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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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16728
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Tue Mar 15 14:10:41 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | CDS | c1su2 model remade, reinstalled, restarted after the update | I have restarted c1su2 model with the connections
of Run Acquire switch to analog filters on
coil drivers. Following steps were taken: |
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16729
|
Tue Mar 15 18:42:37 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IX of BHR upgrade - AS1 resuspended and OSEMs tuned | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/16722
http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/16716 |
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16730
|
Tue Mar 15 18:45:12 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part X of BHR upgrade - BHDBS Path setup | [Paco, Anchal]
BS Chamber work
ASL
was positioned in nominal place.
PR3 |
|
16733
|
Thu Mar 17 17:23:22 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - Green laser alignment | [Anchal, Yehonathan] (on Y Arm)
We first checked if the PZT mirrors
M1 and M2 can be controlled. They indeed |
|
16734
|
Thu Mar 17 19:12:44 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | CDS | c1auxey1 slow controls acromag chassis installed, not powered | [Anchal, Tega]
We installed c1auxey1 computer
and the acromag chassis in 1Y4. The computer |
|
16737
|
Fri Mar 18 19:10:51 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | CDS | c1auxey1 slow controls issues | I started the modbusIOC service on c1auxey1
and added PD variance channels for UR and
SD as well. There are unfortunately |
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16738
|
Mon Mar 21 14:22:52 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | ETMY Alignmnet offsets needed to be changed | I'm not sure why but the PIT and YAW
offset values of +2725 and -2341 were not
sufficient for the reflected OPLEV beam to |
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16740
|
Mon Mar 21 18:24:07 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - Green laser alignment on Yarm | [Anchal, Tega]
We did the following alignment
steps on Yarm today: |
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16741
|
Mon Mar 21 18:42:06 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | CDS | c1auxey1 slow controls issues | Another issue, Green Y Shutter can not
be controlled with the EPICS controls right
now. This needs to be investigated. |
|
16742
|
Thu Mar 24 19:20:28 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - Green laser alignment on Yarm | [Anchal, Paco]
Uneloged: yesterday, Paco
and Ian tried locking the green laser on |
|
16743
|
Fri Mar 25 11:39:14 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | ETMY SUS Electronics Replacement - Questions | After Ian updated the cts2um filters for
OSEM, shouldn't the damping gains be
increased back by factor of 10 to previos |
|
16744
|
Fri Mar 25 18:20:28 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - Green laser alignment on Yarm | [Anchal, Paco, Shruti]
Today we found out that
the laser controller at the Yend had it's |
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16756
|
Mon Apr 4 17:03:47 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | CDS | c1susaux2 slow controls acromag chassis fixed and installed | [Anchal, JC, Ian, Paco]
We have now fixed all issues with
the PD mons of c1susaux2 chassis. The slow |
|
16757
|
Tue Apr 5 18:15:06 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - IR laser alignment on Xarm | [Paco, Anchal, Ian, JC]
We attempted the alignment of IR
beam into the arm cavities. We used PR2 and |
|
16759
|
Wed Apr 6 12:03:51 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - IR laser alignment on Yarm | [Anchal, Paco]
After Koji reduced the output resistors
on PR2/PR3 coil drivers, we got much better |
|
16762
|
Thu Apr 7 17:59:51 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - IR laser alignment on Yarm | [Anchal, Paco, JC, Tega]
Today we have aligned the Yarm
cavity for IR, with verified 1.5 roundtrips. |
|
16804
|
Fri Apr 22 12:09:51 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Coil Drivers | Please update DCC pages | Nice. Please put this information on the
DCC pages of the coil driver units. You'll
find links to all the units in this document |
|
16805
|
Fri Apr 22 12:15:08 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Cable post installation | If someone gets time, let's put in
all the cable posts and clean up our cable
routing on the tables. |
|
16810
|
Mon Apr 25 16:57:57 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Cable post installation | [Anchal, Tega, JC]
We installed cable posts in ITMY,
BS, and ITMX chambers for all the new suspensions. |
|
16811
|
Mon Apr 25 17:24:06 2022 |
Anchal | Update | CDS | DAQ still down | I investigated this issue today. At first,
it seemed that only new suspension testpoints
are inaccessible. I was able to use diaggui |
|
16815
|
Wed Apr 27 16:28:57 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | BHD Upgrade - Retreiving arm cavity alignment | [Anchal, Paco, JC]
We had to open ITMY, ETMY chamber
doors to get the cavity aligned again. Once |
|
16816
|
Thu Apr 28 09:12:18 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Restoring arm alignment | This would be a daily first task in the
morning. We'll need to check the status
of arm alignment and optimize it back to |
|
16817
|
Thu Apr 28 11:53:10 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | POP_SM4 and POP_SM5 Assembly | POP_SM4
I
tried out this stack today and found some
change of plans. |
|
16818
|
Thu Apr 28 17:45:53 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | POX Beam issues | [Anchal, Paco]
We investigated the low power issue
with POX11 photodiode. |
|
16819
|
Thu Apr 28 18:07:04 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Restoring arm alignment at EOD | Restored arm algiment to get 0.8 max flashing
on YARM and 1 max flashing on XARM. I had
to move input alignment using TT2-PR3 pair |
|
16824
|
Mon May 2 17:51:30 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | POX Beam aligned on RFPD, YARM locked | [Paco, Anchal]
We found that one of the Y1-1037-45P
marked mirror that we used was actually curved. |
|
16826
|
Tue May 3 14:02:09 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | Installed POP path in ITMX Chamber | [Anchal, JC]
I installed POP_SM4 and POP_SM5
in the ITMX chamber in the nominal positions. |
|
16829
|
Wed May 4 13:09:42 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | IMC table balanced again, IMC is locking, YARM is locking | [Paco, JC, Anchal]
We balanced the IMC table back
again to point that got us 50% of nominal |
|
16832
|
Thu May 5 14:46:22 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | POP beam height lowered, POP_SM4 raised | [Anchal, JC]
We first aligned the single arm
cavity resonance for both arms to get maximum |
|
16835
|
Fri May 6 13:48:34 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | WFS loop instability fixed | [Yuta, Anchal]
We investigated why WFS loop wasn't
working. It seemed like WFS1 PIT error signal |
|
16837
|
Mon May 9 18:43:03 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | ITMX table layout corrected | As I went to correct the ITMX Oplev mirrors,
I found that both mirrors were placed in
very different positions than the design |
|
16849
|
Thu May 12 20:11:18 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | BHDBS Output beams steered out to ITMY table | I successfully steered out the two output
beams from BHD BS to ITMY table today. This
required significant changes on the table, |
|
16854
|
Mon May 16 10:49:01 2022 |
Anchal | Update | DAQ | DAQ troubleshooting | [Anchal, Paco, JC]
Thanks Chris for the fix. We are
able to access the testpoints now but we |
|
16859
|
Mon May 16 19:14:17 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Camera set on AS path and BHDBS output path | [Anchal, Paco, Yuta]
We aligned AS path avoiding
any clipping to the AP table where we setup |
|
16860
|
Tue May 17 18:43:38 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Placed SRM in ITMY Chamber | [Anchal, Paco, Yuta]
SRM Placement
SRM
was moved from its parked location to the |
|
16862
|
Wed May 18 09:02:52 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | WFS1 PD centered | I centered WFS1 PD so that IMC WFS Servo
does not go out of range.
|
|
16863
|
Wed May 18 17:23:15 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Placed PRM in BS Chamber | [Anchal, Paco, Yuta, JC]
SRM Oplev setup
We
setup SRM oplev path for the aligned position |
|
16866
|
Thu May 19 19:05:59 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | BS Chamber all work finished, BHD path setup | [Anchal, Paco, Yuta]
BS Oplev Path
The
changed position of PRM (40m/16863) |
|
16872
|
Tue May 24 15:21:13 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Freeswing tests of new SOS started | I modified the script freeSwing.py
to use damping loop output switches to free
the optic instead of watchdog or coil output |
|
16899
|
Tue Jun 7 19:40:45 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | ITMY changed output matrix to disable use of UL coil | Since UL coil actuation is lost, we modified
the output matrix of ITMY to use only UR,
LR and LL face coils for POS, PIT and YAW |
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16913
|
Tue Jun 14 18:45:43 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | LO2 lower magnets are stuck in coil, won't come off | [Anchal, Yuta]
In the weekend, I ran a free swing
test on all optics. During this test, LO2 |
|
16915
|
Tue Jun 14 20:57:15 2022 |
Anchal | Update | ASC | Yarm ASS working now | I finally got YARM AS to work today. It
is hard to describe what worked, I did a
lot of monkey business and some dirty offset |
|
16925
|
Thu Jun 16 18:30:07 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | New diagonalized input matrices applied | I used the same fre swing data to diagnolize
input matrices of following optics:
MC1, MC2, MC3 |
|
16931
|
Tue Jun 21 08:36:50 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Diagonalized input matrices for LO1, freeSwing on ITMY and ITMX | Over the weekend, I ran freeSwing test
with sequential kicks in specific DOFs for
LO1, ITMY, ITMX. LO1 results were successfully |
|
16938
|
Wed Jun 22 14:44:03 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Fixed DC error in c1su2, added new library model for suspensions | The 0x2000 error in c1su2 happens whenever
we make it and install it as the default
data acquisition rates are too much in the |
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16946
|
Sat Jun 25 14:29:48 2022 |
Anchal | Update | IOO | WFS issues | This issue is very weird and still unresolved.
Without WFS loops, we'll have to realign
IMC often and we might loose IMC alignment |
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16957
|
Tue Jun 28 17:07:47 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Calibration | Added Beatnote channels in demodulation of c1cal | I added today demodulation of C1:LSC-BEATX/Y_FINE_I/Q
in the c1cal demodulation where different
degrees of freedom can be dithered. For McCal |
|
17010
|
Mon Jul 18 04:42:54 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Calibration | Error propagation to astrophysical parameters from detector calibration uncertainty | We can calculate how much detector calibration
uncertainty affects the estimation of astrophysical
parameters using the following method: |
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17016
|
Mon Jul 18 21:41:42 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | LSC | FPMI locking procedure using REFL55 and AS55 | Now that you have found a working configuration,
I suggest we update CARM and DARM filter
banks so that they are used in locking those |
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17017
|
Tue Jul 19 07:34:46 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Calibration | Error propagation to astrophysical parameters from detector calibration uncertainty | Addressing the comments as numbered:
Yeah, that's correct,
that equation normally |
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