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H1 SUS (SUS)
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:44, Monday 14 April 2025 - last comment - 15:57, Monday 14 April 2025(83900)
SR3 and PR3 pointing double check

I double checked the positions of PR3 and SR3 before the DAQ restart that's planned for today, SR3 seems to have done a bit of drifting from the LVEA zone4 temperature increasing by ~ 2 degrees. The T cursers denote the power outage. PR3s YAW oplev looks a little different post power outage but its' top mass osems don't really seem to have moved.

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ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - 15:57, Monday 14 April 2025 (83914)

PR3 and SR3s pointing after the DAQ restart, the yaw is different.

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LHO VE
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:14, Monday 14 April 2025 (83896)
Mon CP1 Fill

Mon Apr 14 10:08:47 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 44secs

 

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H1 PSL
ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:59, Monday 14 April 2025 (83894)
PSL 10-Day Trends

FAMIS 31081 (this also serves as a checkup on the PSL following the large power outage early last week)

Generally things are behaving as expected with just a few exceptions. Most notably, both amplifier output powers are ~1W lower than before the outage, likely due to the current being lower on the pump diodes in AMP1 by ~0.1A each. We had set the currents for AMP1 (power supplies 1 and 2) back to pre-outage levels of 8.7A, but perhaps due to rounding issues coming out of Beckhoff (?) the actual current is apparently lower. We may bump these up by another tenth of an amp to see if this brings the output power back up.

PMC transmitted power is lower by ~1W (and noisier), either due to the lower power out of the amplifiers or the misalignment I can clearly see on the PMC REFL camera. I'll plan to try and touch that up, along with RefCav alignment, before the work in the enclosure for the installation of the SPI pickoff starts tomorrowEdit: I forgot that the picomotor driver for the PSL is shared with IOT2L and lives on that table which is fully disconnected for vent work.

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LHO VE
jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:08, Monday 14 April 2025 (83893)
Morning Purge Air Checks 4-14-25

Morning dry air skid checks, water pump, kobelco, drying towers all nominal.

Dew point measurement at YBM , approx. -44C

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LHO FMCS (PEM)
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:03, Monday 14 April 2025 (83892)
Checking HVAC Fans - Weekly FAMIS 26372

Closes FAMIS26372, last checked in alog83723.

Nothing of note on the scopes, everything looks like it did during the last check.

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H1 SEI
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:29, Monday 14 April 2025 (83891)
Local earthquake

There were some earthquakes overnight, they bled into multiple bandwidths. There was a smaller local and a larger pacific EQ within 15 minutes of each other, a 6.5 near Fiji and a 2.5 from northern Washington about ~19 hours ago.

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H1 General
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:30, Monday 14 April 2025 (83890)
OPS Monday day shift start

TITLE: 04/14 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 1mph Gusts, 0mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.13 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

The vent continues, on the Trello for today is:

LHO VE
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:15, Sunday 13 April 2025 (83888)
Sun CP1 Fill

Sun Apr 13 10:08:59 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 56secs

 

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LHO VE
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:13, Saturday 12 April 2025 (83885)
Sat CP1 Fill

Sat Apr 12 10:09:32 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 9min 29secs

 

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H1 ISC
camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:56, Friday 11 April 2025 - last comment - 17:06, Monday 14 April 2025(83875)
ISC HAM1 Components

Elenna, Matt, Camilla. Continuing ISC component inspection and prep for re-installation from 83858

Elenna, Matt and I continued to first contact the optics in pans 1 and 2:  M7, M11, M12 (new 90/10 BS), M13, M15 (New 50/50 BS), M16, M17, M18. After again inspecting some of those we cleaned yesterday, we decided to re-clean some. Some needed multiple first contacting, they aren't all perfect (there is a 1" long incredibly hard to see line on M15 and a mark in the center of M18 photo that I will ask a second option on), but otherwise we are calling these two pans of optics ready for re-installation

For M15, I installed the picomotors that I removed from the right handed mount into a left handed siskiyou mount. I installed the manually adjustable actuators removed from the left handed mount into the right handed mount, this will be stored. Notes on how to do this are attached.

Still to be done: decide if M15 and M18 are okay or need swapping, clean optics in pan 3; inspect periscope mirrors; swap out any glass beamdumps we can. 

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 13:58, Monday 14 April 2025 (83898)

In this alog, M18 is actually M10, E1000669 S/N 014, HR1064HT532. After speaking with Keita, we plan to replace the optics I couldn't clean, M10 and M15. 

I have swapped the pan location of M15 and L2, so that L2 is now M15 is in pan#1 and L2 is in pan#2. This has been updated in the googledoc.

Sheila and I were concerned that the not closed-edge large white cloths could be causing more dust to fall on the optics, but the ones we packed on Friday still looked fine today so we think that is not an issue. We put individual closed-edge white cloths over each optic in pan 2. All the optics in pan 2 (HW1, L2, M7, M17) are clean and ready to install and it's placed back in the HAM3 cleanroom rack.

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 17:06, Monday 14 April 2025 (83916)

This afternoon Matt and I first contacted M1, M5, M6, M14, M18 and the new optics for M10 (E1000669-v1 S/N:?) and M15 (E040512-B1 S/N: 826-08). We're leaving a second coat on M1, M10 and M15 overnight, the center of the others all look good. 

H1 General
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:30, Friday 11 April 2025 (83873)
OPS Friday day shift summary

TITLE: 04/11 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: BSC8 work finished up and doors were put back on, HAM1 work continues, the ISI is all packed up and ready to move over to its new home.
LOG:

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
14:15 FAC Randy LVEA N HAM1 clean up 14:38
1416 FAC Kim & Nellie LVEA N Tech clean, Nellie out 15:43 16:16
14:58 FAC Randy, Chris LVEA N Craning, 15:30 Chris in 16:46
15:20 VAC Jordan LVEA N Purge air checks 15:31
15:36 ISC Camilla LVEA N HAM5/6 CR first contacting HAM1 optics 17:17
15:45 ISC Elenna LVEA N Join Camilla 16:58
16:32 VAC Jordan LVEA N HAM1 Feedthrough swap 19:39
16:46 IAS Jason LVEA N Scale reading attempt of the support tube, plus pack up FARO 17:02
16:47 VAC Betsy, Travis, Jordan LVEA n HAM1 feedthroughs, Betsy out 19:23 21:59
16:57 ISC Carlos LVEA N Checks 19:07
17:00 FAC Richard LVEA N Talk to Camilla 17:08
17:04 EE Marc Mezz N Label powersupplys 17:36
18:10 ISC Josh, Keita Optics lab LOCAL BS mirror measurements, Keita out 19:47 20:31
18:16 ISC TJ LVEA N Help with HAM1, cabling 19:05
18:39 FIT Matt Yarm N Going for a jog 19:01
18:59 ISC Camilla, Elenna LVEA N First contacting HAM1 optics, Elenna out 19:35 19:43
19:27 EPO Marc + Others LVEA N Tour 20:04
19:33 CDS Dave EndY N WD investigation 20:01
19:45 SEI Jim LVEA N Look at HEPIs 20:06
19:49 FAC Randy LVEA N Craning over YARM, BSC8 door prep 21:59
19:58 SUS Rahul LVEA N Grab RM1 and RM2 20:04
20:09 ISC Betsy LVEA N HAM1 cabling and BSC8 Door 21:59
20:27 FAC Richard LVEA N Safety checks 21:54
20:33 ISC Camilla, Matt LVEA N HAM5/6 CR Optics cleaning 21:12
20:46 IAS Jason LVEA N Check out IAS parts in a CR 20:53
21:13 ISC Camilla, Matt Optics lab LOCAL HAM1 optics work 22:34
21:17 OPS Oli LVEA N Talk with Betsy 21:38
23:20 ISC Camilla, Matt Optics lab N Take off first contact on optics Ongoing
LHO VE
jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:56, Friday 11 April 2025 - last comment - 13:29, Sunday 13 April 2025(83884)
Aril Vent - VAC Diary 4-11-25

Travis, Betsy, Randy, Jordan

- BSC8 -X door re-installed with one round of bolt torquing (will perform another round Monday), purge air increased prior to door install, then purge valve at YBM closed. Corner volume has slight overpressure and will be blown down to atm. prior to pumpdown

- Continued installation of HAM1 electrical feedthrus

- Scroll pump staged for CP1 RGA pumpdown and bake-out

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janos.csizmazia@LIGO.ORG - 13:29, Sunday 13 April 2025 (83889)
Guys, when you blow the corner down, please don't forget to measure dew point of the blowdown air. Thanks!
H1 PSL
joshua.freed@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:45, Friday 11 April 2025 (83863)
Power Ratio Measurements of the SPI Pickoff BS

J. Freed,

Today, with the gracious help of K. Kawabe, I took power meaurments of the SPI Pickoff BS (BST11) and its spare using S-polarized light

Results of the BST11 power ratio measurements for S-pol light
Optic Reflected Power Transmited Power 
Main optic (TP03547140) 77% ± 7.7% 21% ± 2.1%
Spare(TP03435437) 76% ± 7.6% 22% ± 2.2%
Expected values from ThorLabs  81% 18% (BST11_Data.xlsx)

Due to the limited time and person power, we used a S121C PD to take these measurments, which we now realize has a 7% uncertainty at 1064nm with a >1mm diameter beam. Although we relized that the beam was too large after we finished the measurment of the main optic and added a lens to focus the beam during the spare measurement, we have no idea if the beam was ever below the 1mm threashold. As such even though we were using a PM100D power monitor which has a resolution of 0.1 mW, we have to quote an uncertainty of 10% of the final value for our meaurments. This is colaberated by the fact that mulitiple measurments of the same beam could yeild different reults when the PD was taken out of the beam path and put back in, but remained steady if left alone.

SPI-BS-PWR_MEAS.png Shows the measurment set up. The only pick off that was available was p-polarized, as such, we added another half wave plate/PBS combo to get S-Polarized light to our BS

There also existed a ghost beam from the AR-Coated wedge side of the BS that was not taken into acocount for the main optic but was for the spare. Though we dont think the ghost beams affected this measurment as they were 3 orders of magnitude of power below the main beams.

SPIPBSRATIOMEAS-3.txt is a text file containing extra notes as well as the power values measured. The power ratios were found by taking an average of all the trials and then divided by the power we measured just before the beam splitter.

 

 

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H1 SUS (CSWG, SEI, SUS)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:35, Friday 11 April 2025 - last comment - 16:20, Friday 11 April 2025(83880)
Comparison of all DOFs of SUS PR3 M1 In-air vs. In-vac TFs
J. Kissel

Figured I'd make the same in-air vs. in-vac comparison of the whole 6 x 6 transfer function matrix for H1 SUS PR3 like I did for SR3 in LHO:83831.


                 D R I V E   D O F 
          L     T     V     R     P     Y

     L    --    meh   meh   meh   eand  YI
 
R    T    meh    --   nd    eand  meh   meh
E 
S    V    YI    YI    --    nd    meh   nd
P
     R    meh   eand  YI    --    YI    meh
D 
O    P    eand  YI    YI    YI    --    nd
F
     Y    YI    nd    nd    nd    nd    --

Recall the legend is 
  YI = Yes, Interesting. DC response magnitude is a bit different between vac and air, but not by much and all the resonances show up at roughly the same magnitude.
 meh = The resonant structure is different in magnitude, but probably just a difference in measurement coherence
eand = The cross coupling is expected, and not different between air and vac.
  nd = Not Different (and unmodeled). The cross-coupling is there, but it doesn't change from air to vac.

(1) For some reason, the data quality on the upper diagonal is worse for the PR3 in-air TFs vs. SR3's but better on the lower diagonal. The "mehs" in PR3's cases are more "man, I wish the coherence was better so we could make a better statement."
(2) For the most part, the same DOFs that are "Yes, Interesting" for PR3 are "Yes, Interesting" for SR3.

Needs a more careful study, but we're only looking at crappy in-air vs. good in-vac data because we're vented right now, and we want to see if it's sensible to measure these things in air, fit the data, and trust that that fit will work in vacuum. 
Given that we're seeing *any* of these elements as "Yes, Interesting -- there's a difference between in-air and in-vac" means that we're getting scared away from do that -- the problem is hard enough! We'll probably just end up waiting for the SUS to be back at vacuum in a few weeks.
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edgard.bonilla@LIGO.ORG - 16:20, Friday 11 April 2025 (83883)

I am adding a comparison between SR3 and PR3 in the attached pdf.

These are the in vacuum measurments for SR3 from 2024-08-08 (in solid red) vs. the in-vacuum ones for PR3 from LHO aLog 80683 (in dashed blue).

At a glance, the M1 Transverse and Vertical couplings to M1 Yaw are at the level we considered *bad* for PR3, so I think we might have to consider these couplings into account when we implement the estimator. We will have to see how the ISI interacts with these couplings before deciding that it is a problem.

 

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H1 PSL
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:34, Friday 11 April 2025 (83881)
PSL Status Report - Weekly

Laser Status:
    NPRO output power is 1.839W
    AMP1 output power is 69.11W
    AMP2 output power is 139.0W
    NPRO watchdog is GREEN
    AMP1 watchdog is GREEN
    AMP2 watchdog is GREEN
    PDWD watchdog is GREEN

PMC:
    It has been locked 1 days, 3 hr 1 minutes
    Reflected power = 22.81W
    Transmitted power = 104.6W
    PowerSum = 127.4W

FSS:
    It has been locked for 2 days 23 hr and 35 min
    TPD[V] = 0.8157V

ISS:
    The diffracted power is around 4.2%
    Last saturation event was 4 days 5 hours and 23 minutes ago


Possible Issues: None reported

H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:19, Friday 11 April 2025 - last comment - 10:19, Saturday 12 April 2025(83878)
ETMY HWWD Test

Visually the ETMY HWWD looks nominal, all power LEDs are green. To test I unplugged the top monitor connector and after a few seconds the LED-FAULT red led lit up. After 8 seconds I plugged the monitor connector back in which cleared the LED-FAULT light.

Attached trend shows the HWWD STAT go to 8 (led current fault) and the countdown timer started counting down from 20 minutes (seconds channel shown).

It appears there is no problem with the HWWD unit itself, and the change in behavior since the power outage must be related to something upstream (satellite amps). I'll pass this onto Fil for further testing.

At this point I'm not sure if the ETMY hardware watchdog system is fully functional, but bear in mind this is a secondary watchdog to the IOP SWWD.

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 10:19, Saturday 12 April 2025 (83886)

To show how ETMY HWWD has changed since the power outage, the attached 7 day trend shows its noisy behavior up until the power outage 18:05 Sun 06apr2025 and its zero noise state since. Yesterday's test shows up at the -20hr mark.

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H1 SUS
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:56, Friday 11 April 2025 - last comment - 15:38, Friday 11 April 2025(83876)
ITMY ready for doors

I took transfer functions for ITMY's M0 and R0 to check for any rubbing that might have been caused by the negative pitch adjustment made to R0 (83865). Most importantly, we wanted to make sure that a negative pitch offset in the R0 OPTICALIGN OFFSET sliders wouldn't cause R0 to hit anything when driven. The negative pitch means that R0 is tilted away from M0, so the bottom of R0 juts towards the bottom of M0.

First I took a set of regular R0 transfer function measurements with the R0 offset sliders at 0. These look good.

I then set the R0 Pitch offset slider to -250, which we are unlikely to go past (typically that slider is set to mid +200s). We called this the 'closest approach'. I wasn't able to set the slider to its full offset of -440, because then the DAC range is so limited that we aren't able to drive it to take any measurements. These transfer functions also all look good. We especially made sure that Pitch was looking good and not rubbing anywhere.

To be even more certain that we weren't going to end up with anything touching, we ran a few transfer functions on M0 with a 'double closest approach' setup. With the R0 Pitch slider still set to -250, I changed the M0 Pitch slider to +250, tilting the bottom of M0 towards the bottom of R0, putting them even closer. I then checked Pitch, Vertical, and Yaw, with Pitch being the most important in telling us whether we were anywhere near close to having them hit anything. Those also all came back clean (Yaw looks weird but Jeff assured me that that's due to cross-coupling movement that went away when we reran it with damping loops on*).

We are confident that the adjustments made in the chamber didn't put us at risk of rubbing, and so doors are clear to go on. Once doors are back on we will check again.

These measurements have been committed to svn and can be found at:

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGR0/Data/2025-04-10_1800_H1SUSITMY_R0_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p01to50Hz.xml         r12208

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGR0/Data/2025-04-10_2200_H1SUSITMY_R0_WhiteNoise_{L,T,V,R,P,Y}_0p01to50Hz.xml         r12208

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/2025-04-11_1600_H1SUSITMY_R0_WhiteNoise_{V,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml               r12212         

Results have been committed to svn and can be found in:

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGR0/Results/2025-04-10_1800_H1SUSITMY_R0_ALL_TFs.pdf                      r12210

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGR0/Results/2025-04-10_2200_H1SUSITMY_R0_ALL_TFs.pdf                      r12210

 

* Full explanation from Jeff: "the 'weirdness' in yaw is the several frequency points where the reference looks smooth as a function of frequency between resonances, and the new data has 'lots' of single-data-point excursions from that smoothness. I attribute this to lack of coherence, and lots of motion on the QUAD. Yaw is a differential measurement of F2 and F3. We’re already having to drive less than normal because we have large offsets on. But also, we typically see that since there’s lots of motion, the imperfect calibration of the F2 and F3 sensors shows up, and lots of other DOF’s resonances show up at a low level where they shouldn’t. Turning on the damping loops and measuring again with them on is the confirming evidence that this is what’s going on. We took the same TF with the R0 and M0 chains damped and they look good."

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oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 12:44, Friday 11 April 2025 (83877)
Measurement Mass? R0 OPTICALIGN OFFSET Pitch value M0 OPTICALIGN OFFSET Pitch value Description
2025-04-10_1800 R0 0 -108 (nominal) nominal
2025-04-10_2200 R0 -250 -108 R0 closest approach; R0 bottom tilted towards M0
2025-04-11_1600 M0 -250 +250 R0, M0 both closest approach; bottoms tilted towards each other

 

oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 15:38, Friday 11 April 2025 (83882)

Adding a PDF of the M0 measurements taken earlier, along with L, T, and R for M0 taken in that same configuration. These cannot be analyzed because they were taken with a different bin width, but more official measurements will be taken next week.

These extra measurements have been committed ot the svn and can be found at:

.../QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/2025-04-11_1600_H1SUSITMY_R0_WhiteNoise_{L,T,R}_0p02to50Hz.xml               r12215

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H1 IOO (PSL)
elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:21, Monday 07 April 2025 - last comment - 11:09, Monday 14 April 2025(83794)
Found PSL beam through IMC trans and refl viewports on HAM2

[Betsy, Keita, Camilla, Richard M., Elenna]

After the power outage, we wanted to get some confirmation of PZT pointing out of the PSL. Betsy, Keita and Camilla went in the cleanroom with the IR viewer and indicator cards and took the covers off the IMC refl and trans viewports on HAM2. Keita found the beam out of the IMC REFL viewport, and I adjusted the IMC PZT in pitch and yaw under direction from Keita. I accidentally moved the pitch slider a bit at the beginning due to user error. Then, we took large steps of 1000 or 2000 counts to move the offsets in pitch and yaw.

Start values: pitch: 22721, yaw: 5488

End values: pitch: 21192, yaw: 6488

Then, Betsy found the beam out of the IMC TRANS viewport and Richard marked the beam spot approximately on the outside of the cleanroom curtain with a red sharpie. This is super rough but gives us a general location of the beam. We think this is a good enough pointing recovery to proceed with vent activities.

 

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 16:43, Monday 07 April 2025 (83797)

During this work, PSL waveplate rotetor was set to 200mW and then de-energized. I haven't re-energized as we don't need higher power for a long time.

PSL laser pipe was temporarily opened for this task and was closed after.

Attached video shows the flashing of the beam in MC TRANS path. The alignment from the PSL through the IMC is not crazy. Any further refinement should be done after we start pumping down the corner before we install HAM1 optics.

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ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - 11:09, Monday 14 April 2025 (83899)

Accepting PZT offsets in h1ascimc SAFE.snap table.

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