TITLE: 11/28 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Preventive Maintenance
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 3mph Gusts, 2mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.19 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
IFO was locked (but not observing due to Tues magnetic injections). Sheila unlocked IFO through planned DARM configuration change.
PSL 102 dustmon is still stuck and giving warning: "dust counts did not change please investigate". See Oli's eve (11/27) summary alog 74421 to follow the story on this.
TITLE: 11/28 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Earthquake
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY: Relocked twice today, both locklosses (74432, 74438) being due to earthquakes. Had some issues with the first relocking, needing to go to GREEN_ARMS_MANUAL before running the initial alignment, and after still going through PRMI. Second relocking I also needed to touch both arms and we ended up going through CHECK_MICH_FRINGES on the way up. We are currently at LOWNOISE_COIL_DRIVERS. Other than that, everything was relatively normal.
We actually just got a verbals call out for an incoming earthquake from Fiji that is in the middle of the green zone on the EQ Response Zones script so hopefully we will be able to stay up!
LOG:
00:00UTC Detector holding in DOWN due to earthquake
00:40 Started Locking
- Needed to align ALSX manually, then on to an Initial Alignment
- 01:30 Initial Alignment completed, on to Locking
02:22 NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
02:25 Observing
06:30 Earthquake mode activated
06:31 Lockloss due to earthquake
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:35 | Louis & Dana | LVEA | n | Tour | 01:05 |
Lockloss 11/28 @ 06:31UTC due to earthquake from Alaska
Summary of the report:
Observing at 160Mpc and Locked for almost 2 hours now
TITLE: 11/28 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Earthquake
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Austin
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: EARTHQUAKE
Wind: 1mph Gusts, 0mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.32 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.21 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Detector went down due to an earthquake(74432) and we are currently having another earthquake pass through so we will be holding in DOWN for a bit longer.
00:40 11/28 Started relocking
02:25 Observing
TITLE: 11/27 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Aligning
INCOMING OPERATOR: Oli
SHIFT SUMMARY:
- Superevent S231127cg
- Went in to commissioning from 17:43 to do some guardian squeezer work, back to observing @ 17:48
- EX saturation @ 17:59
- 19:45 - GRB-Short E456064
- 21:20 - GRB-Short E456081
- 21:53 - inc 6.6 EQ from Papua New Guinea
- H1 is currently running an initial alignment following the EQ from earlier
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:08 | FAC | Karen | MY | N | Tech clean | 17:23 |
| 17:00 | FAC | Kim | MX | N | Tech clean | 17:54 |
| 22:24 | PSL | Ryan S | CR | N | Refcav alignment | 22:34 |
While the IFO was down this afternoon waiting for a large earthquake to pass, I took the opportunity to touch up the FSS RefCav alignment as it had drifted over the past few days (likely assosciated with the drop in temperatures over the weekend). With the ISS still ON and the IMC offline, I used the two picomotor-controlled mirrors in the FSS path to increase the signal on the TPD from 0.87V to 0.96V. The adjustment needed was mostly in pitch, as usual.
Lockloss @ 22:13, caused by a 6.6 EQ from Papua New Guinea.
Mon Nov 27 10:04:41 2023 INFO: Fill completed in 4min 38secs
Jordan confirmed a good fill curbside.
The fill only barely completed, TC-A flat lined at -90.0C and for just one sample went to -90.1C which triggered the end-of-fill. I've increased the trip temp to -80C. The site is experiencing freezing fog, temp=-3C. I suspect TC icing may be an issue.
Sheila, Camilla, Jenne, Austin
We droped out of observe for a few minutes to start running the sqz angle adjustment guardian state using the ADF that Naoki wrote on Wed (74376). This changed the sqz angle by a few degrees in the first 2 minutes it was on, which improved the sqz blrms slightly.
Because Vicky put some code in ISC_LOCK that set the SQZ_MANAGER request to it's nominal state, the only change we had to make was to change the nominal state of SQZ_MANAGER, and this should now be used in future locks. The new SQZ_MANAGER state is ADJUST_SQZ_ANG_ADF state number 110
After several hours this still seems to be working, and our SQZ BLRMS have been stably a little better.
We had two IFO re-locks last night with this servo running, plot attached. Comparing the first 2 hours of the lock with the servo running and without, the yellow and green BLRMS 300-1000Hz are more stable and lower with the new servo, this is great! Purple (4.6kHz) also improves more quickly.
The IFO range is still changing over the first hour of the lock but this is expected as the IFO thermalizes and may be less than the 1h30-2h we were seeing without the servo. Maybe the ADF RMS changing can tell us something about this.
FAMIS 20004
Our incursion into the enclosure last week can be clearly seen on several trends. Since then, the RefCav alignment seems to have drifted (verified by the RefCav reflected camera image) and the TPD now has a lower value of 0.86V.
No other major events of note.
TITLE: 11/27 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 144Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Tony
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 3mph Gusts, 2mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.24 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
- IFO locked for just under 21 hours
- Microseism looks to finally be calm
- CDS ok
- DM PSL 102 needs to be restarted
ETMY mode1, and ITMX mode 12 are slowly ringing up under its current settings, turning off the gain for a bit then I'll try a sign change.
I've had success with the following settings, the spreadsheet has been updated with these as well.
ETMY1: FM1+FM10 G=-0.2
ITMX12: FM1+FM6+FM10 G=+1
TITLE: 11/23 Eve Shift: 00:00-08:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 157Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:
The last hour has shown a drops in range while being in OBSERVING. In the last 30min the range drops have been less severe, but this is an odd one.
Had a few bumps out of observing due to the squeezer, but it would only be for about ~2min as the squeezer relocked itself. L1 came back to Observing this shift.
LOG:
The range fuzziness that started at 11/23 07:02UTC, also mentioned in 74387. From SQZ BLRMs can see that this is in the 80-140Hz region, plot attached. This is not related to SQZ unlock/relock as it was 45 minutes before. The SEI states didn't change at this time. Can't see anything in PEM channels in CS and Ends, plot attached. CS Fan5 appears to change it's readback around an hour after the range fuzziness started, plot attached.
Can see some change in FAN5 around the time the range fuzziness started this morning at 15:31UTC, plot attached.
Ryan C also did some investigation in 74383.
Fan5 seems fine: Eric helped me look into Fan5 and Air Hander 3 that is linked to this fan. This Fan is off but the channels will pick up air flow from other fans. The noise just seems to change on ~few hour period making it look suspiciously in time with DARM fuzziness starting. We see no significant changes in the last few weeks.
DARM while range fuzzy: As suggested by Robert, attached is DARM in two range dips during glitches (yellow at 07:02UTC, red at 08:35UTC) and green was more typical of what DARM looked like during this fuzzy time (DARM broadly increasing and decreasing in 20-200Hz region). I can see no obvious scattering arches but Robert suggested using the Q-transform tool of ldvwweb to check these glitches: Arianna did this in 74455.
Currently we have the Magnetic injections begin measuring the background at 15:20UTC, taking the IFO out of observing at 15:21:45UTC. They finish at 15:40UTC and the IFO goes back into observing for 5 minutes before the in-lock charge measurements start at 15:45UTC. Charge measurements now finish at 15:59:45UTC, adjusted in 74186. Ryan S and I can work together move the measurements to avoid the 5 minutes in observing.