This afternoon at about 5.15pm the alarm handler went off for this channel: H0:FMC-MY_CY_H20_SUP_DEGF

I'm not sure what it refers to, but I plotted the trend for the past 2 days and it doesn't seem to be doing anything particularly unusual.

I aknowledged the alarm.

Bubba and crew craning at End-Y.  Done by 9:30.
Maggie to End-Y
Corey at HAM3 for SEI cabling

Alex and others to End-Y to power a microphone

Eric A. - installing HEPI valve plates

12:45 - Hanford call testing sirens

Craning and work with cabling inside HAM3 for Seismic

Common mode board A at H2 EY (S/N S1102638)
(Jax S., Daniel S.)

We changed the common generic filter to a double pole 100kHz/Q=0.85. This is to replace the Pomona box that was used to suppress the PZT resonance around 250kHz-300kHz. 

R129 -> 2.67K
R130 -> 1.30K
R131 -> 0
R132 -> 0
C207 -> 1.5n
C206 -> 470p

This allowed us to push the ugf to just above 30kHz with a phase margin of 45 degrees. We backed off with the gain set to -6dB in the input section which leaves us with a ugf around 28kHz and a phase margin of close to 50 degrees.

Common mode board B at H2 EY (S/N S1102637)

We also changed the fast monitor into the Beckhoff on the cavity locking servo to be unity gain rather than 10.

R271 -> 0
R272 -> NL

As I mentioned on Friday, I noticed a coherent shift of the HEPI platform on HAM3 as I was locking it up in preparation for ISI measurements.  Hugo gave me a window this morning so I unlocked the HEPI again and very thoroughly looked for interferences that might be pushing it out of our aligned location.  I could find no non-suspended elements touching suspended portions aside from a few of the temporarily run in-air cables.  I can't imagine that these contacts could pull the system around.
Once it was all released I pushed on the crossbeams to 'see' knocking.  I could not detect anything that looked like something running into something else but I did notice that the vertical moved fairly easily whereas horizontal motion was very stiff.  I'm trying to understand why this would be but nothing is so far revealed.  Thoughts?

For the record, based on the dial indicators, I see a CCW rotation of about 250urad caused by a shift to the east of the south side of about 0.5mm.

Issue with watchdog tripped - Richard, Filiberto, Hugo
Corrected, can now actuate

We managed un-tripping the coil driver chassis bio watchdog of HAM3 by:

• Adjusting connections between the Coil Drivers and the BIO Iterface Chassis (needs confirmation)
• Setting the BIO to the right state in ISI_CUST_CHAMBER_BIO.adl

In Vacuum cabling - Corey, Hugo
CPS H3 and CPS V3 were swapped - corrected 

I took spectra on our sensors this morning and noticed H3 and V3 were swapped. Corey went looking at it and located it on the in-vaccum side of the feedthrough.

Using the PT-410B vacuum gauge, we looked at the pressure in End-Y volume since its pumpdown began in early June 2012 (see attached plot). The first ~10 days is before the gate-valve that opens to the cryo pump was opened. Opening to the cryo pump reduced the pressure by a factor of 10. The start time for the plot (i.e., the offset that we subtracted from the time stamp) was adjusted (at the 0.1 day level) by hand so that the pre-GV opening segment was a striaight line in the log-log plot.

The two black lines are by-eye fits to the pumpdown curves. The slope of the first segment is 1/t^{0.68}; since the GV opening, the pumpdown is a little faster, at 1/t^{0.88}.

(Matt E, Peter F)

As part of gearing up for aLIGO CW and Stochastic analysis detector characterization,
a number of us are developing and starting to use new or enhanced spectral line finding
tools. We plan to apply these various tools to this summer's OAT data in the hope of
1) making the tools better via exposure to real data; 2) identifying spectral lines early
on that can be mitigated; and 3) cataloging lines that we have to live with in aLIGO.

A wiki clearinghouse for OAT spectral line studies can be found here. For now it has
mostly documentation on tools and channel selections, but over time it will be populated
with study results.

One important tool is an enhanced version of the familiar Fscan program. Greg Mendell
has started creating daily Fscan plots for locked-arm data (defined by the mean value of
H2:ISC-ALS_EY_REFL_PWR_MON_OUT16 over 1 minute lying in the range 4300-8000 -- see wiki
above for explanation). The Fscans generated so far cover only the days of July 16 and 20,
chosen because each had more than five hours of locked-arm data.

I have used the half-hour SFTs generated during the Fscanning to look at average spectra
for the calibrated OAT feedback channel H2:SUS-ETMY_M0_LOCK_L_IN1_DQ for July 16 (5 hours)
and July 20 (9 hours) with 0.56 mHz binning. Two different averages were computed, one
being a simple arithmetic average, the other a noise weighted average that is almost, but
not quite the same as a harmonic mean. (The same method was used to compute unweighted
and weighted averages for h(t) for all of S5 and S6, as discussed in more detail here.)
Generally speaking, one expects the weighted average to be lower than the unweighted
average and to have a smaller variance. Large differences between unweighted and
weighted averages indicate non-stationary bands.

The figures below show the results:

Full spectrum (0-1000 Hz) for July 16 (unweighted and weighted averages)
Full spectrum (0-1000 Hz) for July 20 (unweighted and weighted averages)
Full spectrum (0-1000 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)
Zoomed spectrum (0-2 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)
Zoomed spectrum (2-10 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)
Zoomed spectrum (10-100 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)
Zoomed spectrum (100-200 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)
Zoomed spectrum (200-800 Hz) for July 16 and 20 together (weighted only)

Some quick observations:

The full spectrum is "rich" with structure (how much of it is relevant to
eventual aLIGO operations is not clear, however)
The July 20 noise is below that of July 16 over most of the full band (good to see!)
Here is a small sampling of line artifacts above 10 Hz (band of direct interest to the CW/Stochastic groups):

120 Hz is easily seen, but 60 Hz is much weaker in July 16 data (stronger in July 20 data -- was there a 60-Hz notch on this channel on July 16?) There is a peak near 180 Hz (179.9 Hz), but I don't think it's a 60-Hz harmonic. 
There is a persistent comb at 2.74 Hz seen out to at least the 25th harmonic in the July 16 data, but quite mitigated in the July 20 data
There is a very strong line at 29.375 Hz with rapidly weakening harmonics visible at 58.75 Hz, 88.125 Hz and 117.5 Hz 
Other strong lines below 200 Hz include 77.30 Hz (and harmonic at 154.60 Hz), 78.15 Hz, 89.54 Hz (and harmonic at 179.08 Hz), 90.40 Hz (and harmonic at 180.80 Hz), and 105.92 Hz
 


Chores ahead of us include dealing with some auxiliary channel issues in Fscans, getting Virgo's NOEMI line-finding tool to work with only locked-arm data, resurrecting automated coherence measurements between the OAT feedback channel and ~100 auxiliary channels -- and digesting all of the results once they appear. 

Future reports will be posted both here in the alog and on the wiki page. 

Patrick changed the Beckhoff channel name for the ref cav trans to H2:PSL-FSS_TPD_DC_OUTPUT and restarted the Beckhoff EPICS IOC on h2ecatey. I then added this channel to the H2EDCU_ECATEY.ini slow chans file and restarted the H2 DAQ Friday afternoon.  This channel can now be trended from H2 DAQ.

This DAQ restart also picked up new fast INI files for H2SUSETMY, H2SUSITMY, H2ISCEY following work by Jeff K and Bram.

The H1.ipc and H2.ipc files were filled with historic false starts. So I rebuilt both ipc files and recompiled all H1 and H2 models which send or receive using IPC (all three types: shared mem; pcie dolphine; rfm gefanuc).

During our commissioning of the H1 HAM3 ISI I noticed I had made a copy-paste error in the IOP model h1iopseih23 which I corrected. A full code restart of this front end was done around 5pm Friday.

Attached are plots of dust counts > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot.

Also attached are plots of dust counts for the two dust monitors at end Y, both > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot over approximately four hours this evening ending at ~ 8:00 PM. They slowly increased and have remained high. I drove out to the end station to investigate, but did not notice anything to attribute it to.

J. Kissel, T. Vo

After finally getting the optical levers aligned while the optics were aligned in a good state for the cavity, I've taken a spectra of both H2 SUS ITMY and H2 SUS ETMY in the quiet time mentioned in the isolationist data miner's dream. 

There're lots of fun features, differences, and similarities between the two test mass spectra, that will be good to noodle over. This will be excellent material to try to reproduce via models!


If anyone wants to gather future data, this calibrated template lives here:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/Common/Data/2012-07-27_H2OAT_Oplev_ASDs.xml

I've set up the ITMY and ETMY chambers in (what I *think* is) their current best-performance state, such that we can get a nice long quiet stretch of data over the weekend. I say *think* because I never nailed down Fabrice enough to tell me the exact blend configuration of the ISIs that was best for the cavity. Also unfortunately, I didn't catch the ISC team in time to request a lock of the cavity, and I don't know how to do it myself :- (which naturally means there's no ISC control going to either chambers).

ANYWAYS, Here's the setup, as of Jul 28 2012 02:00 UTC (7:15p PT, 1027476016):

HPIs
    - ITMY 
        - ISO Loops ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ (No HP or VP)
        - No boost
        - 800 mHz Blend on all DOFs
        - (No sensor correction or feed-forward)
    - ETMY
        - ISO Loops ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ, HP, VP
        - No boost
        - 800 mHz Blend on all DOFs
        - (No sensor correction or feed-forward)
ISIs
     - ITMY
        - Stage 1
             - Damping ON
             - Isolation ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ
                  - In X & Y: 250 mHz blend of L4Cs and CPSs only (no T240s)
                  - In Z RX RY RZ: 750 mHz blend of L4Cs and CPSs only (no T240s)
             - (No ST1-ST2 feed-forward)
        - Stage 2
             - Damping ON
             - Isolation ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ
                  - In X & Y: 100 mHz blend of GS13s and CPSs
                  - In Z RX RY RZ: 750 mHz blend of GS13s and CPSs
     - ETMY
        - Stage 1
             - Damping ON
             - Isolation ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ
                  - In X & Y: 250 mHz blend of L4Cs and CPSs only (no T240s)
                  - In Z RX RY RZ: 750 mHz blend of L4Cs and CPSs only (no T240s)
             - (No ST1-ST2 feed-forward)
        - Stage 2
             - Damping ON
             - Isolation ON; X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ
                  - In X & Y: 100 mHz blend of GS13s and CPSs
                  - In Z RX RY RZ: 750 mHz blend of GS13s and CPSs
QUADs
     - ITMY
        - M0 (TOP) 
             - Damping ON; [zeros:poles]
                  - L: FM1 [0:15,15], FM3 [0.43Boost2], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -20.0
                  - T: FM1 [0:50,50], FM3 [0.43Boost2], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -20.0
                  - V: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -6.0
                  - R: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.3
                  - P: FM1 [0:25,25], FM2 [0.54Boost],FM3 [1.13Boost], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.1
                  - Y: FM1 [0:20,20], FM2 [0.6Boost], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -1.0
        - L1 (UIM)
             - Damping ON:
                  - L: FM1 [0:50,50], FM9 [Ellip20], G = -5.0
                  - P: FM1 [0:50,50], FM2 [0.6boost], FM9 [Ellip20], G = -3.0
                  - Y: (OFF) 
     - ETMY
        - M0 (TOP) 
             - Damping ON; [zeros:poles]
                  - L: FM1 [0:15,15], FM3 [0.43Boost2], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -20.0
                  - T: FM1 [0:50,50], FM3 [0.43Boost2], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -20.0
                  - V: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -6.0
                  - R: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.3
                  - P: FM1 [0:25,25], FM2 [0.54Boost],FM3 [1.13Boost], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.1
                  - Y: FM1 [0:20,20], FM2 [0.6Boost], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -1.0
        - L1 (UIM)
             - Damping ON:
                  - L: FM1 [0:50,50], FM9 [Ellip20], G = -5.0
                  - P: FM1 [0:50,50], FM2 [0.6boost], FM9 [Ellip20], G = -3.0
                  - Y: (OFF) 
FMY
     - M1 (TOP)
             - Damping ON:
                  - L: FM1 [0:15,15], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -5.0
                  - T: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -10.0
                  - V: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -2.0
                  - R: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.3
                  - P: FM1 [0:25,25], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -0.05
                  - Y: FM1 [0:20,20], FM10 [Ellip50], G = -1.0  
TMTS
     - M1 (TOP)
             - Damping ON
                  - L: FM1 [damp30], FM2 [boost450m], FM10 [ELF10], G = -20.0
                  - T: FM1 [damp30], FM2 [boost450m], FM10 [ELF15], G = -7.0
                  - V: FM1 [damp30], FM10 [ELF10], G = -10.0
                  - R: FM1 [damp30], FM10 [ELF10], G = -20.0
                  - P: FM1 [damp30], FM10 [ELF10], G = -10.0
                  - Y: FM2 [dampYaw], FM10 [ELF10], G = -10.0


AND, the Optical lever beams are on the QPDs for both test masses. 

I've made copies of each of the above mentioned systems Foton Filter files, and stuck them in the userapps repository under,

hpi/h2/filterfiles/H2HPIETMY.txt
hpi/h2/filterfiles/H2HPIITMY.txt
isi/h2/filterfiles/H2ISIETMY.txt
isi/h2/filterfiles/H2ISIITMY.txt
sus/h2/filterfiles/H2SUSETMY.txt
sus/h2/filterfiles/H2SUSFMY.txt
sus/h2/filterfiles/H2SUSITMY.txt
sus/h2/filterfiles/H2SUSTMSY.txt

and committed to revision 2718.

Assembly/In-vacuum cabling - Hugh, Jim, Greg, Hugo
ready

• Actuators and sensors connected in vacuum
• In-field cables connected to the feedthroughs
• ADE boxes of the CPSs grounded
• Rough balancing performed
• Locked/Unlocked shift checked (about 0.8v, worse case, on horizontal CPSs)
• Cables (SEI, ISC) dressed to avoid rubbing while taking transfer Functions
  
   

• Sensors and actuators were inverted on the input of the Anti-Alias chassis - corrected
• ADC/DAC organization in the IO chassis was unclear - clarified by testing
• IOP model issues causing a wrong routing of the ADC/DAC signals - corrected
• HAM3-ISI model installed
• HAM3-ISI model updated:
  • ADC to Master model connections modified to match with the in-field cabling.
  • Unused DAC block removed.
• Watchdogs are tripped due to the Coil Driver Chassis BIO. Impossible to reset the watchdogs, and then actuate on the ISI.
  • Coildrivers are ON.
  • Overheat lights are off.
  • The overheat alarm reset-button  was pushed.
  • Coil drivers are connected to the BIO chassis. 
• All testing scripts, but the ones that involve driving were successfully tested
• Matriced loaded in MEDM.

It appears that communication was lost to the end X weather station at around 16:44 7/27/2012 UTC. Restarting the IOC did not re-establish communication. I have not driven out to the end station to investigate further yet.

J. Kissel, D. Barker

Recently, the 
${userapps}/release/sus/common/models/SIXOSEM_F_STAGE_MASTER.mdl
had been updated in order to include signal exchange and CART2EUL and EUL2CART transformation with the ISI signals. Because the TMTS models use this library part, the 
${userapps}/release/sus/common/models/TMTS_MASTER.mdl
main library part, and the top level model,
${userapps}/release/sus/h2/models/h2sustmsy.mdl
needed to be updated to handle these new input and output ports.

I've done so on both the above mentioned models, and recompiled to ensure functionality (and was successful). Since this is an unimportant change, at the advice of Alberto, Dave and I agreed to just reinstall, restart, and restore the model during next Tuesday's (July 31 2012) maintenance period.

Further Notes:
---------------
- the original motivation and discovery of the problem was because Dave has noticed that the 
/opt/rtcds/lho/h2/chans/ipc/H2.ipc
(the file that stores the channel mapping for inter-process communication) had a whole bunch of old crap in it, so he deleted it, and wants to recompile all models that use IPC in order to refill it.

- These changes were made in parallel with other changes to top level models. Unfortunately, the commit log message that was intended for the h2susitmy commit 

- I've also added EPICs output channels which capture the IPC receive errors, called
H2:SUS-TMSY_ISC_IPC_PIT_ERR
H2:SUS-TMSY_ISC_IPC_YAW_ERR

which eventually can/should be included somewhere in MEDM screens.

I've added the following channels to the framebuilder:

$(IFO):SUS-$(OPTIC)_L3_OPLEV_SEG1_IN1     2048
$(IFO):SUS-$(OPTIC)_L3_OPLEV_SEG2_IN1     2048
$(IFO):SUS-$(OPTIC)_L3_OPLEV_SEG3_IN1     2048
$(IFO):SUS-$(OPTIC)_L3_OPLEV_SEG4_IN1     2048


which required adding these channels to the 
${userapps}/release/sus/common/models/QUAD_MASTER.mdl
then recompiling, reinstalling, restarting, and restoring the QUAD test mass models:
${userapps}/release/sus/h2/models/h2susitmy.mdl
${userapps}/release/sus/h2/models/h2susetmy.mdl

Before restarting, I created new safe.snap files, in
/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/h2/?tmy/h2sus?tmy_safe.snap
in order to capture the new optical lever calibration.

After restarting, I restored to the following snap files:
/ligo/cds/lho/h2/burt/2012/07/27/14:00/h2sus?tmyepics.snap