Here's the analyzed data for the QOSEM transfer functions, as well as a comparison of transfer functions between the BOSEMs and the QOSEMs for the BBSS on the test stand. They're pretty similar.
I didn't modify the analysis script yet since we are currently only using the X of the QOSEMs, so I just exported the M1_OSEMINF_{F1,F2,F3,LF,RT,SD}_X_OUT_DQ channels in theplace of the M1_OSEMINF_{F1,F2,F3,LF,RT,SD}_OUT_DQ channels.
Data
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/BBSS/H1/BS/SAGM1/Data/2026-06-01_1700_tfs/2026-06-01_1700_H1SUSBS_M1_WhiteNoise_R_0p02to50Hz.xml
r13024
Results
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/BBSS/H1/BS/SAGM1/Results/2026-06-01_1700_tfs/2026-06-01_1700_H1SUSBS_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r13024
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/BBSS/Common/Results/allbbss_BBSS_teststand_BOSEMsvsQOSEMs/allbbsss_BBSS_teststand_BOSEMsvsQOSEMs_ALL_TFs.pdf
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/BBSS/Common/Results/allbbss_BBSS_teststand_BOSEMsvsQOSEMs/allbbsss_BBSS_teststand_BOSEMsvsQOSEMs_ALL_ZOOMED_TFs.pdf
r13025
Patrick T., Filiberto C., Richard M., Dave B., Jonathan H., Jim W. WP 13262. The summary of the work is detailed in the permit. There were some additional code changes needed to fix a scaling issue and some others made to clean things up. The only thing that should be left is to restart the DAQ to remove three channels. IOC code: https://git.ligo.org/cds/software/ads/ads-utils 9b98c481d6f9ab129fa4bc54475e05383d304aa2 https://git.ligo.org/cds/software/ads/epics7-ads c72c97eb4d1558d9de5c03234e90c8c651aab99b (in container), 9e5a10a014beeb0cb7b021649c459a0fa0488be7 (used to generated EPICS db) PLC code: https://git.ligo.org/cds/ifo/beckhoff/io 65f59557c1fefc90f4befc9338bd29a1fb27d8e0 https://git.ligo.org/cds/ifo/beckhoff/lho-hepi 3fd31d58fafc08e4d5a84dce1d0d57dfd8b6b74e
Shoshana, Alexandra, Jim, Arnaud, Fil
Yesterday's activity log:
| Nominal | New Fork (D2300094-v4) | New Fork + D230099 type2 (4g vs 2g type 1) | |
| Z | +186um | +189.8um | +229.2um |
| X | -2.4um | -3.75um | -3.75um |
The monitor channels in the CRS pre-amp D2500390 are connected up incorrectly. The following table details the current connections: HoQI/TEST POINT CONNECTION - MON CHANNEL CONNECTION HA PDS - HD PDS HA PDC - HA PDC HA PDMC - HD PDMC HB PDS - HC PDS HB PDC - HB PDC HB PDMC - HC PDMC HC PDS - HB PDS HC PDC - HC PDC HC PDMC - HB PDMC HD PDS - HA PDS HD PDC - HD PDC HD PDMC - HA PDMC
TITLE: 06/04 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: 8mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.13 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
BSC2 cartridge will be flying back in after lunch today! The LVEA will be going to LASER SAFE soon but is currently still LASER HAZARD
(Jordan V., Gerardo M.)
We have noticed that the dew point at the dryer towers has been increasing since opening to HAM7 and or related to power glitch last Saturday, we are still looking into it.
We have had a constant dew point at the dryer towers of -72 oC, and now we are at -57 oC, because of those numbers we ran a short test, once work was finished for the day in-chamber, we stopped the purge air to the LVEA to see what the effect was on the drying tower's dew point, it changed but very slow, we started at -57 oC and after 20 minutes we ended up at -59 oC, and we noted that the right tower may be in trouble since the dew point did not improved while this tower "works", the dew point instead went up by the one degree, erasing the improvement of the left tower. We will look more into it.
To complete the test we took a dew point measurement at the point of use in the LVEA, and we got a -40.7oC, getting close to a bad dew point, and remember this is while no in-chamber work is going on, so please mind those C3 soft covers on chamber doors, thank you.
Today I power cycled the dryer towers for the purge air system, I did this to shut it off in a controlled manner instead of a power glitch/outage, like the ones from last Saturday, see entry here, and then restarted the unit back up, the dew point at the dryer towers improved by 4 degrees.
Also, I took a couple of dew point measurements at different places:
In conclusion, despite the great demand of purge air, the dew point still is good, but please don't waste it, if you can please keep those C3 door covers closed. Thank you!
A. Effler, R. Schofield, R. Short
All of the new SLiC baffles have been installed on both ITMX and ITMY (both the test mass and compensation plate sides), but the CP side of ITMX still will need some alignment positioning touched up. Earthquake stop brackets on the test mass faces for both quads were also swapped out to accommodate for the new baffles.
One person always remained near the open door in BSC1 while others were around the corner working in BSC3, and oxygen monitors were worn out of an abundance of caution.
[Nathan Holland, Jenne Driggers]
DC to 30 mHz BLRMS have been working as of 2022 - see LIGO-T2200025. These can be added to the BLRMS monitoring screen, and hopefully will be useful. They may need appropriate calibration. See attachment 1 for an example.
Historically the DC to 30mHz BLRMS did not work - they would diverge to +/- infinity after some time. This was corrected as of 2022, see LIGO-T2200025, by changing the C code in the RTCDS. This RTCDS change was approved in ECR LIGO-E2200027 and has been active for some time. One example of the relevant channels is H1:PEM-CS_SEIS_LVEA_VERTEX_X_BLRMS_0MHZ30, e.g. for the DC to 30 mHz seismic BLRMS at the LVEA along the x direction. Attachment 1 shows a 5 minute trace of the second trends for this channel.
Possibly this has been discussed in the past at the Friday SEI meetings, and no use yet, has been found for this BLRMS band. It may be interesting to properly calibrate these channels, place them on the monitoring screens, and then see if they are of use.
Sheila, Begum, Ryosuke, Camilla
Sheila checked that FC1 is now working as expected but was not in May 90462.
Started the morning by setting FC1 to the FC REFL iris ZM1,2,3 sliders set to 90183 (when Sheila had the beam on SQZT7), we then set irises after ZM1 and ZM3. Doing this clipped the return beam on B:L1 aperture, this is expected as we could not get the return beam through the OPO when FC was aligned in Feb. Later we realized that this doesn't make scene, so set ZM1,2,3 sliders set to when we had good FC flashes in 89694 and then FC1 was moved to get the beam centered on the FC REFL iris, again this clipped the return beam on B:L1 aperture but the beam was considerably higher at the ZM3 iris than when we originally set it. Around or a little higher than 6.25". Tomorrow we will fully think this though and compare to O4 times.
We locked the OPO SUS iteratively looking at the beams off the OPO. It was finally lock with the FC REFL beam getting to the second iris but not centered and when we changed the alignment to the IR SQZT7 alignment, the beam made it through both irises when closed.
Sheila, Begum, Ryosuke then took beam profiles of the beam after ZM1 and ZM2 with the borrowed Phasics camera.
From 60068: If the beam coming out of VOPO is level with ISI surface, it's nominally 5.532" high, the beam travels up from ZM2 toward ZM3 to raise the beam height by 0.756".
So the beam would be 6.288" at ZM3 and FC1. This matches with our beam height measured yesterday at the ZM3 iris.
As the OPO has been locked in the same alignment is it's free hanging alignment, when the sliders are at ZM4 (P: -453.4, Y: -1275.0) and ZM5 (P: -258.0, Y: -761.0) as attached screenshot, when the beam is centered on the ZM4 iris the alignment can be recovered to the SQZT7 and the IR path irises.
WP 13292
BSC2 Flange Layout - D1003079
Part of the BBS upgrade required moving the SUS BS field electronics from the SUS-R6 rack to the SUS-R2 rack. A new set of field cables were pulled from SUS-R2 to BSC2 flange E3 per D1003079. The old cables at the flange were disconnected and labeled as spares to avoid confusion. Access to the flange is limited as we now have the platform and dial indicators that limit access to the flange. The dial indicators were bumped. SEI team was notified.
TITLE: 06/03 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: HAM2 and HAM7 laser hazard work continued, the ITMY baffles installation progressed, and the SPI electronics are being staged into the LVEA. The cartridge is planned to be flown back into chamber tomorrow.
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:09 | SAF | LASER HAZARD | LVEA | Y | The LVEA is LASER HAZARD | 02:09 |
| 13:40 | FAC | Kim | LVEA | y | Tech clean | 14:34 |
| 15:04 | FAC | Kim | LVEA | Y | Tech Clean | 16:37 |
| 15:43 | PSL | Jennie | LVEA | Y | Open light pipe | 15:49 |
| 16:07 | ISC | Rahul, Keita, Ryosuke | LVEA | Y | HAM2 work, RM2 investigation // alignment | 17:31 |
| 16:14 | SQZ | Camilla, Begum | LVEA | Y | HAM7 work | 19:05 |
| 16:19 | ISC | Disha | LVEA | Y | Join HAM2 crew | 17:31 |
| 16:23 | SLiC | Robert, Anamaria | LVEA | Y | BSC in chamber cage baffle work | 19:53 |
| 16:24 | VAC | Gerardo, Jordan, Tyler | MidY | N | LN2 tank inspection | 17:50 |
| 16:40 | SLiC | RyanS | LVEA | Y | BSC cage baffle work | 19:53 |
| 17:09 | SPI | Jeff, Sina | Optics lab | LOCAL -> SAFE | SPI work, hand off analog electronics to EE | 19:48 |
| 17:13 | SUS | Ibrahim | LVEA | Y | BBS eliptical baffles | 18:54 |
| 17:13 | FAC | Kim | LVEA | Y | Tech clean | 17:51 |
| 17:17 | SUS | Betsy, Randy | LVEA | Y | Scope out HAM3 area, Randy out 17:35 | 17:43 |
| 17:28 | EE | Josh, Marc | LVEA | Y | Install SPI electronics by HAM3, Marc out 18:03 | 18:14 |
| 17:28 | SQZ | Sheila, Ryosuke | LVEA | Y | Join HAM7 work | 19:05 |
| 17:35 | FAC | Randy | EndY | N | Get some CR curtains | 18:08 |
| 17:40 | SUS | Thomas | LVEA | Y | Join BBS baffle work | 18:26 |
| 17:50 | SUS | Oli | LVEA | Y | Join BBS baffling | 18:54 |
| 17:51 | FAC | Kim | MidX | N | Tech clean | 18:50 |
| 18:05 | SUS | Betsy | LVEA | Y | Talk to BBS crew | 18:26 |
| 18:11 | EE | Fil, Marc | LVEA | Y | BBS cabling by HAM3 | 19:08 |
| 18:15 | SEI | Shoshana | LVEA/H2 PSL | Y | CRS work | 19:28 |
| 18:35 | ISC | Rahul, Keita, Disha | LVEA | Y | HAM2 work | 19:13 |
| 20:20 | SEI | Jeff, Sina | LVEA | Y | R2 electronics rack work for SPI near HAM3 | 22:46 |
| 20:21 | ISC | Rahul, Keita, Disha | LVEA | Y | HAM2 work | Ongoing |
| 20:22 | EE | Richard, FIl | LVEA, H2 enc | Y | H2 enclosure investigation | 20:59 |
| 20:27 | SUS | Betsy, Arnaud | LVEA | Y | Look at HAM3 | 20:59 |
| 20:32 | SEI | Josh | LVEA | Y | Join SPI work | 23:28 |
| 20:42 | SQZ | Sheila, Begum, Ryosuke | LVEA | Y | HAM7 work, Sheila out 23:00 | Ongoing |
| 21:03 | SEI | Shoshana, Jim, Arnaud, Alexandra | LVEA H2 enc | Y | CRS work | Ongoing |
| 20:45 | SEI | Jim | LVEA | Y | Talk to Betsy | 21:05 |
| 21:20 | SUS | Ibrahim, Oli, Thomas, Madi | LVEA | Y | Lock down BBS, Madi out 23:18 | Ongoing |
| 21:21 | ISC | Jennie | LVEA | Y | Help HAM2 crew find tool | 21:25 |
| 21:33 | SLiC | Anamaria, RyanS, Robert | LVEA | Y | BSC in-chamber baffle work | Ongoing |
| 21:49 | ISC | Jennie | Optics lab | N | Grab tool | 22:09 |
| 22:01 | ISC | Camilla | Optics lab | N | Look for class B ruler then bring to HAM2 if found | 22:16 |
| 22:22 | SUS | RyanC | LVEA | Y | Bring small class B ruler to HAM2 | 22:25 |
| 22:42 | SUS | Betsy | LVEA | Y | Join BBS crew | 23:04 |
| 22:46 | SQZ | Camilla | LVEA | Y | HAM7 SQZ work | Ongoing |
| 23:19 | EE | Fil, Jake | LVEA | Y | Check out door lock H2 enc | 23:39 |
| 23:21 | VAC | Jordan | LVEA | Y | Grab leak detector | 23:29 |
| 23:27 | SAR | Jennie | Optics lab, LVEA | N, Y | Cell phone search and rescue | 23:34 |
Before locking down the ITM suspensions as part of the new baffle installations, we measured the positions of each test mass and compensation plate (CP) from the outer bevel to the inner cage:
EDIT: clarifying that "left" and "right" here refer to when looking at the face of either the test mass or CP, so left and right flip when going between TM and CP on the same suspension.
ITMY
Compensation Plate -
Test Mass -
ITMX
Compensation Plate -
Test Mass -
See attached photots for Anamaria's sketches of nominal positions and how they relate to the baffles.
For reference I got these numbers from the following e-drawing files:
HR cage baffles: DCC D2500081 FULL ASSEMBLY D2500081 A+, SLIC, QUAD SUS CAGE BAFFLE ASSY2.easm
CP cage baffles: DCC D2600035 D2600035 A+ SLIC CP SUS CAGE BAFFLE ASSY-15deg review2.EASM
For the keen eye you'll notice that the CP optic and the tests mass are not at the same height when in reality they should be. Because the CP optic isn't quite well aligned to the cage in this drawing in an IAS sense, it's ok because the baffle IS well aligned to the optic so the relative numbers we would use to align are, well, relative and hold true.
Jennie W
Summary: JAC WFS A and B readout has been phased.
I used Sheila's tremplate for the IMC WFS phasing (see Daniel's alog #89457 here when the IMC WFS was rephased in March) to make one for JAC WFS phasing. Since the length control is all done through CDS and does not use a common mode board the actuation channel to use is H1:JAC-L_SERVO_EXC.
The template is saved in userapps/h1/ioo/templates/dtt/JAC_wfs_phase.xml
New values were saved in the h1ascimc safe.snap.
Here is a photo of the WFS 'Settings' screens with the value to change highlighted in red and the Q and I error points highlighted in green. When running the template a line is injected into the JAC lenght control loop at 8 Hz. To phase the readout of the WFS segments, change the red-highlighted phases to minimise the line you inject in the Q error point channels, H1:JAC-WFS_{A,B}_{Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4)_ERR_DQ
Just realised WFS B wasn't very well aligned today. It's probably because the alignment has been changed into the JAC since the last time I aligned the JAC WFS on the IOT1 table (early May). Will redo the WFS B phasing Thursday with good alignment.
Last Friday, HAM7 was vented and the mega cleanroom was on, but chamber doors were on, FC1 sliders were at 100 urad P, -162 urad Yaw, and the M3 witness sensors were -90 urad pitch, -15 urad. Since then, there was a power outage, the chamber doors are off and the purge air is on, and tha DAC has been changed as it was not working 90454. Now, with the same slider settings (100 urad P, -162 yaw), M3 withness sensors are at 24 urad pitch, -204 urad yaw.
In 89751, Oli noted that turning on the purge air caused a shift of -29urad in the bottom mass osems. If purge air were the only difference between now and Friday, we would expect M3 witness osems to say -120 urad, if the purge air is similar to what it was in December. So, it seems like the electronics change has changed the realtionship between the slider value and the witness sensor.
On May 7th, we moved the pitch alignment slider by 140 urad, and the M3 witness only saw a move of 10 urad. Today, when we move the slider by 262 urad, the M3 witness osems see a shift of 317urad, so the suspension is actuating now, but seems not to have been in May.
Between 7th April and 7th May, and a period around the end of February, the DAC outputs were noisy, before and after this, they are not. I'm not sure what this is, plot attached.
Below is comparing today with Dec 9th 08:30 UTC (when CR was on temp ~71degF, HAM7 vented and doors removed). This shows the sliders are agreeing with what we have seen in the past.
| Temp | Pitch | Yaw | |||
| Slider | M3 WIT | Slider | M3 WIT | ||
| Dec 9th 08:30 UTC | 71degF | 231 | 181* | -153 | -201 |
| Now, June 3rd 21:45 UTC | 71.3degF | 231 | 176 | -153 | -202 |
* drifted down to 162 over next week
As part of WP 13284, the unused 8" gate valve on the X-beam manifold section was removed and the port was blanked off. We will need to remember to leak check this flange during pumpdown.