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Thu Nov 1 19:55:03 2007 |
Andrey Rodionov | Bureaucracy | Photos | Andrey's photo | |
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54
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Thu Nov 1 19:55:59 2007 |
Andrey Rodionov | Bureaucracy | Photos | Andrey, Tobin, Robert - photo | |
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55
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Thu Nov 1 19:58:07 2007 |
Andrey Rodionov | Bureaucracy | Photos | Steve and Tobin's picture | |
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56
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Thu Nov 1 20:03:00 2007 |
Andrey Rodionov | Summary | Photos | Procedure "Drop and Drag" in pictures | |
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57
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Fri Nov 2 08:59:30 2007 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | the laser is ON | The psl laser is back on ! |
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58
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Fri Nov 2 12:18:47 2007 |
waldman | Summary | OMC | Locked OMC with DCPD | [Rich, Sam]
We locked the OMC and look at the signal |
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59
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Sat Nov 3 16:20:43 2007 |
waldman | Summary | OMC | A good day's work |
I followed up yesterday's test of the PZT
with a whole mess of characterizations of |
6x |
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60
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Sun Nov 4 23:22:50 2007 |
waldman | Update | OMC | OMC PZT and driver response functions | I wrote a big long elog and then my browser
hung up, so you get a less detailed entry.
I used Pinkesh's calibration of the PZT |
7x |
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61
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Sun Nov 4 23:55:24 2007 |
rana | Update | IOO | Friday's In-Vac work | On Friday morning when closing up we noticed
that we could not get the MC to flash any
modes.
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62
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Mon Nov 5 07:29:35 2007 |
rana | Update | IOO | Friday's In-Vac work | Liyuan recently did some of his pencil beam
scatterometer measurements measuring not
the
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63
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Mon Nov 5 14:44:39 2007 |
waldman | Update | OMC | PZT response functions and De-whitening | The PZT has two control paths: a DC coupled
path with gain of 20, range of 0 to 300
V, and a pair of 1:10 whitening filters, |
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64
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Mon Nov 5 22:24:38 2007 |
Andrey, Steve | Omnistructure | VAC | Pumping down goes smoothly |
We (Steve and Andrey) started pumping down
at 3.25PM today. At 9 PM we turned off the |
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65
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Tue Nov 6 09:14:37 2007 |
steve | Summary | VAC | pump down 65 | 8 hr plot,
precondition: 5 days at atm,
vent objective: drag wiping mc1, mc2 & mc3 |
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66
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Tue Nov 6 09:45:22 2007 |
steve | Summary | SUS | vent sus trend | The mc optics dragwippings were done by locking
optics by eq stops and rotating-moving
cages so access were good. This technic worked |
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67
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Tue Nov 6 10:42:01 2007 |
rob | Configuration | IOO | mode cleaner locked | Increased the power exiting the PSL by turning
the half-wave plate after the MOPA, opened
the PSL shutter, and aligned the mode cleaner |
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68
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Tue Nov 6 14:51:03 2007 |
tobin, rob | Update | IOO | Mode cleaner length | Using the Ward-Fricke variant* of the [url=http://ilog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/ilog/pub/ilog.cgi?group=detector&date_to_view=02/14/2004&anchor_to_scroll_to=2004:02:15:00:06:50-daniel]Sigg-Frolov
method[/url], we found the length of the
mode cleaner to be [b]27.0934020183 meters[/b], |
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69
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Tue Nov 6 15:36:03 2007 |
rob | Update | LSC | XARM locked | Easily, after resetting the PSL Uniblitz shutters.
There's no entry from David or Andrey about
the recovery from last week's power outage, |
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70
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Tue Nov 6 15:37:34 2007 |
rob | Configuration | SUS | rampdown script | /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/SUS/rampdown.pl is
now in the crontab for op340m, running every
half-hour at 15&45. It checks the suspension |
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71
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Tue Nov 6 16:48:54 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | scopes on the net | I configured our two 100 MHz Tektronix 3014B
scopes with IP addresses: 131.215.113.24
([url=http://scope0/]scope0[/url]) and 113.215.113.25 |
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72
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Tue Nov 6 18:18:15 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | I broke (and fixed) conlogger | It turns out that not only restart_conlogger,
but also conlogger itself checks to see that
it is running on the right machine. I had |
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73
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Tue Nov 6 23:45:38 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | tektronix scripts! | I cooked up a little script to fetch the data
from the networked Tektronix scope. Example
usage:
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74
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Wed Nov 7 00:51:33 2007 |
andrey, rob, tobin | Configuration | IOO | MC ringdowns | We completed several ringdown measurements
this afternoon; Andrey is currently processing
the data. |
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75
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Wed Nov 7 02:14:08 2007 |
Andrey | Bureaucracy | IOO | More information about MC2 ringdown | As Tobin wrote two hours ago, we (Andrey,
Tobin, Robert) made a series of ringdown
measurements for MC2
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9x |
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76
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Wed Nov 7 09:38:01 2007 |
steve | Update | VAC | rga scan | pd65-m-d2 at cc1 6e-6 torr |
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77
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Wed Nov 7 10:55:21 2007 |
ajw | Configuration | Computers | backup script restarted | Following the reboot of computers on 10/31/07,
the backup script required restart (which
unfortunately "can't" be automated because |
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78
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Wed Nov 7 13:54:44 2007 |
rob | Configuration | IOO | Mode Cleaner transfer function | I performed the same procedure described [url=http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/40]
here[/url], and re-measured the transfer
function of the mode cleaner to see the effect |
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79
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Wed Nov 7 14:01:31 2007 |
waldman | Omnistructure | OMC | Frequency and Intensity noise | One of the biggest problems I had using the
PZT to lock was excessive noise. I did a
little noise hunting and found that the problem |
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80
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Wed Nov 7 14:05:59 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | IOO | MC ringdown | Modeling the mode cleaner as a simple cavity
with all losses lumped together, we expect
the cavity power to be
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81
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Wed Nov 7 16:07:03 2007 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL & IOO trend | 1.5 days of happy psl-ioo with litle bumps
in C1:PSL-126MOPA_HTEMP |
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82
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Thu Nov 8 00:55:44 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Suspension tests | [Sam , Pinkesh]
We tried to measure the transfer functions |
9x |
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83
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Thu Nov 8 11:40:21 2007 |
steve | Update | PEM | particle counts are up | I turned up the psl HEPA filter to 100%
This 4 days plot shows why |
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84
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Thu Nov 8 15:57:53 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | PSL | shelf removed | I removed the sheet metal shelf from the PSL
enclosure, for easier access to the ISS.
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85
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Thu Nov 8 18:44:01 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | PSL | ISS | Tobin, Rob
With the Sense PD blocked, I adjusted the |
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86
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Fri Nov 9 00:01:24 2007 |
waldman | Omnistructure | OMC | OMC mechanical resonances (Tap tap tappy tap) | [Pinkesh, Aidan, Sam]
We did a tap-tap-tappy-tap test of the OMC |
7x |
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87
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Fri Nov 9 00:23:12 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | X and Z resonances | I got a couple of resonance plots going for
now. I am still having trouble getting the
Y measurement going for some reason. I will |
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88
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Fri Nov 9 09:37:55 2007 |
steve | Update | PSL | head temp hiccup | Just an other PSL-126MOPA_HTEMP hiccup.
The water chiller is at 20.00C |
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89
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Fri Nov 9 17:33:33 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | ISS |
The 3.7 MHz is actually on the light. It's
the beat between the 29.5 MHz sidebands and |
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90
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Fri Nov 9 21:36:14 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | FSS | rob, rana
We looked at the FSS a bit today. The most |
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91
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Sun Nov 11 21:05:55 2007 |
rana | HowTo | SUS | MC Touching or not | I wrote a script: [I]SUS/freeswing-mc.csh[/I],
which gives the MC mirrors the appropriate
kicks
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92
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Sun Nov 11 21:21:04 2007 |
rana | HowTo | Computers | New DV | To use the new ligoDV (previously GEO DV)
to look at 40m data, open up a matlab, set
up for mDV as usual,
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93
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Mon Nov 12 10:53:58 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Vertical Transfer functions | [Norna Sam Pinkesh]
These plots were created by injected white |
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94
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Mon Nov 12 14:09:19 2007 |
rob | DAQ | General | tpman dead on fb40m | The testpoint manager was dead on fb40m.
I know I re-started it sometime after the
power outage, so something must have killed |
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95
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Mon Nov 12 15:05:49 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | FSS |
Spent a bit of time fiddling with the FSS
again today. In a not-particularly-systematic |
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96
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Mon Nov 12 15:18:34 2007 |
rob | Update | PSL | ISS |
After John soldered a 3.7 MHz notch filter
onto the ISS board, I took a quick TF and |
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97
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Mon Nov 12 23:44:19 2007 |
John | Update | PSL | ISS | [quote]
After John soldered a 3.7 MHz notch filter
onto the ISS board, I took a quick TF and |
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98
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Tue Nov 13 14:33:40 2007 |
John | Update | PSL | ISS filter | The transfer function from 'In Loop Error
Point Monitor' to TP3 the filter out test
point on the ISS board.
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99
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Wed Nov 14 07:48:38 2007 |
norna | Omnistructure | OMC | OMC Cable dressing | [Snipped from an email]
1) Last Friday Pinkesh and I set the OMC |
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100
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Wed Nov 14 12:33:35 2007 |
tobin | AoG | Environment | construction | The construction crews are running a jack-hammer
right outside of the control room. |
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101
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Wed Nov 14 12:47:19 2007 |
tobin | Update | PSL | ISS | John, Tobin
With John's notch filter installed and the |
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102
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Wed Nov 14 16:54:54 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Much better looking vertical transfer functions | [Norna Pinkesh]
So after Chub did his wonderful mini-surgery |
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