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Entry  Tue Jan 15 10:52:38 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, EY door opened 
    Reply  Tue Jan 15 15:49:47 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, EY door opened EY_OSEMs.png
       Reply  Sat Jan 19 15:33:18 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, ETMY OSEMs faulty Screen_Shot_2019-01-19_at_3.32.35_PM.pngETMY_sensors_1231832635.pdf
          Reply  Tue Jan 22 20:36:53 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, ETMY OSEMs faulty 
             Reply  Wed Jan 23 12:39:18 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, EY chamber work 6x
                Reply  Wed Jan 23 23:12:44 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Prep for FC cleaning IY_level_before.pdf
                   Reply  Thu Jan 24 15:32:31 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Y arm cavity side first contact applied Yarm_FC.pdfOSEMfilter.png
                      Reply  Tue Jan 29 22:12:40 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Alignment prep 
                         Reply  Wed Jan 30 11:54:24 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, More alignment prep IMG_5958.JPGIMG_5962.JPG
                            Reply  Wed Jan 30 19:25:40 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Xarm cavity alignment Xarm.pngXarm_IR.png
                               Reply  Fri Feb 1 01:24:06 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Almost ready for pumpdown tomorrow 
                                  Reply  Fri Feb 1 13:16:50 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Pumpdown 83 underway 
                                     Reply  Fri Feb 1 21:52:57 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Pumpdown 83 underway 
                                  Reply  Fri Feb 1 14:44:14 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Y arm FC cleaning and reinstall IMG_5974.JPGIMG_5986.JPGIMG_5992.JPG
    Reply  Wed Jan 16 16:25:25 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Yarm locked Yarm_locked.png
       Reply  Fri Jan 18 21:34:18 2019, gautam, Update, SUS, Unused optic on EY table IMG_5408.JPG
          Reply  Sat Jan 19 05:07:45 2019, Koji, Update, SUS, Unused optic on EY table 
Message ID: 14424     Entry time: Wed Jan 30 19:25:40 2019     In reply to: 14423     Reply to this: 14425
Author: gautam 
Type: Update 
Category: SUS 
Subject: Xarm cavity alignment 

Squishing cables at the ITMX satellite box seems to have fixed the wandering ITM that I observed yesterday - the sooner we are rid of these evil connectors the better.

I had changed the input pointing of the green injection from EX to mark a "good" alignment of the cavity axis, so I used the green beam to try and recover the X arm alignment. After some tweaking of the ITM and ETM angle bias voltages, I was able to get good GTRX values [Attachment #1], and also see clear evidence of (admittedly weak) IR resonances in TRX [Attachment #2]. I can't see the reflection from ITMX on the AS camera, but I suspect this is because the ITMY cage is in the way. This will likely have to be redone tomorrow after setting the input pointing for the Y arm cavity axis, but hopefully things will converge faster and we can close up sooner. Closing the PSL shutter for now...


I also rebooted the unresponsive c1susaux to facilitate the alignment work tomorrow.

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