We unstuck ETMX by shaking the stack. Most effective was to apply large periodic human sized force to the north STACIS mounts.
At first, we noticed that the face OSEMs showed nearly zero variation.
We tried unsticking it through the usual ways of putting large excitations through AWG into the pit/yaw/side DOFs. This produced only ~0.2 microns of motion as seen by the OSEMs.
After the stack shake, we used the IFO ALIGN sliders to get the oplev beam back on the QPD.
The ETMX sensor trends observed before and after the earthquake are attached.
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