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Reports until 11:41, Friday 04 April 2014
H1 ISC
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:41, Friday 04 April 2014 - last comment - 13:49, Friday 04 April 2014(11176)
More EY PLL work (it fully works now). (Keita, Daniel)

Opened the PLL CM board chassis (S1002641) and Installed a notch filter daughter board S1300952 in the fast option slot. The notch frequency is about 290kHz now.

Put a timing comparator in the remote rack.

Recalibrated the DC diodes (fiber power, fiber wrong pol monitor, BBPD).

Auto locker worked with these things in place.

One odd thing was, when we started working the beat note was -40dBm or something, a big decrease from yesterday.

Then we started calibrating things, touched some steering mirrors to center the beam on DCPDs and such.

Then something happened, suddenly we're back to -10dBm beat note. We couldn't find out any obvious cause for this.

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 11:56, Friday 04 April 2014 (11177)

Power levels:

Fiber output is about 60uW.

About 3uW is sent to the fiber power monitor.

About 55uW goes to the PBS.

This morning 31uW was on the wrong polarization monitor PD (it was less yesterday).

About 24uW goes to 50:50 splitter and is combined with Prometheus IR.

From the Prometheus, about 39mW is coming to the PBS.

HWP was adjusted to send 1mW to the IR monitor diode path and 38mW to the 50:50 splitter that combines Prometheus and fiber.

In the Prometheus IR monitor path that receives 1mW, there is a pick off mirror that throws away most of the power and send 10% or something to the actual PD, but I didn't measure the splitting ratio there.

The BBPD receives 19mW.

daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - 13:49, Friday 04 April 2014 (11178)
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H1 General
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:28, Friday 04 April 2014 (11175)
Grout Removal from EY Op-Lev Pier
   The excess grout found on the Op-Lev receiver pier at End-Y has been removed. The grout was kept damp during the removal process to hold down dust contamination. Dust counts were monitored during the process and although elevated no readings over 9000 0.3 micron particles per sample time were recorded. The surrounding floor area has been recleaned.   
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LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:21, Friday 04 April 2014 (11172)
~0915 hrs. local -> Switched IP6 from 5000V to 7000V


			
			
H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:27, Friday 04 April 2014 (11168)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Thursday 3rd April 2014

no restarts reported.

H1 SEI (INS)
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:01, Thursday 03 April 2014 - last comment - 07:00, Friday 04 April 2014(11166)
Something is buzzy at EY

I spent today working on the high isolation filters for ETMY, and was able to install them today. However, when I went to tried to turn them on, I found a 30-ish hz peak in my seismometer spectra that seems to be ringing up the ISI. It's there even with the damping off, so something is creating some ground motion out there. RichM and I went down and turned the last 2 cleanrooms off, but the peak is still there. Rich noted the scroll pump was still on  but was doubtful that would cause the problem. The peak is clearly visible in the attached plot, this is after we turned everything off.

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john.worden@LIGO.ORG - 07:00, Friday 04 April 2014 (11167)

The building HVAC main fan is a 25 horsepower fan running at ~29.5hz; the exact frequency depending on load. SF01 is currently running, The flow rate can be reduced to lessen the load on the fan and perhaps any vibration, alternately SF02 can be turned on. Ski or I should be able to swap fans if you want to try this. 

H1 AOS
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:05, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11165)
EY PLL locks (Alexa, Kiwamu, Keita)

We adjusted the fiber polarization box so we don't waste much fiber power.

We measured the beam profile of the fiber beam as well as the Prometheus red beam, and the latter has a much larger divergence angle.

We changed the position of the lens for the Prometheus such that it doesn't converge so quickly.

We scanned the temperature slowly and found the beat note. There seem to be two good temperature range, at around 35.62 and 33.77 deg C. The beat note was huge, -8dbm at 120MHz for the latter temperature.

We then locked the PLL (now it's fast only, as the frequency counter is not hooked up) and it locked. One thing is that the fast option seems to be missing (when we enable it, we have no fast output). We need to check the serial number of CM board.

EY PLL CM board: S1102641 ALS

EY PDH CM board: S1102632 ALS

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:23, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11161)
~1600 hrs. local -> Switched IP5 voltage from 5000V to 7000V


			
			
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:18, Thursday 03 April 2014 - last comment - 09:10, Friday 04 April 2014(11160)
ITMy fiber welding completed

Travis, Giles, Gary, Jason, Norna, Betsy

This afternoon, Travis, Gary, and Giles finished welding in fibers to the ITMy (ITM011) and it's glass PUM.  At some point during the welding process on Wed a roll of the Test Mass was introduced.  It was noticed this morning before the final destress/annealing took place.  The team attempted a correction to alleviate ~1/2 of the roll error which was somewhat successful.  After reevaluating the tolerance for roll with Dennis and Calum it was decided to leave the roll error as is.  The Test Mass is now hanging from the fibers.

 

Note, the roll error observed this morning was +/- 1.2mm (~7mRad).  We determined that this roll occured between welding the 2 sides of the suspension with the masses locked down the entire time.  The PUM did not show this large roll error.  After correcting and suspending the ITMy, the roll was found to be +/- 0.75mm (~4mRad).  While the roll "tolerance" has never really been set, we attempt to get the roll error within +/- 0.2 mm because that is what we have found we are able to do in all of the previous other monolithic suspensions.

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 16:26, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11162)

Email from Dennis regarding acceptable roll tolerances of an ITM:

Calum,
Using the Zemax model to ray trace, I find that a 7 mrad roll rotation
of the ITM causes only ~0.03 mm radial decentering of the beam at the BS
and a ~0.8 mm radial decentering of the beam at the PRM and at the SRM.
I think that this is acceptable.

Other effects of a DC roll error in the ITM:
- increased coupling of vertical ISI motion to roll motion of the ITM
... but so what?
- slight rotation in the of the phase maps of the ITM ... but so what?
- slight shift in the violin mode frequencies due to the length change
(I think the force in each is not changed due to the roll bias error),
but this is ~1 part in 1000 ... so likely within the violin mode
repeatability anyway?

-- 
Dennis Coyne
giles.hammond@LIGO.ORG - 18:07, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11164)SUS
Attached are some photos of the welds and the final suspension. As mentioned by Betsy, a +/-1.2mm (~7mRad) roll appeared between welding and with the ITM and PUM locked. As a result, during the destress, the PUM right welds developed a slight necking. The stock still has a large radius at this point and we will run some thermal noise models to verify that no significant change in performance is expected.
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mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - 08:58, Friday 04 April 2014 (11169)

To see if the residual roll was problematic, I prepared a case mark.barton/20140304TMproductionTMrollpert of the QuadLite2Lateral model with the latest monolithic parameters but with a perturbation to d4 (the height of the fibre attachment point above the optic COM) at each of the fibres, positive on one side and negative on the other. Even a perturbation of ±1.2 mm (the value reported to me before the extra de-stressing reduced it to 0.75 mm), there was no visible difference in any of the top mass force/torque to optic TFs and especially no extra peaks from cross coupling. This is to be expected because the optic is almost perfectly symmetrical in roll and the compliance of the fibres was not changed (the de-stressing did not touch the central section of the fibres so this was not changed in the model). So the performance of the suspension should not be degraded.

jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 09:10, Friday 04 April 2014 (11170)

Final alignment numbers for the monolithic (all directions/rotations reported from the view of the IAS equipment, i.e. looking at the HR face of the ITMy):

  • Pitch measurements
    • PUM: 740 µrad up
    • ITMy: 400 µrad down
    • Differential: 1.14 mrad down
    • Differential Spec: 2.0 mrad
  • Roll
    • PUM: ±0.15 mm CW
    • ITMy: ±0.9 mm CW
    • Differential: ±0.75 mm CW
  • Center of Mass Separation
    • Left: 600.5 mm
    • Right: 602.0 mm
    • Target (for both sides): 602.0 mm
H2 SEI (SEI)
mitchell.robinson@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:13, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11159)
Staging building, 3IFO (unit 3) progress
The stage 2 lower walls have been added. The bolts that go up through the optical table have all been torqued.
H2 SEI (SEI)
mitchell.robinson@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:13, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11158)
Staging building, 3IFO (unit 3) progress
The stage 2 lower walls have been added. The bolts that go up through the optical table have all been torqued.
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:11, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11157)
Connected portable RGA to beam tube port Y2-1 at Y-mid
Will be baking RGA over the next week or two(?) while connected to but isolated from Y2-1
H1 General
andres.ramirez@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:10, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11156)
Ops Shift Summary
8:58-11:09 Heading to EndX/EndY to attach some signs – Justin
9:09-12:00 Working by HAM3 TCS rack – Aaron
9:20-11:15 Using West crane to fly Leak Detector over YBM – Kyle
9:40-      Going to EndY to work on Oplev/Pcal Receiver Pylon – Craig 
9:40-10:00  Heading to EndY to remove excess grout from Op-Lev pier base – Jeff
10:15-12:00 Going into the LVEA West bay area – Betsy
10:48-12:00 Going to EndX TMS Lab – Corey
11:01-      Back to the LVEA for more TCS work - Aidan
11:09-12:00 Cleaning by the Beer garden area (LVEA) - Chris
12:40-14:16 Going to EndY to do cleaning work - Karen
12:40-14:49 Going to EndX to do cleaning work – Chris
13:37-14:20 Giving a tour in the LVEA - Fred
14:15-      Heading to End Y – Jeff
14:22-14:32 Closing PT-246 at Y-mid - Kyle


H1 SEI
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:31, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11155)
HAM3 HEPI L4C trip

I have turned up the watchdog threshold, the BS also tripped around the same time I will leave it for who ever untrips that to post the plot. 

This is the HEPI L4C WD that as Fabrice has told us we could defeat by raising the threshold, because the L4Cs are not in the loop. 

Since we are routinely defeating this watchdog, it seems like it would be much better if it didn't exist. 

Red letters are to make Rich happy.

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H1 ISC
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:14, Wednesday 02 April 2014 - last comment - 16:31, Thursday 03 April 2014(11144)
ALS WFS

Chris, Sheila, Alexa, Daniel,

This morning Chris rephased the ALS WFSs, and balanced the gains of the different sections.  Results were verry sensitive to the cavity alingment, so a few iterations were needed.  Then he measured the sensing matrix again several times, this also depends on the cavity alingment.  These three measurements were with as good of an alingment as we could find by hand (phase in degrees in parens for those elements where the phase was inconsistent):

  ETMX PIT ITMX PIT ETMX YAW ITMX YAW
WFS A -944, -994, -1211 858, 807, 613 -61.8, -61.9, -59.3 1043(-27), 1043(-107), 1031(40)
WFS B -580.2, -669, -877 766(15), 935(114), 801(-179) 52.0(-132), 52.1(-123), 51.4(-10) 568, 541, 570

With this information we zeroed out WFS B to ITMX PIT and ETMX YAW and WFS A to ITMX YAW, the elements where the phase wandered, and then inverted this. We also offloaded the WFS alingment signals to the top stage, to avoid saturating the DAC. 

Chris has also written a script that centers the WFS using the picomotors.  It is userapps/als/h1/scrpits/als_x_wfs_center.py

We have also written a wfs relieve script at userapps/als/h1/scrpits/WFS/alsWFSreleive.sh. This just relives the top stage, onto the offset of the M)_LOCK filter bank. 

We were then sucsessfull in turning on all 4 DOFs, and we turned up the gain, we estimate that we got a ugf of 1 Hz for both of the Pitch loops.  We made the attached measurement. In the left plot, the COMM noise measurement (no cavity pole removed) from monday night is the blue reference, and our measurement from tonight is in red.  The rms down to 0.1 Hz is 10Hz, still almost 30Hz down to 0.02 Hz.  We also have higher noise at 1-3 Hz, we don't know if this is caused by the changes to the WFS, or if it is just a difference in the ground motion.  Because of the earth quake we aren't able to repeat the measurement without WFS right now, but we looked at some coherences to try to understand. The top panel in the middle plot shows that the oplevs have coherence with the WFS control signals up to about 1 Hz.  We looked at some end X seismometer coherences and don't see anything (bottom panel of middle plot). The right plot shows that the oplevs do have coherence with the COMM Noise from 0.4-0.8 Hz. 

This data is saved as COMM_NOISE_April_2.xml in my COMM folder (sheila.dwyer/ALS/HIFOX/COMM)

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 16:31, Thursday 03 April 2014 (11163)

While going over these sensing matrix  measurements we found some problems with the templates, we can probably disregard the measurement.  A btter one is coming soon, we hope.

H1 SUS
travis.sadecki@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:32, Thursday 27 March 2014 - last comment - 09:19, Friday 04 April 2014(11044)
ITMx Monolithic Welding

The new ITMx monolithic welding has been successfully completed and was left suspended overnight last night.  The majority of the modal measurements have also been completed today, with the exception of the violin modes, which are proving to be trickier to measure than in previous suspensions.  We will continue with these measurements tomorrow with some different equipment.  Stay tuned for subsequent posts with IAS and modal measurement numbers.

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angus.bell@LIGO.ORG - 12:28, Friday 28 March 2014 (11062)
Modal frequencies of the test mass (ITMX) with the PUM nominally locked are:

ITMX				
          value	resolution		
Pendulum   0.649	0.002						
Pitch	   1.1153	0.002		
Yaw	   1.0928	0.002		
Bounce	   6.74 	0.016		
Roll	   9.195	0.016		

Violin modes				fibre serial number
BR	   499.9	0.06		S1400155
BL	   501.2	0.06		S1400156
FR	   500.8	0.06		S1400138
FL	   502.2	0.06		S1400153

[just as a note to self as much as anything - remember to use the Uniform window on the spectrum analyser for the violin modes when using the chirped sweep output]
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jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 09:19, Friday 04 April 2014 (11171)

Forgot to post this last week.  Final alignment numbers from the ITMx welding (all directions/rotations reported from the view of the IAS equipment, i.e. looking at the HR face of the ITMx):

  • Pitch
    • PUM: 10 µrad down
    • ITMx: 2.12 mrad down
    • Differential: 2.11 mrad down
      • The pitch of the ITMx in chamber is 619 µrad down, so we align the ITMx for the welding at this pitch.  Since we are targeting a differential pitch of 619 µrad down, we only missed our target by 1.49 mrad, which puts us within the 2.0 mrad differential pitch spec
    • Differential Spec: 2.0 mrad
  • Roll
    • PUM: ±0.05 mm CW
    • ITMx: ±0.25 mm CW
    • Differential: ±0.2 mm CW
  • Center of Mass Separation
    • Left: 601.3 mm
    • Right: 601.7 mm
    • Target (for both sides): 602.0 mm
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