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ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:47, Friday 25 April 2025 (84118)
OPS Day Shift Start

TITLE: 04/25 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: 1mph Gusts, 0mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.06 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.09 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is in PLANNED ENGINEERING for VENT

Some planned tasks for today:

Work safe!

LHO VE
janos.csizmazia@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:48, Friday 25 April 2025 - last comment - 08:20, Friday 25 April 2025(84117)
Wire seals finally tested with a positive result!
Jordan, Janos, 04-24-2025, ~15:00

The wire gaskets for VBO-C and VBO-D have been leaking continuously for a very long time. Lots of vendors have been contacted, and after a lot of unsuccessful tests, it seems that we finally found the good one manufactured by Torr Scientific (UK). This gasket is extremely annealed, butter-soft, needs super careful handling, but even after some suboptimal installation steps (mea culpa), it finally sealed a new chamber successfully.

We tested it right after receiving (had a thriller with customs) with a new C+B chamber, pumped it down and tested on the same day. After the test, we let the pump running during the weekend just to see the ultimate pressure it can reach.

They are still very pricey though, 193 GBP (= 257 USD)/pc., even in the case of purchasing 100 pcs., it's 147 GBP (= 196 USD)/pc. So, certainly not an optimal, long-term solution, but a good bridge between having nothing and manufacturing our own.
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jon.feicht@LIGO.ORG - 08:20, Friday 25 April 2025 (84119)
Good news! Let's take some detailed measurements (as possible), also how close they fit over the flange lip, etc. Will help us when we start fabrication in house. 
H1 ISC
camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:01, Thursday 24 April 2025 - last comment - 11:06, Monday 28 April 2025(84115)
Starting to repopulate HAM1 with ISC Components

Oli, Matt, Camilla 

We started to repopulate HAM1 with ISC components following the locations show in D1000313-v19
 
On the +X side, we placed: M14, HW1 (facing wrong direction), M17, M1, M7, M13, M10, M11, M12, BD4, BD5, BD6a, BD6b, BD7, BD17 (in different location due to masses), BD18, HiPWR BD (needs to be moved after ASC REFL beam profiling). Photos here and here
We could still place: L2 and M15 and flip the direction of HW1 (see Corey's original photo)
We want to wait to place: M16, the periscope, Beamdiverters, LSC POP diodes, BD1, BD2, as it will make alignment or beam profiling of the diodes tricky.  
 
On the -X side, we placed: M2, M6, L1, M18. Photo here
We could still place: M5 (once we are happy with RM1), the majority of the beamdumps, the SLED.
We want to wait to place: the ASC and LSC diodes until some beam profiling/ beam size measurements have been done.
 
The 4 optics that are still in pans (L2, M15, M16, M5) have all been moved to pan 2 (lower shelf) and the periscope is on the bottom shelf.
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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 22:22, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84116)
Late entry,
Jim and I worked the last few half days to lace up all of the cabling for SUS, SEI, and IO/ISC in prep for the main reinstall of table components. Fil, some Richard, and I did preliminary ground loop checks on all SUS and IO/ISC cables so we have a handle on the situation before complicating with components.

I routed cables on the table top in an attempt to be near where things plug in but also not in the way of landing objects. Further dressing and coiling will be needed after troubleshooting plugins with components as we go.
Pics of the pre round of cabling.
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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 15:20, Friday 25 April 2025 (84135)

Oli, Camilla 

This morning we swapped the direction of HW1 so that it is facing the same as before. We also placed L2, M15, LSC POP A and ASC POP X although the diodes are not cabled up yet. They can be next week as Daniel confirmed chassis are powered off. 

ASC POP X is new, the box is marked D1102004-v6 S/N 016 S1300637, ICS link. Have added this to the D1000313 BOM googledoc and HAM1 ICS assembly. 

corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 11:06, Monday 28 April 2025 (84148)EPO

Tagging with EPO to document the process.

LHO General
ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:42, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84114)
OPS Day Shift Summary

TITLE: 04/24 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is in PLANNED ENGINEERING for VENT

Productive day where most of the work was spent on HAM1 cabling, followed by RM1 install.

Of note:

LOG:

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
14:39 FAC Kim LVEA N Tech clean 15:52
14:39 FAC Nellie LVEA N Tech clean 15:52
15:45 VAC Jordan LVEA N Purge air checks 16:03
15:45 SUS Betsy LVEA N Cabling HAM1 18:59
15:52 FAC Nellie H2 N Tech clean 16:07
16:07 SUS Randy YARM N QUAD Moving 23:24
16:33 SUS Richard LVEA N Cabling/H.O.R.S.E. 17:03
16:50 SUS Mitchell EX, EY n FAMIS tasks 22:50
16:56 SUS Travis LVEA N Cabling 17:06
17:07 FAC Kim, Nellie MY, MX N Tech clean 18:51
17:53 VAC Jordan MX, MY N Emergency Pump Survey 18:38
17:53 VAC JaNos MX,MY N Emergency Pump Survey 18:37
18:23 ISC Camilla, Matt LVEA N Measuring viewport heights 18:54
18:39 PCAL Tony PCAL Lab N TSA to France + stickers 20:07
19:01 SUS Jim LVEA N Cabling 23:00
19:31 FIT Ryan C LVEA N Respiratory and Perspiratory Regulation Test (Walk) 20:04
19:56 ISC Matt, Rahul, Camilla, Oli LVEA n HAM1 ISC installation 23:23
19:59 VAC Jordan MY, MX N Turbo Pump Checks 22:50
20:00 SUS Betsy LVEA, Opt Lab N Walkabout + Feed Through Cable Work 21:56
20:03 VAC Travis Opt Lab N Feedthru Cable Work after turning compressor off 22:48
20:19 VAC Janos LVEA N VAC checks 20:28
20:41 CDS Fil, Dave FCES N HAM8 Post Outage Glitch 22:59
21:07 VAC Vacuum Convoy YARM N Beam Tube Experiment Walkabout 21:56
21:49 PCAL Tony PCAL N Measurements and general lab affairs 22:22
22:59 EE Fil HAM1 N helping Rahul 23:24
23:24 SUS Betsy. Fil, Rahul, Daniel LVEA N RM1 Things 23:40
LHO VE
jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:36, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84113)
Quarterly Functionality Test Performed on EY/MY Turbo Pumps

FAMIS tasks 31278 and 31286, WP 12486

Procedure checklist for both stations completed.  No issues were identified at this time.

MY: Scroll pump hours: 87.7

       Turbo pump hours: 224

       Crash bearings: 100%

EY: Scroll pump hours: 86.7

       Turbo pump hours: 1293

       Crash bearings: 100%

 
 
 
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:58, Thursday 24 April 2025 - last comment - 15:28, Thursday 24 April 2025(84111)
RM1 suspension caused HAM1 software watchdog trip, bypassed now

Ibrahim, Dave:

RM1 exceeded its RMS motion limit, and 5 minutes later the HAM1 DACs were DACKILLed, stopping all h1isiham1 and h1hpiham1 drives.

We have bypassed RM1 and SEI-HAM1 watchdogs indefinitely for now.

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 15:28, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84112)

RM2 started ringing up, so I've bypassed everything for HAM1 now.

LHO VE
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:55, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84108)
Thu CP1 Fill

Thu Apr 24 10:07:42 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 7min 39secs

Gerardo confirmed a good fill curbside.

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H1 ISC
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:14, Thursday 24 April 2025 - last comment - 13:48, Thursday 24 April 2025(84089)
SRM to OMC mode matching desgin and as built comparison

Jennie Wright, Sheila, Keita, Camilla

Jennie has been working on modeling of our arm to OMC mode matching, and while she was looking for some distances we noticed a discrepancy between the as built numbers and the mode matching design.  It seems possible that there was a mix up, where design documents call for a distance of 97cm between the OMC waist and OM2, and the as built distance is 97 cm between the OMC input coupler and OM2 (so,  the OMC seems to be translated by 14 cm from where the mode matching design expected it to be).  If we have the q parameter used in the design (ROC matched to SRM, beam size there is 2.1mm), this would introduce a 1% mismatch between the OMC mode and the SRC mode (the impact could be larger for a different q parameter).   Note that the analysis done in 71145 was using the design distances, so we will want to revisit that.  I've attached an a la mode script below.

Editing to add more information:

I initially did this with the design ROC for OM2, which is 1.7meters, which is also what is in Finesse.  This results in an overlap for the design locations of 99.95% and 99% for the as built locations, with the as built waist location 12cm from the OMC waist location (there are differences in the other distances that partially cancel the 14cm difference between OMC input coupler and OMC waist location), and a waist size of 545um compared to the OMC eigenmode of 509um. In 71145 Keita says that the OM2 ROC is 2m cold and 1.75m hot. 

If we change the OM2 curvature for the as built path to 2 meters, the overlap becomes 93.8%, and the waist location becomes 14.3cm from the OMC waist location, with a waist size of 649um.  Using the hot ROC of 1.75m, the overlap becomes 98.5% and the waist is 563um 11.5cm from the OMC waist.  So, if our q parameter was the design one at SRM, the error in OM2 curvature would be compounding the error in the OMC placement to make the mode matching worse.  The single bounce measurements agree that the mode matching is worse with OM2 cold than hot, but the full IFO measurements are the opposite.

Summarizing distances:

T1000317:

T1200410 says we should have:

.yaml file, which is based on E2100383:

Camilla looking at edrawings (which agree with photos):

To compare the solid works to the photos we looked at D0901822 and compared it to OM3 photo and this photo of OM2 when it was a tip tilt. 

Using the beam q from table 1 of T1200410 for just after SRM, and propagating it through the distances from T1000317, gives an overlap with the OMC waist of 99.96%.  Adjusting the SRM to OM1 distance to agree with T1200410 gives 99.95%, so that difference between the two design documents isn't significant. 

 

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 13:48, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84110)

Here's a version of the script that I used to make the plot above.  a la mode is a matlab beam propagation and mode matching code written by Nic Smith that is available here.  If you download that in the control room it will give some errors, I have a copy of the directory I use in matlab2019a in the control room here

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LHO VE
jordan.vanosky@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:48, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84107)
Morning Purge Air Checks 4-24-25

Morning dry air skid checks, water pump, kobelco, drying towers all nominal.

Dew point measurement at HAM1 , approx. -42C

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H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:19, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84104)
New DAQ Detail MEDM

As part of installing a third DAQ framewriter I have written python code to generate a new DAQ Detail MEDM. It is launched by the DETAIL button on the CDS Overview (see attached).

Note that while FW2 is being tested its entry is a placeholder. When FW2 is put into production, the frames from all three framewriters will be checked to ensure they are identical.

The only difference between the old and new MEDM is that the new shows when the framewriters are actively writing their frame files to disk (the BUSY flag).

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H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:56, Thursday 24 April 2025 - last comment - 08:54, Thursday 24 April 2025(84103)
Long range IPC receive errors

At 17:40:57 Wed 23apr2025 PDT (GPS 1429490475) some corner station long-range-dolphin IPC receivers got a single receive error from h1susetmx and h1susetmy senders. This is one error in the 16384 packets received in that second.

The 6 receivers in h1oaf and h1calcs are the only receivers of the h1sus[etmx,etmy] senders but they are not the only receivers of channels being sent from h1sus[ex,ey] frontends (h1sus[etmx,etmy]pi sends to h1omcpi). Nor are they the only receivers of signals coming from the end stations; h1lsc and h1asc receive channels from h1isc[ex,ey].

Because these receive errors were at the same time and symetrical between the two end stations, a glitch in the cdsrfm system is suspected.

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 08:54, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84106)

I have added this event to FRS32032, this is a generic end-station senders, CS receivers ticket now.

LHO General
ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:35, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84102)
OPS Day Shift Start

TITLE: 04/24 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: 3mph Gusts, 1mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.10 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

IFO is in PLANNED ENGINEERING for the VENT

Today's planned activities:

Work safe!

LHO FMCS
christopher.soike@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:14, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84101)
End Station AHU pre-filter swap out
All 8 pre-filters were swapped out at End-Y AHU-1. Of the 2 Supply Fans, SF-1 was running. The 8 pre-filters on the other side (SF-2) where it wasn't pulling air were still in great condition and left alone. 
Also, all 8 pre-filters were swapped out at End-X AHU-1. Same situation as E-Y. AHU-2 side was not swapped out. The pre-filters still looked near brand new.
Another note worth mentioning is that of the 16 pre-filters that were replaced, the filtration level of each was MERV-12 or MERV-11. They were replaced with 16 new pre-filters that are all MERV-11. This will likely slightly increase the air volume flowing through the unit. 
LHO VE
janos.csizmazia@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:12, Wednesday 23 April 2025 (84099)
2025 April vent - VAC diary
4-22 (Tuesday) activities:

- After reaching ~1.3E-6 Torr at the corner, GV2 was opened (the corner was valved together with the X-manifold), that brought down the pressure to ~9E-7 Torr in ~2 hours
- The aux carts from GV5, BSC8, and HAM4 have been detached, 2 of them have been staged at HAM1/HAM2 as a preparation for the pumpdown of the annulus volume

4-23 (Wednesday) activities:

- The stiffening frame for the 1000 amu RGA is being built
- The filter elements were replaced in the EX clean air supply, and it is now running for 24 hours, with a vent valve open in the VEA
H1 General
richard.savage@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:54, Tuesday 22 April 2025 - last comment - 07:00, Thursday 24 April 2025(84073)
Ladder section along X-arm access road between mid- and end-station

There is a ladder section along the X-arm access road between the mid- and end-stations.

The second attached photo was taken looking toward the mid-station from the direction of the end-station.

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christopher.soike@LIGO.ORG - 07:00, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84100)
Thank you Rick. Facilities is aware of the ladder. It was there for easier access during "Tumblegeddon" a couple years back. It got buried at some point during that time. I just recently found it again while tumbleweed mulching recently. We will do something with it ASAP. Thank you for the reminder.
H1 SUS (SEI, SUS)
edgard.bonilla@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:20, Monday 21 April 2025 - last comment - 08:39, Thursday 24 April 2025(84041)
SR3 OSEM estimator preliminary fits

Edgard, Brian.

Following up on the fits for the SR3 estimator. I ran the plotall scripts on the transfer functions we took last Friday [see 84003]. Then ran the attached code to fit the transfer functions.

Figure 1 shows the ISI-M1 fitted transfer function. The Q-factors for the fit were tweaked by hand so I could get a decent fit. The exported M1 to M1 transfer function is shown in the second attachment. I decided it should have the same poles as the ISI one, and the gain was fit so the estimator matches the high-frequency behavior of the measured transfer function. The choice to share poles is because the math indicates that it will lead to some potential modeling errors cancelling out.

The pole information for the two filters is:

         Pole              Damping       Frequency      Time Constant  
                                       (rad/seconds)      (seconds)    
                                                                       
 -4.38e-02 + 6.38e+00i     6.86e-03       6.38e+00         2.28e+01    
 -4.38e-02 - 6.38e+00i     6.86e-03       6.38e+00         2.28e+01    
 -7.64e-02 + 1.44e+01i     5.30e-03       1.44e+01         1.31e+01    
 -7.64e-02 - 1.44e+01i     5.30e-03       1.44e+01         1.31e+01    
 -2.97e-02 + 2.13e+01i     1.39e-03       2.13e+01         3.37e+01    
 -2.97e-02 - 2.13e+01i     1.39e-03       2.13e+01         3.37e+01

And the zpk strings (in MATLAB format) are:

ISI to M1:

zpk([-0.068+20.398i,-0.068-20.398i,-0.099+11.454i,-0.099-11.454i,0,0],[-0.03+21.271i,-0.03-21.271i,-0.076+14.435i,-0.076-14.435i,-0.044+6.384i,-0.044-6.384i],-0.75)'

M1 to M1:

zpk([4745.079,-0.089+8.28i,-0.089-8.28i,-0.113+19.058i,-0.113-19.058i],[-0.03+21.271i,-0.03-21.271i,-0.076+14.435i,-0.076-14.435i,-0.044+6.384i,-0.044-6.384i],-0.015)

 

I did the fits by using the spectrumest function in MATLAB (which is sadly not available in 2019a). The long term plan is to switch to one of the many python fitting tools that people like for the fits. The code is attached to this logpost for bookkeeping

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edgard.bonilla@LIGO.ORG - 15:23, Wednesday 23 April 2025 (84093)

I added a script to

... SusSVN/sus/trunk/HLTS/Common/FilterDesign/Estimator/

that uses autoquack to add the fits to the Foton file for H1 SR3.

The script is named

make_SR3_yaw_model.m

and it uses the fits mentioned in the logpost above, which are contained in the same folder, as

fits_H1SR3_2025-04-21.mat

The changes are current to the sus svn under revision 12277.

oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 16:36, Wednesday 23 April 2025 (84096)

These filters have been loaded into the SR3_M1_YAW_EST_MODL_SUSP_Y_2GAP and SR3_M1_YAW_EST_MODL_DRV_Y_2GAP.

Attached are the plots that came up when I ran the matlab script that loaded them in, along with the log message that was created and the coeff diffs.

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edgard.bonilla@LIGO.ORG - 17:51, Wednesday 23 April 2025 (84098)

Small modification that will not affect the estimator test, so it is here for bookeeping.
I didn't clean up the zpk for the M1 to M1 transfer function, so it has a high frequency zero that is due to floating point errors in my fit.

the real zpks should be:

ST1 to M1

    'zpk([-0.068+20.398i,-0.068-20.398i,-0.099+11.454i,-0.099-11.454i,0,0],[-0.03+21.271i,-0.03-21.271i,-0.076+14.435i,-0.076-14.435i,-0.044+6.384i,-0.044-6.384i],-0.75)'

and M1 to M1

    'zpk([-0.089+8.28i,-0.089-8.28i,-0.113+19.058i,-0.113-19.058i],[-0.03+21.271i,-0.03-21.271i,-0.076+14.435i,-0.076-14.435i,-0.044+6.384i,-0.044-6.384i],71.17)'

I have uploaded the correct ones to the HLTS/Common/FilterDesign/Estimator with today's date (2025-04-23), svn revision 12279.

 

oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 08:39, Thursday 24 April 2025 (84105)

That filter change has been loaded in

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