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H1 General - Thursday Ops shift summary.

anthony.sanchez@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:21:17 -0800

Author: anthony.sanchez@ligo.org

Report ID: 88721

TITLE: 01/09 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:
DAQ restart at 23:46 UTC

Mostly JAC & SQZer work was done today.
Fil did put hook up the HV for JAC use.
Light pipe is should and has been double checked to actually be shut.

LOG:

Start Time	System	Name	Location	Lazer_Haz	Task	Time End
17:16	SAF	LASER HAZARD	LVEA	YES	LVEA IS LASER HAZARD	01:35
15:59	FAC	Kim & Nellie	LVEA	yes	Technical Cleaning	18:00
16:06	Inventory	Christina	MX	N	Dropping off parts.	18:06
18:31		Mikes + Crew	LVEA	Y	Tour of the LVEA for an interview canidate	19:46
19:07	SQZ	Sheila, Kar Meng	LVEA	Y	HAM7 work cont	20:14
19:11	ISC	Rahul, Masayuki, Jason	LVEA	Y	HAM1 cabling, disconnect JM1, Rahul out b20:17	20:42
19:22	ISC	Jennie, Marc	PREP lab/ LVEA	N / Y	Grab cables and bring them to the LVEA HAM1	20:29
19:33	JAC	Betsy	HAM1	yes	checking the JAC progress	19:57
19:36	JAC	Elenna	HAM1	Y	Helping the JAC team	20:14
19:45	EE	Marc	LVEA	Y	Help ID cables at HAM1	20:29
20:53	EE	Fil	HAM1	y	Turning on High Voltage for JAC crew	21:26
21:36	JAC	Masayuki, Jennei W.	HAM1	yes	doing JAC work & research.	00:36
21:40	JAC	Elenna & Derek	LVEA	y	Rubbernecking near the HAM1 & HAM7	22:27
21:53	JAC	Jason	LVEA	yes	Working on JAC	00:48
22:45	PEM	Jim	EY	N	Getting Wind Fence numbers.	22:59
23:10	JAC	Richard	LVEA	Y	Checking on the JAC status	23:27
23:20	PCAL & JAC	Rick	PCAL Lab & LVEA	YES	Swapping spheres & then Rubbernecking past HAM1	23:44

H1 CDS - new h1lsc model installed, DAQ restart was needed

david.barker@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:59:13 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88720

Daniel, Erik, Jonathan, Dave:

we installed Daniel's modifed h1lsc model. This required a DAQ restart.

DAQ 1leg was restarted at 15:47, followed by the 0leg at 15:52.

H1 PSL - PSL Cooling Water pH Test - Monthly

ryan.short@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:53:24 -0800

Author: ryan.short@ligo.org

Report ID: 88718

FAMIS 27733

pH of PSL chiller water was measured to be between 10.0 and 10.5 according to the color of the test strip.

LHO VE - Thu CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:18:53 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88717

Thu Jan 08 10:02:56 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 2min 54secs

Images attached to this report

H1 IOO - Comment to JAC input periscope and JM1 installation

jennifer.wright@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:44:54 -0800

Author: jennifer.wright@ligo.org

Report ID: 88716

More photos.

Images attached to this report

H1 IOO - Comment to JAC in HAM1

jennifer.wright@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:43:37 -0800

Author: jennifer.wright@ligo.org

Report ID: 88715

I attached the photos of the readout from the nanoscan with the first one being the beam size at the front of the rail, second labelled zero is at zero of the rail, and the others are labelled with the position on the rail in mm.

Images attached to this report

H1 IOO - JAC in HAM1

masayuki.nakano@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:13:16 -0800

Author: masayuki.nakano@ligo.org

Report ID: 88713

[Jason, Rahul, Jennie, Betsy, Masayuki]

Summary

JM1 was swapped from a tip-tilt suspension to a fixed Siskiyou mount to improve beam stability for alignment, profiling, and JAC control. Mode matching to the JAC was measured using a beam profiler, yielding <1.5% mismatch in both axes, well within the current requirement. The JAC pedestal and body were installed in HAM1, and initial beam injection showed clear HoM resonances at the transmission port. One discrepancy in body mode damper mounting holes was identified and will be tracked via FRS.

Details

After discussion, we decided to replace the JM1 tip-tilt suspension with a fixed Siskiyou mirror mount. This provides easier alignment, beam profiling, and more stable JAC control compared to using a suspended mirror. As reported in the previous alog, JM1 had already been aligned to the target irises with a good angle, so the position of the JM1 suspension was marked with dog clamps to allow easy recovery of the alignment after installation work. The Siskiyou mount was aligned using the same target irises.
After switching the mirror mount, a beam profiler was set up in the reflected beam path from the fixed JM1 to measure mode matching to the JAC, as shown in the attached picture. The z-origin was defined at the position where the beam profiler cart reading was set at 16 cm along the rail. Due to cable length limitations, beam size measurements near the waist were not possible, but this was not considered a significant issue.
The measurement results are shown in the attached plot. The target and measured beam parameters are:
- w0_target = 548.00 µm, z0_target = −4.318e−01 m
- w0_x = 572.01 µm, z0_x = −5.277649e−01 m
- w0_y = 603.50 µm, z0_y = −3.736913e−01 m
The resulting mode mismatch was 1.363% (x) and 1.455% (y). Our current target for mode mismatch is 10%, which is sufficient for achieving a reasonable JAC lock. Therefore, this result is excellent and no further adjustment is required at this stage. Fine tuning may be performed later after JAC lock, possibly after HAM1 pump-down.
The JAC pedestal was installed and secured to the table, and the shim was placed on the pedestal.
The JAC body was then brought into the chamber. The procedure was recorded on video. A handle (not Class-B cleaned) was temporarily attached to the JAC; it was wiped down, and aluminum foil was inserted between the handle and the JAC body. During installation, Jason and Rahul supported the body from the sides while I handled the lift into HAM1. The end caps protecting the mirrors remained installed throughout this process.
During installation of the body mode dampers, we found that one of the screw holes specified in the drawings was missing. The location of the missing hole is shown in the attached picture. As a result, one body mode damper was shifted by one column of screw holes (a 2″ offset). We discussed this with Stephen and believe it should not cause an issue, although it will be monitored. An FRS ticket will be submitted to track this discrepancy.
After removing the end caps, the beam was injected into the JAC for a quick alignment check. A higher-order mode (HoM) resonance was immediately observed at the transmission port, confirming successful initial alignment. The next steps are fine alignment of the input and reflected beams, followed by in-vacuum wiring.

IOO

Images attached to this report

H1 General - Thursday Ops Shift Start

anthony.sanchez@ligo.org — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:41:22 -0800

Author: anthony.sanchez@ligo.org

Report ID: 88712

TITLE: 01/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 6mph Gusts, 3mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.05 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.87 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

Trello summary for today:
HAM! -mode matching check - Laser Hazard
HAM1 - JAC install & Anignment
HAM7 - More SQZ work- Laser Hazard

LVEA is currently in Laser Hazard status.

H1 SUS - Current Backlog of SatAmp Swap Comparisons (MC1(M2, M3), MC2(M2, M3), MC3(M2, M3), PR3(M2, M3), SR3(M2, M3), ITMX(L2), ITMY(L2), ETMX(L2), ETMY(L2))

oli.patane@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:21:37 -0800

Author: oli.patane@ligo.org

Report ID: 88707

Here are the rest of the satamp swap comparisons for the rest of the suspension/stages that we've upgraded as part of ECR E2400330. These were all swapped a while ago but I'm just getting around to making these comparisons now.

Overall, we do see a bit of improvement for these stages, although the high noise floor of the AOSEMs limits the amount of improvement we are able to see.

Notes about the results:
- ITMY L2: the original modified satamp that was swapped in on 10/14 ended up having issues and needed to be replaced on 10/16 with another modified satamp (87685). Because of this, the 'after' time that I chose here is after the second (working) satamp was installed
- ETMY L2: the original modified satamp that was swapped in on 10/14 ended up having issues and needed to be replaced on 10/24 with another modified satamp (87722). Because of this, the 'after' time that I chose here is after the second (working) satamp was installed
- SR3 M2: The comparison listed here is basically useless because it seems like there might have been something wrong with the old unmodified satamp. See 88706 for more info

Swapped Oct 14, 2025 (87469):
ITMX L2
ITMY L2 - needed to be swapped again Oct 16 (87685)
ETMX L2
ETMY L2 - needed to be swapped again Oct 24 (87722)

Swapped Oct 21, 2025 (87620):
MC1 M2, M3
MC2 M2, M3
MC3 M2, M3
PR3 M2, M3
SR3 M2, M3

ITMX
L2
Results:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMX_L2_NoiseComparison_1443956643vs1444642495-1200.pdf
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMX_L2_1443956643vs1444642495-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSITMX_L2_1443956643_1200.mat
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMX/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSITMX_L2_1444642495_1200.mat
r12824

ITMY
L2
* Since the satamp swapped in on 10/14 had issues and had to be swapped out on 10/16 for another modified satamp (87685), the 'after' time is with the working modified satamp
Results:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMY_L2_NoiseComparison_1443956288vs1445199479-1200.pdf
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMY_L2_1443956288vs1445199479-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSITMY_L2_1443956288_1200.mat
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSITMY_L2_1445199479_1200.mat
r12825

ETMX
L2
Results:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMX_L2_NoiseComparison_1442915673vs1445261656-1200.pdf
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMX_L2_1442915673vs1445261656-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSETMX_L2_1442915673_1200.mat
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSETMX_L2_1445261656_1200.mat
r12826

ETMY
L2
* Since the satamp swapped in on 10/14 had issues and had to be swapped out on 10/24 for another modified satamp (87722), the 'after' time is with the working modified satamp
Results:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMY/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMY_L2_NoiseComparison_1442915673vs1445434776-1200.pdf
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMY/SAGL2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMY_L2_1442915673vs1445434776-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMY/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSETMY_L2_1442915673_1200.mat
$sussvn/QUAD/H1/ETMY/SAGL2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSETMY_L2_1445434776_1200.mat
r12827

MC1
M2
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M2_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M2_1442005989vs1449002022-720.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC1_M2_1442005989_720.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC1_M2_1449002022_720.mat
r12828
M3
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M3_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M3_1442005989vs1449002022-720.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC1_M3_1442005989_720.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC1/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC1_M3_1449002022_720.mat
r12829

MC2
M2
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M2_NoiseComparison_1442007133vs1449002143-540.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M2_1442007133vs1449002143-540.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC2_M2_1442007133_540.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC2_M2_1449002143_540.mat
r12833
M3
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M3_NoiseComparison_1442007133vs1449002143-540.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M3_1442007133vs1449002143-540.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC2_M3_1442007133_540.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC2/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC2_M3_1449002143_540.mat
r12834

MC3
M2
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M2_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M2_1442005989vs1449002022-720.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC3_M2_1442005989_720.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC3_M2_1449002022_720.mat
r12830
M3
Results:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M3_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M3_1442005989vs1449002022-720.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC3_M3_1442005989_720.mat
$sussvn/HSTS/H1/MC3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSMC3_M3_1449002022_720.mat
r12831

PR3
* Not really important for these lower stages, but still wanted to note that the state of the estimator was that during the before time, P and Y were on, and and during the after time, only Y was on, and these times weren't during any of the times were we were seeing issues with the estimator damping.
M2
Results:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M2_NoiseComparison_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.pdf
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M2_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSPR3_M2_1444913610_1200.mat
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSPR3_M2_1445321359_1200.mat
r12836
M3
Results:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M3_NoiseComparison_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.pdf
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M3_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSPR3_M3_1444913610_1200.mat
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/PR3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSPR3_M3_1445321359_1200.mat
r12835

SR3
M2
* This comparison is useless because there seems to have been something wrong with the 'old' satamp, S1100105. See 88706 for more info
Results:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M2_NoiseComparison_1443025894vs1445809419-1200.pdf
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM2/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M2_1443025894vs1445809419-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSSR3_M2_1443025894_1200.mat
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM2/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSSR3_M2_1445809419_1200.mat
r12839
M3
* Not really important for these lower stages, but still wanted to note that for the before time, no estimators were on, and during the after time, only the Y estimator was on
Results:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M3_NoiseComparison_1443025894vs1445565979-1200.pdf
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM3/Results/allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M3_1443025894vs1445565979-1200.mat
Data:
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSSR3_M3_1443025894_1200.mat
$sussvn/HLTS/H1/SR3/SAGM3/Data/dampRegress_H1SUSSR3_M3_1445565979_1200.mat
r12837

CDS

Non-image files attached to this report

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMX_L2_NoiseComparison_1443956643vs1444642495-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSITMY_L2_NoiseComparison_1443956288vs1445199479-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMX_L2_NoiseComparison_1442915673vs1445261656-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSETMY_L2_NoiseComparison_1442915673vs1445434776-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M2_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC1_M3_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M2_NoiseComparison_1442007133vs1449002143-540.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC2_M3_NoiseComparison_1442007133vs1449002143-540.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M2_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSMC3_M3_NoiseComparison_1442005989vs1449002022-720.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M2_NoiseComparison_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSPR3_M3_NoiseComparison_1444913610vs1445321359-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M2_NoiseComparison_1443025894vs1445809419-1200.pdf

allDampRegressCompare_H1SUSSR3_M3_NoiseComparison_1443025894vs1445565979-1200.pdf

LHO General - Ops Day Shift Summary

ryan.short@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:50:34 -0800

Author: ryan.short@ligo.org

Report ID: 88711

TITLE: 01/08 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: More progress today on HAM7 beam alignment and with JAC install in HAM1, which is now in-place on the ISI.
LOG:

Start Time	System	Name	Location	Lazer_Haz	Task	Time End
17:16	SAF	LASER HAZARD	LVEA	YES	LVEA IS LASER HAZARD	Ongoing
17:39	JAC	Rahul	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	20:32
17:47	FAC	Kim	MX	N	Technical cleaning	18:29
17:48	JAC	Masayuki	LVEA/Opt Lab	Y	JAC installation	20:32
17:54	JAC	Jennie	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	18:48
17:57	JAC	Jason	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	20:32
18:26	JAC	Betsy	LVEA	-	Check in with JAC team	19:26
18:00	VAC	Norco	MX	N	LN2 fill	18:52
18:32	JAC	Kar Meng	Opt Lab	N	Looking for parts	18:35
18:35	SAF	Richard	LVEA	-	Safety checks	18:48
18:41	VAC	MikeL, MikeZ, Dolly, Lorna, others	LVEA	-	LVEA tour	19:39
18:47	SEI	Jim	EX, EY	N	Wind fence inspections	20:00
18:57	JAC	Jennie	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	20:32
21:39	CDS	Fil, Marc	LVEA	-	HAM1 cabling planning	22:16
22:07	JAC	Jennie, Jason, Masayuki	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	00:27
22:29	JAC	Betsy	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	23:29
22:29	SQZ	Kar Meng	LVEA	Y	HAM7 SQZ alignment	00:04
22:31	SQZ	Sheila, Elenna	LVEA	Y	HAM7 SQZ alignment	00:03
22:35	JAC	Rahul	LVEA	Y	JAC installation	00:27
22:36	JAC	Rick	LVEA	-	JAC installation checkin	23:36
23:06	VAC	Jordan	LVEA	-	Looking for parts	23:19
23:41	SAF	Richard	LVEA	-	Safety checks	00:00

H1 SQZ - Comment to OPO transmission clipping hunt continued...

karmeng.kwan@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:15:39 -0800

Author: karmeng.kwan@ligo.org

Report ID: 88710

Still need to tweak the alignment to ZM4, the beam is not centered on the iris, we also tried adjusting ZM3 but did not see any improvement.

H1 SQZ - OPO transmission clipping hunt continued...

karmeng.kwan@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:13:53 -0800

Author: karmeng.kwan@ligo.org

Report ID: 88709

[Sheila, Elenna, Karmeng]

Measured optical power (with power meter) of 0.89~0.9mW out of the OPO, 0.89~0.9mW after the first transmission through SFI1, 0.85mW (roughly 4.5%) after the reflection off filter cavity, and 0.84~0.85mW on SQZT7 first periscope.

We placed a photodiode right after second periscope on SQZT7 for diagnostic purpose.

SQZ

H1 CDS - UK 4CH satamp (currently a spare, previously on SR3 M2) noisy

oli.patane@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:56:33 -0800

Author: oli.patane@ligo.org

Report ID: 88706

Jeff, Oli

I think there is an issue with satamp S1100105, which was taken out from SR3 M2 back in October as part of our whitening filter upgrade satamp swaps (87620). I've put together some plots to show what the noise looked like on SR3 M2 before and after S1100105 was swapped out for an upgraded satamp (pdf). You can see in the Old plots that below 1 Hz there is a lot of noise that gradually slopes down; Jeff mentioned that it looks like a noise floor.

I found this out as I was making satamp swap comparison plots and found that no matter what time I chose as my 'before' time, the noise at lower frequencies was always very high, even after removing the coherent seismic noise.
I looked through many channels in ndscope and tried to find any differences between the before and after times that could possibly explain this noise but found nothing.
I have informed Fil and Marc and they will be testing the satamp.

SUS

Non-image files attached to this report

allDampRegressManyCompare_H1SUSSR3_M2_satampcheck-1200.pdf

H1 SEI - January 2026 Wind Fence Inspection

jim.warner@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:36:40 -0800

Author: jim.warner@ligo.org

Report ID: 88708

First fence inspection of the year. Repairs from 2 weeks ago at EY seem to be holding up. EX doesn't show any new damage.

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H1 IOO - Comment to JAC input periscope and JM1 installation

corey.gray@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:37:03 -0800

Author: corey.gray@ligo.org

Report ID: 88705

Tagging for EPO.

EPO

LHO VE - Wed CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:38:26 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88704

Wed Jan 07 10:04:55 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 4min 52secs

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H1 IOO - JAC input periscope and JM1 installation

masayuki.nakano@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:14:51 -0800

Author: masayuki.nakano@ligo.org

Report ID: 88703

[Jennie, Jason, Rahul, Betsy, Masayuki]

Betsy monitored the particle count throughout the work, and it remained below 20 at all times.

Summary:

The input periscope was installed and aligned. Minor First Contact issues on the top mirror required a mirror swap with the output periscope, after which installation proceeded smoothly. The periscope height and rotation were adjusted to center the beam on both mirrors and meet the 90° ± 5° rotation requirement with sufficient margin. JM1 was subsequently installed using target irises.

Work Details

Aligned the beam to the HAM1 irises. The bottom mirror of the periscope was used to align the first iris, and the top mirror was used for the second iris. Initially, the beam was hitting the left edge of the iris; after several iterations of beam walking, both irises were well aligned.
During removal of the first First Contact (FC) on the top mirror of the periscope, we found a small piece of FC residue remaining on the mirror surface. We attempted to remove it by scrubbing, but it could not be removed. Therefore, we decided to reapply FC to this mirror. The periscope was removed from the chamber and placed on a clean tray. Jennie and Betsy applied FC to the HR surface of the top mirror. The second FC attempt was also unsuccessful, so to continue the work without waiting for FC drying, we decided to swap this mirror with the top mirror from the output periscope, which will be installed later. The mirror taken from the output periscope was successfully cleaned, and the FC peeled off properly.
At the time of the first FC attempt, the target irises for periscope alignment were placed. The first picture shows the two target irises. Each iris was aligned to the corresponding hole line. I measured the distance from the hole line as shown in the second and third pictures. The iris was placed approximately three-quarters of the way from the hole line. (In one of the pictures, the hole is difficult to see, but it is located beneath the 4-inch tick mark on the ruler.) Before placing these irises in the HAM1, the height was also adjsuted with rulere to 4".
After positioning the periscope at its nominal designed location, we found that adjustment of the top mirror height was required. The periscope includes a vertical slot to accommodate different beam heights from the PSL at the two sites. The top mirror was moved to the highest position within the slot, which provided the best alignment for the beam to hit the center of both mirrors.
The output beam from the periscope was aligned by translating and rotating the periscope body itself. The rotation angle needed to be 90 degrees within a tolerance of ±5 degrees. As discussed below, this requirement was satisfied with margin.
The top mirror of the output periscope was also hung in the same manner as the input periscope, providing an appropriate output beam height.
After completing the periscope installation, JM1 was installed. Target irises were again used for alignment, and JM1 was positioned using these references. Details of this installation will be reported separately by Rahul.

Rotation angle discussion

The beam line from the PSL was projected onto the ISI table by measuring the iris positions that were placed at the beginning of this installation period (see earlier alog). The first iris (closer to the PSL) was positioned 1-3/8″ from the −Y hole line, while the second iris was 1-5/16″ from the same reference. The two irises are separated by approximately 48″, indicating that the beam has an angle toward the −Y direction of (1/16) / 48 = 0.0013 rad.
The beam from the periscope was aligned using two irises separated by 20″. Assuming the irises are parallel to the hole line and that the alignment accuracy is limited by the iris aperture size (~1 mm), the beam is parallel to the hole line within 1mm / 20″ = 0.0019 rad
Combining these effects, the total error of the rotation angle of the beam about the z-axis is less than 5 mrad even in the worst-case scenario. The requirement for this rotation angle is 90 degrees ± 5 degrees (±87 mrad), so the alignment meets the requirement with a safety margin of approximately a factor of 10.

IOO

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LHO General - Ops Day Shift Start

ryan.short@ligo.org — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:24:54 -0800

Author: ryan.short@ligo.org

Report ID: 88702

TITLE: 01/07 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 22mph Gusts, 11mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.06 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.60 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: HAM7 beam alignment and HAM1 JAC install work continues today. Quite windy overnight.

H1 SQZ - IR aligned to new OPO, working on alignment to irises and apertures

sheila.dwyer@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:42:19 -0800

Author: sheila.dwyer@ligo.org

Report ID: 88701

Sheila, Kar Meng, Elenna

Using the new dither lock settings from yesterday, 88686, we were able to see this morning that we were aligning to a higher order mode with two nodes displaced vertically from each other. We had aligned one of the nodes to reach the IR PD on SQZT7 before the holidays, the other node and the location where you would expect the 00 mode to be were clipping on the way to the PD, which is why we were having a hard time alignnig IR to the OPO using that PD. With the dither lock on the higher order mode, we adjusted the alignment between the OPO and SFI1 TPF using A:M1 and A:M2 (page 9), so that the mode was roughly centered on our irises and still reaching SQZT7.

We were able to iteratively improve the alignment of the seed into the OPO by manually finding resonances to set the dither lock to, once we locked to a 10/01 mode we were able to improve the alignment to the IR PD on SQZT7, which then made it easier to improve the seed alignment into the OPO so that we could lock on the 00 mode, realign to the irises using A:M1 and A:M2. Finally we fine adjusted the seed alignment into the OPO with the cavity scanning.

Now we can easily dither lock the OPO on the 00 mode, it's quite stable, and with the cleanroom lights off we can easily see this beam on the irises in HAM7 (and SQZT7). We attempted to align the sqz beam using only A:M1 and A:M2, but these are so degenerate that it seems rather difficult to do. Betsy loaned us a class B knob small enough to reach the tricky yaw actuator on A:M2, but we still found this difficult.

We decided to set A:M1 and A:M2 so that the seed beam transmitted by the OPO hits our irises after ZM1 and ZM3 and returns through SFI1 toward the B path without clipping, which should set the AOI on SFI1's TFP close to what it was before the cavity swap. Our plan is to then adjust B:M1 and B:M4 to hit the iris on ZM4 and SQZT7. For some alignments we are clipping on the aperture attached to A:L2, for others we are clipping on SF2. We stopped for the day after switching back and forth between these two a couple of times, we have reduced the amount of clipping but still see that we are not well aligned.

H1 General - OPS Tuesday Day shift summary

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:34:05 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88692

TITLE: 01/07 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: HAMs 7 and 1 work continued today, HAM1 crew is still out at the chamber as of 00:30UTC.
LOG:

Start Time	System	Name	Location	Lazer_Haz	Task	Time End
17:16	HAZ	LASER HAZARD	LVEA	Y	LVEA IS LASER HAZARD	01:35
15:38	FAC	Nellie	Optics lab	LOCAL	Tech clean	16:00
16:08	FAC	Kim, Nellie	LVEA	Y	Tech clean	17:36
16:41	SQZ	Sheila	LVEA	Y	HAM7 work	19:45
17:01	FAC	Chris+contractors	LVEA	Y	Pest controls	17:11
17:12	FAC	Chris+contractors	Ends, Y then X	N	Pest control	18:11
17:33	SQZ	Elenna	LVEA	Y	Join HAM7 work	19:44
17:36	VAC	Travis, Jordan	LVEA HAM1	Y	Add Septum viewport covers	18:11
17:40	PSL	Jason	PSL enc / LVEA	Y	Laser diode centering	19:57
17:43	sQZ	Karmeng	SQZt0	yes	Helping Sheila on the SQZr table	19:44
17:58	FAC	Nellie	EndY	N	Tech clean, garb restock	18:52
17:58	FAC	Kim	EndX	N	Tech clean, garb restock	18:25
18:12	FAC	Chris	LVEA	Y	FAMIS tasks	18:32
18:14	ISC	Betsy, Jennie, Masayuki	LVEA	Y	HAM1, Betsy out 18:26 UTC	20:02
18:20	PSL	RyanS	LVEA	Y	Lock PSL rotation stage	18:27
18:24	VAC	Travis	HAM1	Y	Grab phone	18:27
18:25	FAC	Kim	FCES / HAM SHAQ	N	Tech clean	18:53
18:33	FAC	Chris	Out buildings	N	Checks	20:45
18:58	ISC	Betsy	LVEA	HAM1	Join JAC crew	19:59
19:58	CAL	Tony	PCAL lab	LOCAL	Open apeture and start a meas	20:15
21:10	SQZ	Sheila, Kar Meng, Elenna	LVEA	Y	HAM7 chamber work	00:08
21:25	SEI	Jim	LVEA	Y	Move hardware around HAM1	21:32
21:29	ISC	Rahul, Masayuki, Jennie, Jason	LVEA	Y	HAM1 JAC work, pop into optics lab as well	Ongoing
22:02	VAC	Jordan	LVEA	Y	Help strap down a compressed gas cylinder by HAM1	22:21
22:38	CAL	Tony	LVEA/Optics lab	Y/LOCAL	Get optics case and lens wipes for HAM1 crew	23:04
23:11	ISC	Betsy	LVEA	Y	Join HAM1 crew	23:18
23:54	ISC	Betsy	LVEA	Y	Bring parts	00:27
00:10	VAC	Travis	LVEA	Y	Take a look around HAM1	00:17

17:47 UTC HAM1 ISI WD trip (left tripped)

H1 PSL - Comment to PSL mode match lens replacement

corey.gray@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:14:27 -0800

Author: corey.gray@ligo.org

Report ID: 88700

Tagging for EPO

EPO

H1 SEI - Comment to Wind fence patched for the end of the year

corey.gray@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:13:14 -0800

Author: corey.gray@ligo.org

Report ID: 88699

Tagging for nice outdoor/people photos of Wind Fence.

EPO

H1 PEM - Dust Monitor Trends - Monthly

ryan.short@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:50:09 -0800

Author: ryan.short@ligo.org

Report ID: 88698

FAMIS 37260, last checked in alog88278

Couple of peaks over the past few days which might correspond to high winds, but otherwise these look good for the duration including the holiday break and vent work.

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H1 PSL - PSL 10-Day (+7) Trends

ryan.short@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:26:13 -0800

Author: ryan.short@ligo.org

Report ID: 88697

FAMIS 31119

Pulling these trends for an additional week back to capture the duration of the holiday break. Main changes over this time were the PMC and RefCav transmission dropping while PMC reflected power increased, but not sure exactly why at this point. The periodic temperature spiking we've been seeing in the diode and chiller rooms appears to have mostly stopped as of the start of the break. We think this was due to the mini-split turning on, so I'll check with facilities if a setting was changed that could have caused this.

There has been work in the enclosure starting as of yesterday, which explains the change in many trends starting then.

Images attached to this report

H1 CDS - Comment to h1ascimc model change and DAQ restart

david.barker@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:18:28 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88696

Restart/Reboot Log --------------------------------------------------------

Mon05Jan2026
LOC TIME HOSTNAME MODEL/REBOOT
13:30:32 h1asc0 h1ascimc <<< Install Jennie's new model

13:32:11 h1daqdc1 [DAQ] <<< DAQ 1-LEG restart
13:32:19 h1daqfw1 [DAQ]
13:32:20 h1daqtw1 [DAQ]
13:32:21 h1daqnds1 [DAQ]
13:32:30 h1daqgds1 [DAQ]

13:37:38 h1daqgds0 [DAQ] <<< DAQ 0-LEG restart
13:37:43 h1daqfw0 [DAQ]
13:37:43 h1daqnds0 [DAQ]
13:37:43 h1daqtw0 [DAQ]

14:00:44 h1daqfw1 [DAQ] <<< Triple sponaneous FW1 restarts
14:09:39 h1daqfw1 [DAQ]
14:16:36 h1daqfw1 [DAQ]

16:41:00 h1daqgds0 [DAQ] <<< GDS0 DAQD restart on logout
16:45:12 h1daqgds0 [DAQ] <<< Test GDS0 crash reproducible
16:53:04 h1daqgds0 [DAQ] <<< Clean start of 0-leg
16:53:09 h1daqfw0 [DAQ]
16:53:09 h1daqtw0 [DAQ]
16:53:10 h1daqnds0 [DAQ]

H1 CDS - Comment to h1ascimc model change and DAQ restart

david.barker@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:15:30 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88695

Good news: FW1 has now been running 20 hours. Its beginning to look like the usual frame-writer-restarts-soon-after-DAQ-restart but with 3 restarts this time. We are not sure if we had seen a triple before.

Bad news: later yesterday afternoon h1daqgds0 daqd restarted itself coincident with Erik logging off of this machine. We did two more login/logout tests, the first restarted daqd the second did not. At this time is appeared to be related to the method of logging out, CTRL-D crashing daqd and "exit" not. I did another "exit" test this morning and unfortunately this time it did crash GDS0 DAQD. I restarted the 0-leg soon after (at 08:54) to resync the uptimes. So it appears to be independent of the method of logging out and is intermittent.

FRS36466 opened for this issue.

H1 SEI - FYI - Picket Fence data server comment - all good

brian.lantz@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:12:25 -0800

Author: brian.lantz@ligo.org

Report ID: 88694

Brian, Edgard, TJ Shaffer,

I got a group email from the USGS letting people know about an update to their data services. We checked and this does not impact the picket fence. I'm putting some email here for documentation

-Brian

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From: Edgard Luis Bonilla <edgard@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org
Date: January 5, 2026 at 5:01:56 PM PST
To: Brian Thomas Lantz <blantz@stanford.edu>
Cc: TJ Shaffer <thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG>, "michael.thomas@ligo.org" <michael.thomas@ligo.org>

Confirmed. The picket fences work.

Please let me know if anyone sees any issues and we will address them.

(... and ...)

I don't think this will be an issue. We don't use any restricted data for the Picket Fence.

I will go down to the lab before end of day to confirm we can still run it.

Best,
Edgard Bonilla

From: Brian Thomas Lantz <blantz@stanford.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2026 4:11 PM
To: Edgard Luis Bonilla <edgard@stanford.edu>
Cc: TJ Shaffer <thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG>; michael.thomas@ligo.org <michael.thomas@ligo.org>
Subject: Fwd: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org

Edgard -
I got this notice about the seismic network over the break. Do we need to do anything about this?
-Brian

Begin forwarded message:

From: Chad Trabant <chad.trabant@earthscope.org>
Subject: [Data Announcements] EarthScope fdsnws-dataselect service has moved to service.earthscope.org
Date: January 1, 2026 at 11:47:37 AM PST
To: data-announcements@earthscope.org
Reply-To: data-announcements+managers@earthscope.org

Happy new year!

EarthScope's fdsnws-dataselect web service, the primary source of miniSEED data from our seismological repository, has moved from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition.

Details are below and documented on the service documentation page:
https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1

We've worked to make this transition seamless, but if you encounter issues please contact help@earthscope.org.

Action required for restricted data users: You will need new credentials. Visit https://www.earthscope.org/user, create an account (if you do not already have one), then:

navigate to the
Credentials tab

click "REVEAL MY
CREDENTIALS," and then "CREATE FDSNWS CREDENTIALS" if none exist. These credentials are specific to you and should be kept private.

Redirects from the old service to the new

The old service location (at service.iris.edu) continues to operate, but instead of providing data redirects to the new location. The vast majority of web software follow these redirects automatically or can be configured to do so.

New HTTPS (TLS v1.2+) requirement

The service now requires secure HTTPS, specifically TLS 1.2 or later. Requests to the un-secure HTTP endpoint will be redirected to the HTTPS endpoint according to current best practices.

Some older software may not follow redirects from unsecure HTTP to secure HTTPS. Configure the software, if possible, to use the direct URL to the service https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1

Some older software may not support TLS 1.2+. As this standard was defined in 2008 and became default on most client and server software by 2016, we do not anticipate this causing many problems.

More details for client developers and power users
Changes in the new service:

Some output formats are not yet supported: SAC and text. These will be added later.

The
following parameters are being permanently retired: quality,
minimumlength,
longestonly,
repository,
szsrecs.

With the removal
of the szsrecs
parameter the service will no longer remove zero-sample records (as was the previous default), which matches the behavior of all other data center implementations.

There are limits
on the volume of data that will be returned. We recommend limiting requests to one station for a 24-hour period at the most.

Some HTTP response codes for errors have changed to be more precise, but they remain
broadly recognized codes.

Please reach out to help@earthscope.org if you have any questions or run into trouble with this new service.

Thanks,
The EarthScope Data Services team

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CDS

LHO VE - Tue CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:06:42 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88693

Tue Jan 06 10:01:38 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 1min 37secs

Short fill because discharge line pressure had been bumping up since last fill.

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H1 PSL - PSL mode match lens replacement

masayuki.nakano@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:23:33 -0800

Author: masayuki.nakano@ligo.org

Report ID: 88691

[Jason, Jennie, Masayuki]

We swapped and installed three new lenses—IO_MB_L1 (Rc = 250 mm), L2 (Rc = −150 mm), and L3 (Rc = 750 mm)—replacing the existing lenses with the same notation. The former two are 1″ diameter lenses, and the latter is a 2″ lens. All lenses were mounted in Newport lens mounts, with posts and post holders installed on Thorlabs BA2 bases.
Set the power stage to 2 W with 100 W of PMC output. The power along the path where the new lenses were installed was then reduced as much as possible using IO_MB_HWP1.
Before swapping the lenses, two irises were placed to provide alignment references. The final reference is the set of irises in HAM1; however, the in-PSL iris allowed alignment without external communication and made the process easier. These irises were placed downstream of the existing IO_MB_L2.
After removing the old lenses, the new IO_MB_L1 was installed such that the distance from IO_MB_M2 to L1 was 0.22 m. The beam was centered on the iris by adjusting the lens position. Subsequently, L2 was installed 6 cm downstream of L1 using the same procedure.
After alignment, we verified that the beam path around the beam adjustment stage was not clipped by any optics. All beam positions appeared nearly identical to those before the work began.
The third lens was then installed between IO_MB_M4 and M5 (the bottom mirror of the periscope) with a separation of 9 cm. To ensure the lens was centered on the beam, we centered the iris on the beam reflected from IO_AB_BS1 before and after installation. To observe the transmitted beam from M4, higher power was required; therefore, IO_MB_HWP1 was rotated to increase the EOM output power to 4–5 W.
The first and second pictures document the original lens positions, in case recovery of the mode matching directly to the IMC is required.
After completing the work, all power levels were restored. During this period, the new lenses were inspected with an IR viewer to confirm the absence of unusual stray light or unintended beam exposure.
Remaining work: alignment of the photodiodes monitoring the EOM output and PSL output. Since the overall beam profile has changed, it may be necessary to reposition the lenses to properly focus the beam onto the PDs.
During the work we found the beam is almost clipped on the beam dump capturing the mispolarized beam difracted by the EOM. So, we move the beam dump. The third picture shows this beam dump.

IOO, PSL

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H1 General - OPS Tuesday Day shift start

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:27:43 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88690

TITLE: 01/06 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 5mph Gusts, 2mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.31 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

JAC (HAM1, potentially more PSL enclosure), HAM7 work continues
NUC5 was dead and I restarted it

H1 CDS - Workstations updated

erik.vonreis@ligo.org — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:01:24 -0800

Author: erik.vonreis@ligo.org

Report ID: 88689

Workstations were updated and rebooted. This was an os packages update. Conda packages were not updated.

H1 CDS - OMC HV Power Supply

filiberto.clara@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:53:38 -0800

Author: filiberto.clara@ligo.org

Report ID: 88688

WP 12953

I was notified of a buzzing/whistling sound coming from the CER mezzanine. The HV power supply for the OMC PZT was found with audible alarm on and LCD screen not displaying correctly. Power supply was power cycled. Unit tripped immediately. With unit off, the field cabling going to LVEA was disconnected. Unit tripped when powered on. Unit was replaced with spare.

F. Clara, R. McCarthy, M. Pirello

ISC

H1 SQZ - Changes to IR dither lock setting

karmeng.kwan@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:33:36 -0800

Author: karmeng.kwan@ligo.org

Report ID: 88686

[Sheila, Karmeng]

To align OPO IR beam, we try to lock the IR dither lock at fundamental, but we were unable to see the error signal and dither. CLK_gain were changed from 0.1 to 1000, and the demodulation phase from 245 to 225. The resulting error signal as attached. A 200Hz wide bandpass filter added to the PD input dither around 3kHz, LSC_servo_gain changed from -10 to -300 to lock the OPO.

We also adjusted the beamsplitter (position before the IR camera) to center the IR beam on SQZT7 IR camera.

SQZ

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H1 General - OPS Monday Day shift summary

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:54:52 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88685

TITLE: 01/05 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: HAM7 and JAC work continued today.

Start Time	System	Name	Location	Lazer_Haz	Task	Time End
15:57	SAF	LASER SAFE	LVEA	NO	LVEA is Upgrade Phase Laser SAFE	17:16
16:46	FAC	Nellie, Kim	LVEA	N -> Y	Tech clean	17:29
17:00	OPS	Oli	LVEA	N -> Y	Transition to HAZARD	17:16
17:15	ISC	Jennie	Optics lab	LOCAL	Gather JAC parts	17:32
17:16	HAZ	LASER HAZARD	LVEA	Y	LVEA IS LASER HAZARD	01:35
17:26	SQZ	Sheila	LVEA	Y	Turn on SQZ laser, maybe take a look at the table	17:55
17:29	FAC	Nellie	MidY	N	Tech clean	18:26
17:32	FAC	Kim	EndX	N	Get garb	18:38
18:06	ISC	Jennie, Rick	PCAL lab	LOCAL	Get parts for JAC	18:20
19:01	ISC	Betsy	LVEA	Y	Check on headsets	19:14
19:20	EE	Marc, Fil	CER	Y	Investigate failing PS, HV HAM6 pzt	20:26
21:26	ISC	Jason, Jennie, Masayuki	PSL enc	Y	JAC work	Ongoing

19:32 UTC HAM1 ISI WD tripped

21:32 UTC DAQ restart

H1 CDS - h1ascimc model change and DAQ restart

david.barker@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:18:55 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88687

Jennie, Erik, Dave:

Jennie's new h1ascimc model was installed at 13:30 Mon 05Jan2026. This required a DAQ restart to add 2 slow channels.

At 13:32 we restarted the 1-leg, followed by the 0-leg at 13:37. GDS1 did not need a restart.

Following this DAQ restart we had 3 sponaneous restarts of FW1 after it had ran for 27:48, 8:02 and 6:22 minutes respectively. At the time of writing it has been running with no further restarts for an hour.

H1 CDS - Comment to Need model restart in week of Jan 5th to correct JAC/IMC models

jennifer.wright@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:34:08 -0800

Author: jennifer.wright@ligo.org

Report ID: 88684

I also added two cdsepicsOutput blocks (ASC-PSL_PZT_P and ASC-PSL_PZT_Y) before the DAC outputs going to the PZT to check what the model is sending to the PZT which will help us double check the switch between IMC and JAC signals works correctly.
See screenshot attached. I rebuilt h1ascimc.mdl and committed it to the svn at userapps/asc/h1/models.

IOO

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LHO VE - Mon CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88683

Mon Jan 05 10:04:11 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 4min 8secs

I increased the setting for thermocouple nominal max from 20C to 30C to match current values and remove a VAC-SDF diff.

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H1 SEI - Ground Seismometer Mass Position Check - Monthly

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:03:02 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88682

Closes FAMIS38887 , last checked in alog88362

HAMs 1-4, 7 and BSC2 are in non nominal SEI states due to the vent work.

2026-01-05 08:58:15.266231
There are 14 T240 proof masses out of range ( > 0.3 [V] )!
ETMX T240 2 DOF X/U = -1.625 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = -1.709 [V]
ETMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = -0.94 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -2.28 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.313 [V]
ITMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.485 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -2.433 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF X/U = -1.065 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = -2.971 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.372 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.449 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF X/U = -0.316 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Y/V = -0.444 [V]
HAM8 1 DOF Z/W = -0.755 [V]

All other proof masses are within range ( < 0.3 [V] ):
ETMX T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.007 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Y/V = -0.041 [V]
ETMX T240 1 DOF Z/W = -0.024 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.016 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.069 [V]
ETMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = -0.045 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.066 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.208 [V]
ETMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.266 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF X/U = -0.075 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.226 [V]
ETMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.049 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF X/U = 0.282 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.096 [V]
ETMY T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.149 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.158 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.283 [V]
ITMX T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.263 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.139 [V]
ITMX T240 3 DOF Z/W = 0.086 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF X/U = 0.07 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Y/V = 0.147 [V]
ITMY T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.021 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF X/U = 0.021 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.239 [V]
ITMY T240 2 DOF Z/W = 0.152 [V]
ITMY T240 3 DOF Y/V = 0.085 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF X/U = -0.107 [V]
BS T240 1 DOF Z/W = 0.123 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF X/U = -0.031 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Y/V = 0.038 [V]
BS T240 2 DOF Z/W = -0.052 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF X/U = -0.222 [V]
BS T240 3 DOF Y/V = -0.289 [V]

Assessment complete.
Averaging Mass Centering channels for 10 [sec] ...

2026-01-05 08:58:27.267417
There are 2 STS proof masses out of range ( > 2.0 [V] )!
STS EY DOF X/U = -4.63 [V]
STS EY DOF Z/W = 2.377 [V]

All other proof masses are within range ( < 2.0 [V] ):
STS A DOF X/U = -0.492 [V]
STS A DOF Y/V = -0.851 [V]
STS A DOF Z/W = -0.499 [V]
STS B DOF X/U = 0.153 [V]
STS B DOF Y/V = 0.944 [V]
STS B DOF Z/W = -0.303 [V]
STS C DOF X/U = -0.867 [V]
STS C DOF Y/V = 0.801 [V]
STS C DOF Z/W = 0.594 [V]
STS EX DOF X/U = -0.218 [V]
STS EX DOF Y/V = -0.16 [V]
STS EX DOF Z/W = 0.036 [V]
STS EY DOF Y/V = 1.254 [V]
STS FC DOF X/U = 0.161 [V]
STS FC DOF Y/V = -1.157 [V]
STS FC DOF Z/W = 0.625 [V]

H1 SEI - ISI CPS Noise Spectra Check - Weekly

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:53:08 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88680

FAMIS 27701, last checked in alog88650

The script reports high frequency noise is elevated for HAM1_V3, HAM7_V{1,2,3} which makes sense as they're vented. ITMX_ST1_V1 also reports elevated noise, ETMX_ST1_{H1,V3} are slightly elevated at high frequency.

HAMs 1-4 are still locked and the SEI configuration for the BS is in ISOLATED_DAMPED.

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H1 General - Comment to OPS Monday Day shift start

david.barker@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:39:28 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88681

Erik, Dave:

All workstations and NUCs which had been powered down during the break have been powered back up.

1. picket fence is working again.

2. I have stopped running nuc_dummy_ioc.py which was temporarily serving dummy NUC EPICS channels to the EDC

3. cds_report has been reverted to the pre-break version (it had been expecting WS to be down and NUC reported had been removed)

H1 General - OPS Monday Day shift start

ryan.crouch@ligo.org — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:29:39 -0800

Author: ryan.crouch@ligo.org

Report ID: 88679

TITLE: 01/05 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 12mph Gusts, 6mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.31 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

HAM1 and HAM7 work today
Picket fence IOC seems to not be running (CDS)

CDS

LHO VE - Sun CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:21:32 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88678

Sun Jan 04 10:09:35 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 9min 31secs

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LHO FMCS - EX Chilled Water Supply

tyler.guidry@ligo.org — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:57:09 -0800

Author: tyler.guidry@ligo.org

Report ID: 88677

At 9:42p local I received a cell alert declaring a loss of chilled water supply at End X. After remotely logging into FMCS I observed that the lead chiller (1) was in alarm and the CH-1 supply temp was hovering around 54F. I've since toggled the lead lag, and manually forced chiller 2 and chilled water pump 2 on. Given the low outside air temps and the lack of temp demands that vent require, this should suffice until all return from the break where we can investigate further. T. Guidry

LHO VE - Sat CP1 Fill

david.barker@ligo.org — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:40:14 -0800

Author: david.barker@ligo.org

Report ID: 88676

Sat Jan 03 10:09:51 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 9min 48secs

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