TITLE: 09/29 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 155Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 9mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.42 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Got called at 11:50 after PRMI locking failed for the second time. As I was prepping to move some mirrors to try and lock PRMI (initial alignment was done), PRMI locked and then DRMI.
IFO just needed some threat by opservation.
Watched guardian go into NLN as of 07:14 UTC and now OBSERVING.
Reset myself as OWL.
TITLE: 09/29 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 151Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: Locked for 5 hours. The relock had an odd SRM M3 Wd trip during DRMI acquisition, but once untriped it went through Mich Bright, then PRMI, then it got DRMI.
LOG:
Looks like when one of the triggers for SRCL turned on, it tripped M3 a handful of seconds later. Another odd thing I'm seeing after I've untripped and tried PRMI is that the triggering seems to be turning on and off rapidly.
Nothing obvious.
Back to Observing at 0005 UTC. After I cycled through MICH Bright, PRMI, then DRMI caught and it went back up. Not sure why SRM tripped.
TITLE: 09/28 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 154Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: TJ
SHIFT SUMMARY: Quiet shift, we stayed locked the entire time.
LOG: N/A
The LSC front end has an FPU (floating point unit) error. The recent range drop post glitch looks to line up with a ~50 SNR low frequency glitch as seen on the Omicron plot on nuc27, and 2.5 hours ago there's some extra noise in the low frequency SQZ blrms. The recent glitch look to be from =< 450Hz, as it's seen only in BAND_1-5.
TITLE: 09/28 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 156Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 9mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.39 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: Locked for almost 7 hours, calm environment.
Sun Sep 28 10:10:39 2025 INFO: Fill completed in 10min 35secs
TITLE: 09/28 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 153Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 9mph Gusts, 7mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.35 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Got called at 4:50 due to a mysterious SRM trip at 4:47 AM. IFO was in SRC ALIGN for initial alignment and SRM was railing during PREP_FOR_SRY. ST2 and ST3 sus tripped, which makes me think that initial alignment may have caused it? Microseism is on the rise but nothing jumps at me otherwise (attached).
Either way, I untripped it and waited until IFO got to DRMI which it just did. Flashes look good. Will continue light monitoring but I think guardia can take it from here.
Reset myself as the OWL.
Taking a look at some of the signals, SRM tripped at 11:47:36, about 30 seconds after it was aligned. An oscillation started ~5 seconds before the WD trip. ALIGN_IFO was starting SRC, the motion was mostly seen by the lower stage osems, M1 did not trip (barely, LF and RT saw an RMS of 140 where the trip threshold is 150). LF and RT seemed to see the largest motion, DAMP_Y_INMON was much larger than P which also tracks with that.
TITLE: 09/28 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 153Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: Quiet shift, locked for 5 hours. Range is much more stable than the last lock and up a few Mpc.
LOG:
TITLE: 09/28 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 156Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: USEISM
Wind: 4mph Gusts, 1mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.33 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: Just got back to observing after a 31 hour lock.
Relocking took a bit longer due to an earthquake off of the coast of oregon rolling through. The only thing of note was that I changed the threshold in ALIGN_IFO for the MICH Bright convergence checker from 1.5 to 2. This average convergence checker I've seen take longer then it should so I wanted to try to speed it up a bit.
TITLE: 09/27 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: TJ
SHIFT SUMMARY: The SQZer struggled a little before and during the calibration measurement, 1 lockloss that we are still recovering from (move spots as of 23:30).
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:48 | VAC | Pump | LVEA | N | AIP pumping on HAM6 | 02:42 |
| 22:16 | VAC | TJ | LVEA | N | Plug in ION pump | 22:21 |
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The EX fan2 is starting to get noisy. EY fan 1 is also starting to see some extra noise during the night (see the green trace on attachment 2).
Corner station and other outbuildings look good.
FAMIS26666
A few known blips from the power outage and the corrupted frames (alog86985), but it also looks like the temperature changed in both BRSs this week. I don't see any alogs on this, but it does seem to be putting it in the correct direction, leading me to think this was done by someone.
Other than that, the drift looks good.
Yesterday Gerardo instructed my to plug in the ion pump that's on top of HAM5 if we have a lock loss. The plug and recepticle are located on the NW corner of HAM5. Turning on the ion pump will help transition off of the carts that are pumping there sooner than waiting until a weekday.
I clicked submit on the alog above and then it unlocked. It was so coincident that I did, for a brief moment, wonder if there was any way it could have been related. Then my common sense came back. I'm going to have it start an initial alignment and then set it up for Ibrahim to give the best chance.