware_injections/dependencies/sources/virgo/NAPNEW/SWIG/
./IsotropicSbGenerator.py -i IsotropicSbGenerator3.ini
The results were 2 frames, one containing the Hanford data, the other containing the Livingston data. The LLO file was copied by ftp
to l1hwinj1.ligo-la.caltech.edu. At each site, libframe and frgetvect were used to convert the frame data to ascii text.

The amplitudes of these injections are omega_GW=0.001 at 100Hz in each detector. This should be far more subtle than the previous injection, so no need (hopefully) for Jeff/Adam to rescale the amplitude this time.

Hope there is some simultaneous up time at the two sites to try this test; I will be delighted if this is possible, but understand of course if there isn't an opportunity.

Thanks for any help. I've left a copy of this entry on the LLO aLOG.

Following what was done recently at LLO, I have created a common hinj account on the LHO hardware injection machine h1hwinj1. To conform to security requirements, users cannot ssh into this machine using the common account, they must still use their own LIGO.ORG account. Once on the machine, they can set-user to access the hinj account. The plan is to run all injections (contuous and transient) using the hinj account.

Dave Barker. WP5269

I have put together a quick EPICS alarm handler for Gamma Ray Bursts and Supernovae (GRB/SN) which runs on the operator alarm machine. It is called grbsn.alhConfig (in svn under cds/h1/alarmfiles).

The GRB alert system (which runs on h1fescript0) polls the GraceDB database every 10 seconds looking for External events (Gamma Ray Bursts and Supernovae). If an event is detected, its information is written to EPICS records which are hosted on the FE model h1calcs.

To put together a quick alarm system for ER7, I am using the alarm fields of the H1:CAL-INJ_EXTTRIG_ALERT_TIME record which records the GPS time of the trigger. By setting the HIGH alarm field to the current GPS time plus one second, when the next event is recorded this PV goes into the MAJOR alarm state.

The grbsn.alhConfig file provides the operator with two buttons:

[G] button opens the guidance text. It refers to the alog entry  https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=19037

[P] button runs a script which resets the alarm level to the current event, turning off the current alarm

When a GRB/SN alarm is raised the operator should:

1. acknowledge the alarm to stop it beeping/flashing

2. press the [P] button to turn off the current alarm and prime the system for the next event

3. read the guidance to see if any further action is needed

Information on the current event can be obtained by running the script grb_latest_event_info.py. This gives you the event time as local time, so you can easily determine when the one hour stand-down time will expire.

(baffled control room crew)

After the most recent lock loss the IMC wasn't relocking and looked completely misaligned. The screenshot shows about 20 minutes of the previous lock, 30 minutes of confusion and 10 minutes on a new lock. The only dof which shows a signifcant change is the input pointing. Strange.

Posted are data for the two long term storage dry boxes (DB1 & DB4) in use in the VPW. Measurement data looks good, with no issues or problems being noted. I will collect the data from the desiccant cabinet in the LVEA during the next maintenance window.   

After a measurement of charge on each ETM yesterday, I took a few more on each today.  Attached show the results trended with the measurements taken in April and Jan of this year.  There appears to be more charge on the ETMs than in previous measurements, although there is quite a spread in the measurements.  The ion pumps at the end stations are valved in.