TITLE: 10/08 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:

- 18:23 - inc 5.9 EQ from Papua New Guinea

• 18:51 - EQ mode activated, back to CALM @ 19:22
• 21:20 - inc 4.9 EQ from Japan, back to CALM @ 22:12

- Other than the EQs, it was a quiet shift otherwise. All systems stable.

LOG:

No log for this shift.

H1 is still locked and in observing mode (11 hour lock stretch). Other than an EQ passing by from Papua New Guinea, it has been a quiet morning so far.

Sun Oct 08 10:10:31 2023 INFO: Fill completed in 10min 27secs

TITLE: 10/08 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 4mph Gusts, 2mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.19 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

- H1 is locked and observing - 7 hours for this stretch

- SEI/CDS ok

- Had DM alerts for DM 6, 10, and PSL 102, will monitor as the day progresses

TITLE: 10/07 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY:

One lockloss toward the middle of the shift.  As well as an unlocking TCSx laser for that lock.  Currently Observing (after taking two attempts to get to NLN in the latter part of the shift).
LOG:

• 0025 Bumped out of Observing due to TCSx laser unlocking
• 0231 Lockloss
  • Needed to run CHECK MICH FRINGES & locked PRMI on its own after.
  • 0334Lockloss at Tranisition to ETMx
  • 0446 Back to OBSERVING

13.5hr lock just ended with a lockloss (and also had an OBSERVING drop due to TCSx laser earlier).  Currently waiting for H1 to get back up to NLN.

Identical drop from OBSERVING due to unlocked TCSx laser which happened on Sept 15 (alog #72908).

Here are the notables:

• Initial notice via LOG:  2023-10-08_00:25:00.266343Z TCS_ITMX_CO2 [LASER_UP.run] laser unlocked. jumping to find new locking point
• Obtained via this in a terminal:  "guardctrl log -a "10/08/2023 00:25 UTC" -b "10/08/2023 00:27 UTC" TCS_ITMX_CO2"
• TCS_ITMX_CO2 guardian node was back to nominal within 71sec (00:25:00-00:26:11utc).
• Taken back to OBSERVING shortly thereafter.

TITLE: 10/07 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: CALM
    Wind: 7mph Gusts, 5mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.32 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

H1's been locked for just over 10hrs.  (Wow--interesting to see seismis noise ever since I left last night!  Lots of earthquakes around the globe which made for a rough overnight!)  Quick scan of the Control Room and everything looks good right now.

TITLE: 10/07 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 145Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:

- 16:38 - inc 5.7 EQ from Papua New Guinea

• 17:09 -  EQ mode activated, back to CALM @ 17:19

- EX saturations @ 18:27/20:28/20:57/21:31

- Seems like H1 started reading back "No Data" on gwistat, this occurred sometime between 20:00 - 21:00 UTC, according to the gwistat bot (H1 was locked and in observing mode during this time) - Tagging DetChar

• gwistat is now reading back as "Observing" as of ~22:25 UTC

LOG:

No log for this shift.

H1 is still in observing, just reached a 6 hour lock. Other than a couple small EQs, it has been a quiet shift thus far.

Sat Oct 07 10:11:42 2023 INFO: Fill completed in 11min 38secs

[original post: SEI 2293]

tl;dr

• I updated the picket fence script to use the backup NEIC server while they do their server migration [see the comments in LHO aLog 73302]. The. IP address for the backup server is "137.227.252.145".
• I also added a script that can be called to plot the picket fence using the EPICS variables as per Jim's request. It should work like:
  python plot_fence_from_EPICS.py --ifo_name "LHO"  . Hopefully this will help it get integrated into the MEDM displays.

To get the update, git pull at the picket fence folder. Also, don't forget to install cartopy so the picket map scripts work.

TITLE: 10/07 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 147Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: SEISMON_ALERT
    Wind: 4mph Gusts, 3mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.33 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

- H1 is locked and observing - just hit 2 hours

- Following a night of EQs, things seemed to have calmed down

- CDS ok

- Dust monitor alerts for LVEA 6 (HAM 6) and 10 (BSC1), will monitor as the day progresses

TITLE: 10/06 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 150Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Quiet shift up until H1 lost lock after 30hrs.  H1 took a bit of time to come back even through a Guatamalan EQ (which was not the reason for the lockloss, just an added impediment to relocking).  Ultimately took H1 to Initial Alignment and after this H1 has been swiftly making it's way to NLN w/ no issues.  
NOTE: Just before the end of the shift a M6.2 EQ from Afghanistan was inbound! :-/
LOG:

• before start of this shift - 2310:  VAC team grabbing items at FCES (jordan, gerardo)
• 0454 Lockloss (after just over 30hrs of lock) 
  • Tried to speed things up by going to Green Arms Manual (not sure if this was any faster)
  • For some reason ISC LOCK ran check mich fringes a 2nd time after doing it once...PRMI looked bad---all pitch for the PRM, but it went to check mich fringes before I could do anything w/ PRM....and then....
  • 0522 M5.9 earthquake from guatamala arrives.
  • Return to locking almost immediately, but have the same issue of ISCLOCK going to CHECK MICH FRINGES multiple times in a row (and not giving me any time to try to tweak the PRM).  At this point, I take H1 down and run an INTIAL ALIGNMENT.
  • 0554-0621 Initial Alignment
  • 0621 Return to locking an aligned H1---Green arms good, DRMI good, and now continuing through later states.
• 0629 LVEA6 300nm dust alarm it's 210similar counts (EX 300nm dust also reaches), but slowly drop a few minutes later.
• 0659 EQ Mode activated (as M6.2 Afghanistan EQ shakes the earth)---while ISC LOCK was at TRANSITION FROM ETMX

Smooth shift with H1 locked 28.5hrs with a range between 140-146Mpc.

All looks well for the last week for all site HVAC fans (see attached).

TITLE: 10/06 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 151Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY: We've been Locked for over 24hours now and have had a calm day with just some ring heater tests.
LOG:

15:00UTC Detector in Observing and has been Locked for 16hours
    - Dustmon for LVEA6 and LVEA10 were going off

17:14-17:15 Went out of Observing briefly to change ring heater settings (73308)

20:16 - 20:17 Went out of Observing briefly to change ring heater settings back (see previous alog)                                

The past two weeks Camilla has run multiple tests on the ring heaters (73093, 73272, 73289 , 73308), so I updated mag_phase_plotter.py and used it to compare these tests.

It is now easier to add/compare different tests+times with mag_phase_plotter_v1.1.py and the txt file it references, mag_phase_plotter_inputs.txt. Both are currently found in /ligo/gitcommon/labutils/mag_phase_plotter.

Note: We had to replace the LSC-POPAIR channels so we replaced them with LSC-POP_A_RF{9,45} channels for now, and it looks like RF45 is not useful for us when looking at the ring heaters. This will be changed out as soon as we find a better channel.

Comparisons(pdf):