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  8081   Wed Feb 13 22:09:26 2013 JenneUpdateAlignmentREFL is not clippedWe need to calculate whether this level
of astigmatism is expected from the new active
TT mirrors, but 
  
  8082   Thu Feb 14 00:10:12 2013 yutaSummaryAlignmentREFL is not clippedLet's wait for astigmatism calculation.

In either case(clipping or astigmatism),
  
  8084   Thu Feb 14 10:42:41 2013 JamieSummaryAlignmentMMT, curved TTs does not explain beam ellipticity at FaradayAfter using alamode to calculate the round-trip
mode of the beam at the Faraday exit after
retro-reflection form the PRM, I'm not able
 T.pdfS.pdf 
  8085   Fri Feb 15 01:41:02 2013 Manasa, YutaSummaryAlignmentIFO aligned and ready for PRMI locking[Yuta, Manasa, Jenne, Jamie, Steve]
IFO aligned and ready for
  
  8086   Fri Feb 15 01:51:43 2013 JenneSummaryAlignmentIFO aligned and ready for PRMI locking 
Yuta and Manasa, you guys are awesome!
Small, inconsequential point: 
  
  8091   Fri Feb 15 20:07:28 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentPOP path set up but AS55 is broken[Manasa, Yuta]

We set up POP camera and POPDC PD,
  
  8099   Mon Feb 18 18:28:01 2013 yutaBureaucracyAlignmentwe are going to pump downWe
will start preparing for pumping down. Main
goal for this is to demonstrate PRFPMI using
  
  8100   Mon Feb 18 21:43:05 2013 KojiUpdateAlignmentPOP path set up but AS55 is brokenI undertook the investigation of the AS55
PD.
I found the PD is not broken.
 AS55.pdf 
  8101   Mon Feb 18 23:41:15 2013 SendhilUpdateAlignmentAligned IPPOS, IPANG and OPLEVS[Yuta, Sendhil]
We aligned IPPOS, IPANG and all OPLEVs
(except for ETMX and SRM).
 IPANGIPPOSoplevs.png 
  8113   Wed Feb 20 01:40:37 2013 ManasaUpdateAlignmentFinal IFO alignment- in progress[Yuta, Sendhil, Jamie, Jenne, Rana]

1. After the MC centering, we tried
  
  8114   Wed Feb 20 03:13:10 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentclipping centering checklistI attached clipping/centering checklist
for the alignment.
Blue
 ClippingCenteringChecklist.pdf 
  8115   Wed Feb 20 10:13:41 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentPRC flashing brighter than last weekAfter in-vac alignment work last night,
PRC is flashing brighter than PRMI alignment
last week.
  
  8116   Wed Feb 20 18:35:42 2013 JenneUpdateAlignmentNew in-vac alignment procedureI have updated the vacuum checklist for
in vacuum alignment.  Please take a
look (https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/vent/checklist)
  
  8117   Wed Feb 20 18:53:48 2013 JenneUpdateAlignmentIFO ready for doors, then pumping[Yuta, Manasa, Sendhil, Jenne, Steve, Jamie,
Koji, Evan]
  
  8118   Wed Feb 20 19:20:50 2013 EvanUpdateAlignmentAS camera alignment[Manasa, Evan]
Manasa and I are trying to get the
AS beam onto the AS camera with a focusing
  
  8119   Wed Feb 20 19:48:16 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentBS table oplev re-arranged[Sendhil, Yuta]

After aligning IFO and putting the
 IFOALIGN_QPDs_OSEMs.png 
  8120   Wed Feb 20 19:58:59 2013 ranaUpdateAlignmentBS table oplev re-arrangedPlease confirm the SRM OL beam is not too
bad and also find where the mis-aligned SRM
puts its beam. WE want to be sure that there
  
  8121   Wed Feb 20 20:15:29 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentSRM oplev statusCurrently, SRM is misaligned in pitch so
that SRM reflected beam hits on the top edge
of SR3 (not on the mirror, but on the cage
  
  8122   Wed Feb 20 20:58:37 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentclipping centering checklistBlue
ones are the ones we checked yesterday.
Green
 ClippingCenteringChecklist.pdf 
  8123   Wed Feb 20 21:12:37 2013 ranaUpdateAlignmentclipping centering checklist 
 Is the beam going towards the
OMC going to cause backscatter because of
  
  8124   Wed Feb 20 21:56:08 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentclipping centering checklistI'm not sure about the OMC situation at
40m. I think there are no direct beam reflected
back into IFO from OMC path. There must be
  
  8157   Mon Feb 25 15:30:29 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentY arm locked, both colors[Koji, Yuta]

We aligned Y arm to Y green and tweaked
  
  8158   Mon Feb 25 17:58:28 2013 ranaUpdateAlignmentY arm locked, both colors 
 That's good news. I was ready
to give up and say we should vent and remove
  
  8162   Mon Feb 25 21:25:14 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentboth arms locked in IR[Jenne, Evan, Yuta]

After Y alignment, X arm is aligned
 QUAD1_1045890588.png 
  8164   Mon Feb 25 22:42:32 2013 yutaSummaryAlignmentcurrent IFO situation[Jenne,Yuta]

Both arms are aligned starting from
 IPANGdrift.png 
  8244   Wed Mar 6 18:51:07 2013 AnnalisaUpdateAlignmentAuxiliary laser installed for FSR and TMS measurement of the PRCWe want to measure the g-factor of the
PRC using the beat note of the main laser
with an auxiliary NPRO laser.
 IMG_3-6-13.JPG 
  8252   Thu Mar 7 18:12:03 2013 yutaUpdateAlignmentInput beam drift ~ 0.1 mrad/h in pitch[Jenne, Manasa, Yuta]

We temporarily centered the beam on
 IPangulardrift.png 
  8260   Fri Mar 8 16:02:52 2013 JenneUpdateAlignmentGetting closer to beam centering on YarmI'm working on getting the input beam centered
on the Yarm optics.  To do this, I measured
the spot positions, move the tip tilts, realign
 YARMdecenter_zoom_8Mar2013.png 
  8262   Fri Mar 8 20:51:00 2013 ManasaUpdateAlignmentInput beam drift - investigation **IMPORTANT**Checking the drift in input pointing
(TT2 is the main suspect)
  
  8267   Mon Mar 11 12:29:25 2013 ManasaUpdateAlignmentInput beam drift - weekend trendI centered ipang and ippos on the QPDs
(using only the steering mirrors) and wanted
to see the drift over the weekend.
 IPANG_drift.png 
  8276   Tue Mar 12 00:58:05 2013 ManasaUpdateAlignmentYarm - Spot positions centered[Jenne, Manasa]

  
  8279   Tue Mar 12 14:02:22 2013 JenneUpdateAlignmentBeam drift - mystery partially solved?Steve just told those of us in the control
room that the custodian who goes into the
IFO room regularly steps on the blue support
  
  16846   Thu May 12 13:46:59 2022 JcUpdateAlignmentPOP Beam[Tega, JC]

Tega and I went in to adjust the
POP being in the ITMX Table. The beam entered
 IMG_0777.jpeg 
  16847   Thu May 12 17:20:08 2022 PacoUpdateAlignmentPOP Beam on CCD[Paco]

Got POP beam centered on camera
and nominally on the two PDs. Attachment
 PXL_20220513_002047233.jpg 
  16851   Fri May 13 14:26:00 2022 JCUpdateAlignmentLO2 Beam[Yehonathan, JC]

Yehonathan and I attempted to align
the LO2 beam today through the BS chamber
  
  16852   Fri May 13 18:42:13 2022 PacoUpdateAlignmentITMX and ITMY sat amp failures[Yuta, Anchal, Paco]

As described briefly by JC, there
were multiple failure modes going during
  
  1984   Fri Sep 11 17:07:45 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringMinor changes to ASS_TOP_PEM screen.There was some uncertainty as to which
channels were being input into the Adaptive
Filtering screen, so I checked it out to
  
  1988   Wed Sep 16 11:58:11 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringNew Filters for Adaptive FilteringWhen Sanjit and I were looking at the adaptive
filtering system on Monday and Friday, we
noticed that turning on the Accelerometers
  
  2001   Fri Sep 25 16:10:17 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringSome progress on OAF, but more still to be done[Jenne, Sanjit]
It seems now that we are able to
get the OAF system to do a pretty good job
 OAF_Running_25Sept2009.jpg 
  2004   Fri Sep 25 19:55:59 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringSubtraction of the microseism using Adaptive Filtering![Rana, Jenne]
The OAF system did something useful
today!  Attached is a plot.  Black
 OAF_running_WORKING_25Sept2009.png 
  2029   Wed Sep 30 17:49:21 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringNew UP/DOWN scripts for OAF[Sanjit, Jenne]
The up and down scripts accessible
from the OAF (still C1:ASS-TOP) screen are
  
  2054   Mon Oct 5 18:34:26 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringAttempts to take a TF of the OAF system[Jenne, Sanjit]
As per Matt's instructions in his
OAF document (elog
 OAF_TF_CORRexc_EMPHout_2.png 
  2058   Tue Oct 6 11:13:53 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringAttempts to take a TF of the OAF system

    
        
  
  2061   Wed Oct 7 03:49:49 2009 ranaUpdateAdaptive FilteringAttempts to take a TF of the OAF system Here's a plot of the spectra of the
seismometers and MCL. The coherence shows
which axes are aligned right now: MC1_X is
 Untitled.png 
  2063   Wed Oct 7 07:42:55 2009 ranaUpdateAdaptive FilteringAttempts to take a TF of the OAF systemI remeasured
the OAF time delay using the OAF-TF template
  
  2065   Wed Oct 7 19:23:49 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive Filtering(Final?) PEM cabling changes

    
        
  
  2066   Wed Oct 7 20:32:21 2009 ranaUpdateAdaptive Filteringextra delay and noise in PEM -> ASS/OAF system[Rana, Jenne]
There is some craziness going on
with the delay in the PEM path for the OAF. 
 a.gif 
  2074   Fri Oct 9 03:53:56 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive FilteringRemaking the ASSThe c1ass computer, which is now used for
the OAF system, has many remnants from the
days when it was actually used as an ASS. 
  
  2116   Mon Oct 19 11:31:55 2009 JenneUpdateAdaptive Filteringextra delay and noise in PEM -> ASS/OAF system

    
        
 PEM-timing_19Oct2009.png 
  2121   Mon Oct 19 19:37:39 2009 Sanjit, JenneUpdateAdaptive Filteringextra delay and noise in PEM -> ASS/OAF systemRana pointed out that the delay may be
caused by the 110B DAQ, as it integrates
over 2ms (5 clock cycles at 2048Hz on the
 PEM_timingDealy_19OCT09_MCL2PEM2.png 
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