Attached are plots of dust counts > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot requested from 5 PM March 27 to 5 PM March 28. Also attached are plots of the modes to show when they were running/acquiring data.

Data was taken from h1nds1.
T0=13-03-28-00-00-00; Length=86400 (s)
1440.0 minutes of trend displayed

Occupy Mon AM506 (-2133.6x,-182.8y) at HI -82.9 Lz, BackSite LV-22 (-2133.6x,-22692y)
Nominal Turn: HAR 270-01'45" ZA 90-00'02".  Sited Baffle Target at BS at HAR 270-03'10" ZA 89-59'28" for 85" & 34" error.
Over 1931mm these angles give position errors 0.8mm -Y & 0.3mm +Z from nominal
BS position (-202.7x,-183.8y) yields distance from AM506 1930.9mm nominal.  EDM w/ -30mm prism offset shot 1.8617m to retro-reflector.  Retro-reflector measured to be 2.709"=68.8mm from optic face (FC).  1930.9-1.8617-68.8 = 0.4mm -X of nominal.  I am told this is within spec (percomm DCook.)
Of course to get it here we did a number of HEPI moves monitoring the Dial Indicators on the ends of the Support Tubes.  Based on the DIs and 'adding' to the Optical Table leveling results from 25 March, the 'level' of the Optical Table is still +-0.1mm so should be fine.  Would like to confirm with AutoLevel shots directly on the Optical Table, maybe tomorrow.

Starting a round of transfer functions overnight on the beamsplitter.

The numerous 80K pump alarms today (and tomorrow, this weekend?) are the result of my cracking open the LN2 "bypass" valves on the site dewar plumbing.  The motivation for doing this is to prepare for the upcoming extended power outage.  As such, there are now two flow paths for the LN2 to fill each 80K pump, one is via the nominal CDS PID-controlled valve and a second which "goes around" this valve and which has no external control.  A few days of tweaking should allow us to maintain the pump levels with only a minor contribution from the PID-controlled flow path.  This will guarantee that some LN2 is always flowing through the "transfer" line even when the PID-controlled valve is closed (as will be the case with the loss of instrument air during the outage).  Having a minimum flow will prevent the transfer line from warming up and will greatly facilitate manual adjustments to the pump levels during the outage.  

WP 3785. Modified h1iopsusb123 model to add the BS suspension to the software watchdog system. Restarted h1susb123 at 16:06. The h1iopseib2 model was already setup for this and did not need restarting.

So now if either ITMY or BS or both have tripped top OSEM channels, both SEI BSC1 and SEI BSC2 will be tripped if SUS B123 is not bypassed.

I created a new BSC1 and BSC2 WD MEDM screen and made the appropriate links from the top WD screen.

• Pcal work in H2 PSL room
• Kyle manually adjusting bypass valves on cryo pump tanks, resulting in overflows
• Work on aligning IMC will go on later tonight
• Dave rebooting SUS frontends

After the recent update of the HLTS and HSTS opticalign sliders (see aLog 5866), I modified a few things for the alignment offsets in BS, ETMY and ITMY.

• Modified the sliders' range (in urad), to make it consistent with DAC's maximum output.

• Modified the OPTICALIGN gain for ETMY/ITMY, to make it consistent with the units displayed on the medm screen (urad instead of nrad)
• Entered the values of the OPTICALIGN gain for BSFM

Details :

In order to change the sliders range I modified the OPTICALIGN adl files by opening it with medm in edit mode, and changed the limit of the sliders.

SUS_CUST_BSFM_M1_OPTICALIGN.adl located in /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/common/medm/bsfm for BSFM
SUS_CUST_QUAD_${M0/R0}_OPTICALIGN.adl located in /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/common/medm/quad for ETM/ITM

The files have been commited to the svn as well as the new safe.snap files

We assisted Pablo with P-Cal fixtures today in the H-2 PSL enclosure and craned the dirty parts over the X arm for Michael Rodruck, and into the LEA on pallets. John and I cut the coupons out of the show and tell beam tube out at the weld shop, I will bend them next week at the Apollo shop. Viewports VPA2F1 &VPA2F4 were installed and torqued on HAM 1. Started installation of viewport G2 on BSC 2, will complete tomorrow. We wraped and transported 4 TMS Optical tables from EY to EX. We reajusted the lower limit on the EX crane so the hook and block do not contact the floor. We relocated IOT2 table from the east bay to the south bay near HAM 2 for Joe Gleason and Cheryl Vorvick and installed the viewport simulator for Cheryl.

I sealed up the two new HXTS that were placed in the meat locker yesterday. I also attached signage/drawings/ICS records to the five HXTS in the meat locker. I inventoried and separated MC Baffle parts this morning: small parts were placed in a tote and large parts were wrapped/attached to their shelf with plastic wrap and a few lengths of blue tamper-evident tape. I worked on AC and Elliptical Baffle parts this afternoon: there are two plastic wrapped and taped pallets on the floor level of Shelving Unit B in the West Bay containing these parts. I also applied signage to a HAM Shipping, HAM Storage, and BSC Storage Container for show-and-tell purposes.

For the 35W beam

Yesterday, as Gerardo noted, the PSL tripped. This was due to the NPRO shutting off, which then tripped the power watchdog and shut off the amplifier. The attached plot shows the power for the 2 NPRO diodes dropping out shortly before the power watchdog trips and shuts off the amplifier. The rack where the NPRO power supply is looked fine, so I don't know what exactly caused this.

[Keita, Corey, Kiwamu]
We worked at HAM2 and HAM3 to get the POP QPD path aligned and this is ongoing.

 We have set up a fiber-coupled green laser with a telescope at the stage by HAM2. This laser mimics the actual forward infrared beam (going toward PR2 from PRM). Since the laser launching setup is on the stage which is not quite stiff we found that the injection angle of the laser can be statically misaligned when a person stands on the same stage (typically a few mm shift of the beam spot at the iris in HAM3).
 After tweaking the green laser and a temporary in-vac steering mirror to get it through two existing irises (one at HAM2 and the other at HAM3), we moved on to alignment of the optics behind PR2. The position of the first steering mirror (3 inch mirror) was corrected such that the green beam hits a point which is 9 mm off from the center of the mirror in yaw. This is because that this mirror is supposed to catch both forward and backward POP beams who are separated by 18 mm from each other in yaw. Then we started tweaking two steering mirrors to let the beam go in to the QPD sled. An issue at the moment is that the green light is too dim on one of the QPDs and this is a known issue : the HR surface of the pick-off-BS is extremely transparent for 532 nm [1]. We tried a half-wave-plate to make the HR beam brighter like we did at EY [2], but this didn't help. We will try aligning them using the AR beam since the AR beam is bright enough to work with (although we have to do a math to predict the beam position of the HR beam from that of AR).

[1] LHO alog 5774 "50-50 IR beam splitter is a good AR for green"

[2] LHO alog 5829 "The alignment works in TMSY completed"

First check is to the wall - PSL input beam reflected off the vacuum input viewports.  Picture attached is annotated with progression of beam positions.  Beam is mapping out a space that is neither here (under vacuum position) nor there (in-air position), and currently at some new in-between position.  Two pictures attached.

Second check is in HAM2 at the periscope - beam is off in yaw by a beam radius, 2-3mm (on card).  One picture attached.

Third check - MC2 - centered there to the 2mm I could see on PRM.

Fourth check - MC3 - less precision but not off by a centimeter.

Beam from MC2 is going through the iris in front of MC3.

I found that the markers for the irises in front of MC1 and MC2 were gone, along with the irises (taken to align PRM).  This can be recovered, if we chose to do that, but unfortunately the original marked position is no longer.

- Cheryl, with help from Giacomo and Joe

[Cheryl, Joe, Giacomo]

First thing today, we relived the yaw offset on PRM. As a fiducial, we placed an iris in the rejected beam, at the edge of th table before it goes into HAM1. We then gradually remove the yaw offset from PRM and rotated the cage to keep the beam centered on the iris. After re-clamping the cage, our best estimate of the centering of the beam is with yaw = +50 (pitch is still +2000).

We also directed the parking beam through its baffle on top of HAM2. This required adjusting the position of the baffle slightly (pushing it towards the center of the viewport by ~1/4"). Parking values are yaw = -6000 and pitch = +2500. With this settings, the beam hits comfortably the parking mirror.

We also:

• adjusted the AOE2 baffle (in front of IM4) so that both the main beam and the parking beam clear it.
• insert an half wave plate in the FI and routed the forward rejected beam into its beam dump
• checked rough centering of the IMC beam on MC1/2/3 (as a sanity check)

Attached are plots of dust counts > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot requested from 5 PM March 26 to 5 PM March 27. Also attached are plots of the modes to show when they were running/acquiring data.

Data was taken from h1nds1.
T0=13-03-27-00-00-00; Length=86400 (s)
1440.0 minutes of trend displayed

Starting a round of matlab transfer functions overnight for the beamsplitter.

Our first complete look at the BS position told us we were 4.6mm south (-X), 2.3mm west (+Y) of nominal.  Elevation is <0.1mm away from nominal.

Seismic is in the middle of correcting this and we are in an intermediate state.  Will continue in the morning.

- Pablo and Michael, Pcal assembly work inside the "assembly" room in the LVEA.
- Apollo crew craned several items over XBM.
- Filiberto and Sheila, Removal of frequency discriminator at Y-End.
- Sheila, install frequency discriminator at Y-End.
- Michael R., is working on bringing the H1 PSL back, unknown cause as to why it failed, Michael is investigating now and trying to bring it back, as of now he continues to work inside the H1 PSL room.

Late yesterday I had a conversation about PCal crates with Rick: he is planning on sorting things with me Thursday-Friday of this week.

The "shortie" OpLev piers were moved to the VEA of X Mid. I spent a majority of the day working on documenting (drawings, ICS updates), marking and sealing these crates. Specific details below. I worked documentation and marking on the two Giraffes already at X Mid and started documentation of the leaners and the periscope.

Shortie OpLev Piers and Base Plates
3 x D1000452 + 3 x D1000434
2 x D1001301 + 4 x D1000434
3 x D1001854 + 3 x D1000434

In addition, I started to work documentation for baffles.

The out-of-loop PD for the PSL intensity stabilization (H1:PSL-ISS_PDA_OUT_DQ) was used to produce the fake strain channel during engineering run 3 in February. It was very clean overall, but there were a lot of low-frequency glitches. The glitches are all short and below about 55 Hz, and there seem to be more in the 10-25 Hz range. The glitches are every few seconds, not regular, but the rate was pretty much constant during the day. These glitches are still there in recent data. Robert Schofield told me that this frequency range isn't environmental but is likely to be electronic. The glitches are also seen in QPD_DX and QPD_DY.

If we can help diagnose this, don't hesitate to contact detchar@ligo.org and andrew.lundgren@ligo.org.

The attached plots are:
1. A typical day of ER3 as seen by Omicron (the replacement for the OmegaOnline web reports).
2. A similar plot for 5 minutes of recent (last weekend) data.
3. As above, but QPD_DX.
4. As above, but QPD_DY.
5. A selection of 2-second spectra, showing the instability.