Camilla, Dave:
nuc26:
nuc26 had an OS issue overnight which caused it to transition its root filesystem to read-only mode. I rebooted it at 08:11 PDT and it is operating correctly now.
nuc30:
The camera image for cam15, HAM6 OMC TRANS, went blue screen at 07:56 PDT this morning. I restarted the camera server on h1digivideo1 and then power cycled the camera by POE toggling on sw-lvea-aux to no avail, h1cam15 still does not respond to pings. Further investigation is needed.
TITLE: 06/15 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 11mph Gusts, 7mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.14 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: Ryan just got us back to NLN at 14:55UTC, range 137MPC. Waiting for ADS to converge before going to Observing.
VAC, SUS, SEI, CDS, dust monitors all okay.
Observing at 15:04UTC. Current range 136Mpc.
TITLE: 06/15 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Lock#1:
NLN at 06:00, in Observing at 06:12, out at 06:43 from the SQZer unlocking, back in Observing at 06:45
Lockloss at 08:04, most likely from some local ground motion event. Ground motion seen mostly in the 1-3, 3-10 Hz bands. The 10-30Hz band saw the motion too but not as strongly.
Lock#2:
Xarm ran through increase flashes twice, couldn't get DRMI, went through PRMI which locked quickly, then locked DRMI in ~5 minutes.
NLN at 09:23, in Observing at 09:29
Lockloss at 13:52
Lock#3:
Yarm went through increase flashes, DRMI locked without needed to go through PRMI
NLN at 14:55, waiting on ADS to converge to go into observing
LOG:
Went out of Observing dur to OPO_SERVO railing and SQZ_OPO guardian requested itself DOWN, see attached.
Lockloss at 13:52UTC, no obvious causes to the lockloss, there was an EX saturation seconds beforehand just as with the last lockloss.
We had one lockloss due to anthropagenic ground motion at 08:04, relocked without any intervetions. Back to NLN at 09:23, Observing since 09:29UTC
Quick lockloss at 08:04, EX saturation then an immediate lockloss, LSC_PR_GAIN_OUT16 channel on NUC30 look like it rung up a few seconds before the lockloss
TITLE: 06/15 Owl Shift: 07:00-15:00 UTC (00:00-08:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 133Mpc
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 13mph Gusts, 10mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.04 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.16 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
TITLE: 06/14 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
SHIFT SUMMARY:
More observing than last night, but there was another shorter wind storm (winds over 30mph) which prevented locking for 3+hrs. Commissioing time was used for a Robert measurement and PRCL OLG. Squeezer knocked H1 out of Observing for about 3min toward the end of the shift, but came back on its own.
LOG:
Tagging SUS. At the first 23:21UTC lock acquisition, the last guardian to arrive and allow us into Observing was VIOLIN_DAMPING. Can we think about reducing it's sleep timer?
At about 615pmPT (or 115utc), winds started peaking above 30mph (lockloss at 219utc), and have flattened out there with some peaks hitting 50mph. Not as dire as last night, but it is a windy ruckus out. Taking OBSERVATORY Mode to WIND, keeping ISC LOCK at LOCKING ARMS GREEN, and will assess in 1hr. Oh there was also a 6.2 EQ from the Phillipines, but Seismic is already back to Calm. (Time to make supper.)
If it's like yesterday, the winds started to die down after the sun went down around 9-10pm.
Jenne had me run a couple of PRCL OLG measurements this evening. Referencing Camilla's measurement from alog #70451.
Measurement #1 ~00:49utc
The first measurement was done as soon as we were at NOMINAL LOW NOISE (had to wait a few min for the Camera Servo node to complete) at 0049utc. Magnitude is 1 at 32.0Hz with phase of 24.1 deg.
(see attached 1st plot & file is at /ligo/home/corey.gray/dtt/prcl_olg_noise_full_lock_nln_0049_15062023.xml)
Measurement #2 ~01:19 utc
Second measurement was run after Robert performed PEM measurments. Magnitude is 1 at 35.0 Hz with phase of 25.1 deg.
(see attached 2nd plot & file is at /ligo/home/corey.gray/dtt/prcl_olg_noise_full_lock_nln_0119_15062023.xml)
Another pretty windy day, I've been looking at the ETMY ISI to see if any changes can be made to help staying locked. Only easy thing I've found so far is turning off the off-axis sensor correction. Watching the outputs here, it is contributing to the ISI swinging several microns. I don't think it will change much, but don't have a lot of other things to try, at the moment, and it probably can't hurt. I've accepted the diff in the observe file, so this shouldn't affect our ability to go to observe when Corey is done relocking.
Attached trend shows the St1 X cps on the top, on the bottom 2 different points of the X sensor correction path to show when I turned it off, green is the filter output, orange is the output of the downstream match bank where I turned off the output. When the sensor correction is on the CPS is mostly dominated by it at low frequency, swiinging almost 10 microns at points. With sensor correction off, when the orange trace goes to 0 on the bottom, the cps stops moving around so much.
This was turned off 06/14 23:50UTC, and will be kept off for now. Tagging DetChar.
EndX Station Measurement
During the Tuesday maintenace, the PCAL team(Rick Savage, Julianna Lewis, & Tony Sanchez) went to EndX with Working Standard Hanford aka WSH(PS4) and took an End station measurement.
The EndX Station Measurement was MOSTLY* carried out according to the procedure outlined in Document LIGO-T1500062-v15, Pcal End Station Power Sensor Responsivity Ratio Measurements: Procedures and Log, and was completed by 10:30am. LIGO-T1500062-v15 is attached. After we were done but before we left we took a new background measurement with the PCAL covers on.
First thing I do is take a picture of the beam spot before anything is touched!
Martel:
We started by setting up a Martel Voltage source to apply some voltage into the PCAL Chassis's Input 1 channel and we record the times that a -4.000V, -2.000V and a 0.000V signal was sent to the Chassis. The analysis code that we run after we return uses the GPS times, grabs the data and created the Martel_Voltage_Test.png graph. We also did a measurement of the Martel's voltages in the PCAL lab to calculate the ADC conversion factor, which is included on the document.
After the Martel measurement the procedure walks us through the steps required to make a series of plots while the Working Standard(PS4) is in the Transmitter Module. These plots are shown in WS_at_TX.png.
Next steps include: The WS in the Receiver Module, These plots are shown in WS_at_RX.png.
Followed by TX_RX.png which are plots of the Tranmitter module and the receiver module operation without the WS in the beam path at all.
The last picture is of the Beam spot after we had finished the measurement.
All of this data is then used to generate LHO_EndX_PD_ReportV2.pdf which is attached, and a work in progress in the form of a living document.
All data and Analysis has been commited to the SVN.
https://svn.ligo.caltech.edu/svn/aligocalibration/trunk/Projects/PhotonCalibrator/measurements/LHO_EndX/
*After the Normal Measurment: Rick and I put the covers back on like normal, but we shuttered the Laser again, to try and get a backgorund measurement of the Rx Sphere with all of the covers on.
The GPS StartTime for this new measurement is 1370712650.
PCAL Lab Responsivity Ratio Measurement:
A WSH/GSHL (PS4/PS5)FrontBack Responsivity Ratio Measurement was ran, analyzed, and pushed to the SVN.
The analysis of this measurement produces 4 PDF files which we use to vet the data for problems.
raw_voltages.pdf
avg_voltages.pdf
raw_ratios.pdf
avg_ratios.pdf
All data and Analysis has been commited to the SVN.
https://svn.ligo.caltech.edu/svn/aligocalibration/trunk/Projects/PhotonCalibrator/measurements/LabData/PS4_PS5/
A surpise BackFront PS4/PS5 Responsivity Ratio appeared!!
PCAL Lab Responsivity Ratio Measurement:
A WSH/GSHL (PS4/PS5)BF Responsivity Ratio measurement was ran, analyzed, and pushed to the SVN.
The analysis of this measurement produces 4 PDF files which we use to vet the data for problems.
raw_voltages2.pdf
avg_voltages2.pdf
raw_ratios2.pdf
avg_ratios2.pdf
This adventure has been brought to you by Rick Savage, Julianna Lewis, & Tony Sanchez.
TITLE: 06/14 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
SHIFT SUMMARY: some Observing time and a commissioning period today, planned to do calibration sensing function measurements but lost lock before these started.
LOG:
IFO changes config changes today: SQZ angle 70440 and OMC DCPD balance.70453
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:21 | FAC | Christina | OSB Receiving | N | Opening Roll up door | 15:51 |
| 16:45 | SQZ | Camilla | CR | N | SQZ angle adjustments 70440 | 17:15 |
| 17:54 | PEM | Robert | LVEA | N | checking PSL make-up air while IFO down | 18:29 |
| 18:26 | FAMIS | Tony, Brice | EY | N | Dust pumps check | 18:55 |
| 18:35 | VAC | Janos | MY | N | checking on pump outside VEA | 18:54 |
| 18:45 | Eadie | Y-arm | N | Jogging | 20:04 | |
| 18:53 | PEM | Robert | CER | N | Check while IFO locking | 18:53 |
| 21:38 | COMM | Brina | CR | N | HAM1 FF off 70450 | 21:39 |
| 21:38 | COMM | Camilla | CR | N | PRCL OLG 70451 | 21:39 |
| 21:39 | COMM | Naoki, Vicky | CR | N | PI damping changes 70452 | 22:30 |
| 21:40 | PEM | Robert | CR | N | HVAC on/off tests | 21:58 |
| 21:59 | COMM | Sheila | CR | N | DCPD balance and No-SQZ 70453 | 22:28 |
| 22:00 | CDS | Erik | Remote | N | Updating temperature ioc 70455 | 23:00 |
TITLE: 06/14 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Commissioning
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 17mph Gusts, 9mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.21 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Arrived to H1 on its way back to NOMINAL LOW NOISE and received a day shift summary from Camilla. Much better weather-wise *knock on wood*. No other notable issues while waiting for H1.
Last done in alog 70160. Measurement taken after 2h35 in NLN.
Magnitude is 1 at 26.5Hz and 26.5degrees. Plot attached.
Here is a plot showing the PRCL gain thermalization (same as from alog 70211), but with information from Camilla's measurement today added in the small grey marker at about 155 mins. It needs to be high relative to what we'd been using (pink line) since June 6th. Recall that these PRCL locklosses we've been having are likely because our PRCL gain is too low. So, I'll see if I can make another thermalization curve that increases faster.
I've got a new candidate thermalization, the yellow curve in this (becoming much too busy) plot. This won't quite get the gain as high as it wants at the 2hr35min point, but it also won't overshoot the 4 hour target from 6 June 2023 by too much. The thermalization guardian just holds the gain at the value at the end of this plot (it doesn't keep following the curve forever), so the final gain won't be very different with this new candidate (yellow) versus what we've been running with after 6 hours of lock in pink.
I'm going to implement this quickly before we get relocked. This means using a GAIN_SCALE of 5.25 (has been 5.55 for pink trace) and a TIME_CONSTANT of 5571 (has been 7800 for blue, orange, pink, green traces).
I modified and loaded the THERMALIZATION guardian, and checked it in to the svn, while we were relocking. Hopefully this will reduce the number of PRCL locklosses we're seeing.
Famis Task: 23750
I wanted to just swap the pumps with the one below the table but couldn't reach the pump rebuild log https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-Q2200010 because i didn't have any internet at the end stations and couldn't determine if the spares had been rebuilt already or not.
EX
Dust pump number 2950 Not running and Unplugged.
I checked the Log and noticed that pump 2950 only lasted 2 months. But the pump below the table was newly built around the same time.
So I'm going to Leave the Famis Task open until I can swap out the pump.
EY
Dust pump was Running pressure was 19.5 inHg.
No temps over 151F .
Corner Station
Dust pump number 1194 Power not switched on.
Spare 1119313238 has also been rebuilt and is ready to be swapped out.
I will try to swap these out Tomorrow or Tuesday.
UPDATE!! CS Dust pump Pump Power not switched on. I spoke to TJ about it. It's on a breaker and I beleive the breaker tripped. I had to turn it off before I could turn it back on. When I turned it on It sputtered to live and puffed a rather large puff of dust out. So much so it startled our Surf student Rachel and I. It was getting vacuum pressure around -14 inHg. So I swapped it out for 3238. The Brass threaded fitting below the 4 way splitter that the gauge is afixed to in the top of the housing is stuck and I couldn't remove it for the swap. I ended up finding a good replacemet for the threaded brass fitting to go into the next pump i swapped it for. The new pump # ending in 3238 is running great and has more than enough vacuum pressure, I set the pressure to be at -19inHg. The pump that was removed was placed in the OSB receiving room to be rebuilt or otherwise just cleaned up. EX Dust pump Pump number ending in 2950 Not running Unplugged. I plugged it in and noticed that it was not getting very past -9 inHg and sounded unwell. I came back the next day to find that the pressure was still too low though it had creeped up to -13inHg. I then swapped out the pump with the one under the table Pump # ending in 2109which was newly rebuilt. This too was still too low of a pressure around -14.5inHg. I checked the filters for tightness on the front of the pump housing. I then jiggled the vacuum hose a little and saw a the pressure go back up. So I checked the hose fitting and noticed that the hose was affixed to a plastic fitting that has threads going into to the brass 4 way fitting without any plumbers tape. I then put some plumbers tape on it, put it back together and fired her back up. I still didn't see the pressure we desired it's only at -17inHg. I went back to day to check on it and it's still at 17inHg. There is not any more room for adjustment on the vacuum pressure adjuster. The old pump is in the OSB recieving room. I will try to open up those pumps next week.
FRS28295 opened for h1cam15 not responding issue.
Connected to camera via laptop, no response. Camera will need to be replaced but requires laser hazard. Camera not required for relocking. Working with commissioners to find time to replace/align camera. Patrick T. will update serial number and mac address of new camera.