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Date |
Author |
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Category |
Subject |
Text |
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8199
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Thu Feb 28 05:54:54 2013 |
yuta | Update | RF System | phase tracker: calibration | I swept the frequency of RF input to the
beatbox to calibrate and check linearity
range of phase tracker. |
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8200
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Thu Feb 28 06:51:17 2013 |
yuta | Update | RF System | phase tracker: noise level | I measured noise level of the phase tracker
by inputting constant frequency RF signal
from marconi. |
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8201
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Thu Feb 28 14:19:20 2013 |
Max Horton | Update | Summary Pages | Multiprocessing Implementation | Okay, more memory would definitely be good.
I don't think I have been using MEDM (which
Jamie tells me is the controls interface) |
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8202
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Thu Feb 28 14:51:43 2013 |
Jenne | Update | PEM | "Rock Monster" causing low frequency noise | Manasa and I have been wondering why the
low frequency seismic noise has been different
in the last few days/weeks. I went |
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8203
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Fri Mar 1 01:17:06 2013 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | Xarm oscillation | There is an oscillation in the Xarm at
631Hz, which is not in the Yarm. There
is a small peak in POY11_I at this frequency, |
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8204
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Fri Mar 1 02:49:34 2013 |
Jenne | Update | ASS | Arm A2L measurement | I haven't finished debugging the scripts
so that the measurement is fully automatic,
like the MC, but I did measure the arm spot |
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8205
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Fri Mar 1 08:19:40 2013 |
Steve | Update | ASS | drift | Early morning drift in pitch. This
plot is meaningless because there is no real
light on IP-Ang |
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8206
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Fri Mar 1 14:50:36 2013 |
Steve | Update | VAC | pumpdown day 8 | Atm1, RGA background scan with TP3
pumping at day 7
Atm2, IFO CC1 = 1.1e-5 |
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8207
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Fri Mar 1 16:37:45 2013 |
Brett | Update | SUS | Global Damping Update | Brett and Kamal
The global damping testing for the
week is now complete. The c1sus.mdl simulink |
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8208
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Fri Mar 1 16:58:37 2013 |
yuta | Update | LSC | Xarm oscillation stopped | POX11 oscillation at 630 Hz was stopped
by installing 630 Hz resonant gain to LSC_XARM.
After few hours, oscillation stopped. |
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8209
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Fri Mar 1 18:23:28 2013 |
Jamie | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | updated version of "getdata" | I updated the getdata script so that it
can now handle downloading long stretches
of data. |
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8210
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Sat Mar 2 00:09:31 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | Xarm oscillation stopped | Don't use resonant gain - it
can lead to a loop instability since it makes
the loop have 3 UGFs. |
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8211
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Sat Mar 2 00:23:19 2013 |
rana | Summary | COC | Phase Maps measured of the ATF flat mirrors | I took the two 'flat' 2" mirrors over
to Downs and Garilynn showed me how to measure
them with the old Wyko machine. |
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8212
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Sat Mar 2 05:53:15 2013 |
yuta | Update | LSC | stable lock of PRMI | I tuned alignment, gains and filters to
achieve stable lock of PRMI.
It now locks quite stably with UGF |
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8213
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Sat Mar 2 14:52:02 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | stable lock of PRMI | Whereas
the sensing matrix coefficients for ITMX/ITMY |
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8214
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Sat Mar 2 20:09:12 2013 |
yuta | Update | RF System | phase tracker: DAQ noise limited | [Koji, Yuta]
We found that our phase tracker noise |
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8215
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Sun Mar 3 22:16:46 2013 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | LSC whitening triggering started | [Jenne, Annalisa]
We have started working on writing
the c-code to parse the LSC input matrix, |
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8216
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Mon Mar 4 09:51:26 2013 |
Steve | Update | ASS | IP-ANG is still not real | IP-ANG is coming out of ETMY
without clipping. The beam is very high on
the pick off mirror at the end table but |
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8217
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Mon Mar 4 09:55:33 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | LSC whitening triggering started | How about posting a logic flow
diagram? Is the idea to trigger only on the
power signals to determine the lock state? |
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8218
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Mon Mar 4 10:41:18 2013 |
Max Horton | Update | Summary Pages | Multiprocessing Implementation | Update:
Upon investigation, the other methods
besides process_data() take almost no time |
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8219
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Mon Mar 4 11:30:47 2013 |
Steve | Update | PEM | air cond problem |
The air cond is out of order
at the area covered by racks 1 X 1 |
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8220
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Mon Mar 4 16:26:45 2013 |
Brett | Update | SUS | Global Damping Noise Measurement | Here is an amplitude spectrum plot of y-arm
cavity noise with a 50 Hz cutoff damping
filter of the form zpk(0,[50;50],1). The |
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8221
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Mon Mar 4 16:46:31 2013 |
yuta | Update | SUS | oplev calibration for PRM | [Manasa, Sendhil, Yuta]
We calibrated oplev for PRM. Calibration |
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8222
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Mon Mar 4 17:32:26 2013 |
yuta | Bureaucracy | General | flowchart for PRMI g-factor measurement | I made a very useful flowchart for the
week. Our goal for the week is to measure
g-factor of PRC in PRMI. |
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8223
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Mon Mar 4 18:11:10 2013 |
Jamie | Update | SUS | Cleaning up suspension POS inputs | I did a little bit of cleanup of the suspension
POS inputs today, both in model and MEDM
land. |
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8224
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Mon Mar 4 19:38:21 2013 |
Charles | Update | General | Intensity Stabilization and Control Systems | I have been studying Jamies master's
thesis concerning intensity stabilization
of a solid-state laser (the 1064 nm specifically) |
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8225
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Mon Mar 4 19:52:03 2013 |
Jamie, Yuta | Update | General | input pointing mirror (TT1/TT2) control improved | We improved the active tip-tilt (TT) controllers
such that they now have filter banks at the
PIT/YAW inputs, and at the coil outputs: |
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8226
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Mon Mar 4 20:03:42 2013 |
Annalisa | HowTo | COMSOL Tips | Study of mirror mount eigenfrequencies | I studied the eigenfrequencies of
a mirror mount designed with COMSOL.
I imposed fixed constraints for the |
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8227
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Mon Mar 4 21:05:49 2013 |
Max Horton | Update | Summary Pages | Multiprocessing and Crontab | Multiprocessing: In its current
form, the code uses multiprocessing to the
maximal extent possible. It takes roughly |
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8228
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Tue Mar 5 00:24:52 2013 |
Manasa | Configuration | 40m Upgrading | Endtable upgrade for auxiliary green laser : customized mount | Drawing of customized mount for endtable
doubler crystal (PV40+PVP2+NP9071) modified
and updated on the endtable upgrade wiki |
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8229
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Tue Mar 5 01:43:04 2013 |
Jenne | Update | ASS | Arm A2L measurement script finished | In either .../scripts/XARM or ...../scripts/YARM
run either A2L_XARM or A2L_YARM.
The wrapper script will, like the |
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8230
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Tue Mar 5 06:27:14 2013 |
yuta | Update | LSC | intra-cavity power dependence on mirror misalignment | I measured intra-cavity power dependance
on mirror misalignment.
Intra-cavity |
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8231
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Tue Mar 5 14:59:32 2013 |
Steve | HowTo | VAC | dry-forepump replaced | TP3 turbo pump's dry-foreline pump was
replaced.
How to do it: |
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8232
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Tue Mar 5 17:09:30 2013 |
yuta | Update | SUS | oplev calibration for ITMY | [Manasa, Sendhil, Yuta]
We calibrated oplev for ITMY. Calibration |
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8233
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Tue Mar 5 17:23:06 2013 |
Chloe | Update | | QPD Adding/Subtracting Circuit | Today I finished building the adding/subtracting
circuit for the QPD and tested that the QPD
could see a laser moving across its visual |
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8234
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Tue Mar 5 18:36:27 2013 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | LSC whitening triggering started | More effort at debugging the LSC whitening.
Today I tried moving things over
to the c1tst model, which runs on the y-end |
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8235
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Tue Mar 5 23:00:08 2013 |
yuta | Update | LSC | Yarm and PRC g-factor from misalignment measurement | I fitted intra-cavity power dependance
on mirror misalignment plot with parabola
to get the g-factor. |
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8236
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Tue Mar 5 23:37:11 2013 |
yuta | Update | SUS | PRM angular motion spectra | I measured PRM angular motion spectra (in
daytime today).
PRM angular motion is |
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8237
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Wed Mar 6 02:46:20 2013 |
Manasa | Update | LSC | PRMI locking for g-factor measurement | [Yuta, Manasa]
PRMI alignment procedure for carrier
locking has been kept the same except that |
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8238
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Wed Mar 6 08:40:03 2013 |
Steve | Update | VAC | first scan of this pumpdown | Pumpdown 75 - Maglev - day 12
Precondition: 66 days at atm, installed
TIP-TILTs with coils that replaced |
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8239
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Wed Mar 6 09:44:29 2013 |
Koji | Update | LSC | PRMI locking for g-factor measurement | - What about normalizing POPDC to indicate
the carrier recycling gain?
- When you align the PMC, confirm |
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8240
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Wed Mar 6 11:33:09 2013 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | safety audit 2013 |
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8241
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Wed Mar 6 16:14:27 2013 |
Steve | Update | SAFETY | safety training | Chloe Ling, Max Horton and Annalisa Allocca
have received basic 40m specific safety training. |
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8242
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Wed Mar 6 18:14:33 2013 |
Manasa | Summary | LSC | Calibration of BS, ITMX and ITMY actuators | [Yuta, Manasa]
Measured |
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8243
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Wed Mar 6 18:27:24 2013 |
Jamie | Update | General | now recording input TT channels to frames, but why no autoburt? | I spent some time trying to figure out
how to get a record of the pointing of the
input pointing tip-tilt (TT) channels. |
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8244
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Wed Mar 6 18:51:07 2013 |
Annalisa | Update | Alignment | Auxiliary laser installed for FSR and TMS measurement of the PRC | We want to measure the g-factor of the
PRC using the beat note of the main laser
with an auxiliary NPRO laser. |
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8245
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Wed Mar 6 20:21:34 2013 |
Jamie | Update | General | Beatbox pulled from rack | I pulled the beatbox
from the 1X2 rack so that I could try to
hack in some output whitening filters. |
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8246
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Wed Mar 6 21:58:39 2013 |
Jenne | Update | Electronics | POX whitening was fine all along | After my investigations this afternoon
(with help from Sendhil and Shivaraj), |
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8247
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Wed Mar 6 22:11:19 2013 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | POX whitening was fine all along | At the time you, den and I worked together,
we could not lock the X-arm on TEM00 with
the FM1s of the POX11 on. |
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8248
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Thu Mar 7 01:43:35 2013 |
yuta | Update | LSC | calibrated MI differential length spectra | Free swing MI differential length is 86 nm
RMS and residual length when locked |
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