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11550
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Mon Aug 31 14:15:23 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Measured the MC_F whitening poles/zeroes |
I measured the 15 Hz zero and the 150 Hz pole for the whitening filter channels of the Generic Pentek board in the IOO rack. The table below gives these zero/pole pairs for each of the 8 channels of the board.
channel |
zero [Hz] |
pole [Hz] |
Chan |
1 |
15.02 |
151.05 |
C1:ASC-POP_QPD_YAW |
2 |
15.09 |
150.29 |
C1:ASC-POP_QPD_PIT |
3 |
14.98 |
150.69 |
C1:ASC-POP_QPD_SUM |
4 |
14.91 |
147.65 |
C1:ALS-TRX |
5 |
15.03 |
151.19 |
C1:ALS-TRY |
6 |
15.01 |
150.51 |
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7 |
14.95 |
150.50 |
C1:IOO-MC_L |
8 |
15.03 |
150.93 |
C1:IOO-MC_F |
Here is a plot of one of the measured transfer functions,

and the measured data is attached here: Data.zip
EQ: I've added the current channels going through this board.
More importantly, I found that the jumpers on channel one (QPD X) were set to no whitening, in contrast to all other channels. Thus, the POP QPD YAW signals we've been using for who knows how long have been distorted by dewhitening. This has now been fixed.
Hence, the current state of this board is that the first whitening stage is disabled for all channels and the second stage is engaged, with the above parameters. |
Attachment 1: Data.zip
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11549
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Mon Aug 31 09:36:05 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | MISO Wiener Filtering of MCL |
MISO Wiener filters for MCL kept the mode cleaner locked for a good 8+ hours.

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11548
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Mon Aug 31 07:49:11 2015 |
ericq | Update | IOO | MC2 -> MCL Actuator TF |
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I think what happened here is you forgot to undo the MC_F whitening filter which is the Generic Pentek Interface board next to the MC servo board. I suggest you guys measure this on Monday so you can correctly estimate the MC length noise. And then perhaps undo the whitening in the anti-whitening filter of this filter bank so that the signal which is recorded is in units of kHz.
This should allow your online subtraction filter to be more correct: roughly speaking, the phase shift below a pole or zero is going to be 45*(f/fp) deg. Since we expect there to be 2 zeros at 15 Hz, it would be 9 deg phase shift at 1.5 Hz and limit the subtraction to ~80%.
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While it is true that the whitening filter was incorrectly handled, I don't think this should change the subtraction performance since the MC_L data used for the Wiener filter training was also taken without undoing the whitening filter. |
11547
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Sun Aug 30 23:47:02 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | MISO Wiener Filtering of MCL |
I decided to give MISO Wiener filtering a try again. This time around I managed to get working filters. The overall performance of these MISO filters is much better than the SISO I constructed on elog:11541 .
The procedure I used to develope the SISO filters did not work well for the construction of these MISO filters. I found a way, even more systematic than what I had before to work around Vectfit's annoyances and get the filters in working condition. I'll explain it in another eLOG post.
Anyways, here are the MISO filters for MCL using the T240-X and T240-Y as witnesses:

Now the theoretical offline prediction:



The online subtractions for MCL, YARM and XARM. I show the SISO subtraction for reference.

And the subtraction performance:

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11546
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Sun Aug 30 13:55:09 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Summary pages MCF |
The summary pages show the effect of the MCL FF on MCF (left Aug 26, right Aug 30):

I'm not too sure what you meant by plotting the X & Y arm control signals with only the MCL filter ON/OFF. Do you mean plotting the control signals with ONLY the T-240Y MCL FF filter on/off? The one that reduced noise at 1Hz?
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11545
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Sun Aug 30 13:31:48 2015 |
rana | Update | IOO | MCL Wiener Feedforward Final Results |
I'm not totally sure, but by eyeball, this seems like the best online MCL reduction we've ever had. Nice work.
The 3 Hz performance is the same as usual, but we've never had such good 1 Hz reduction in the online subtraction.
I would like to see a plot of the X & Y arm control signals with only the MCL filter ON/OFF. This would tell us how much of the arm signals were truly frequency noise. |
11544
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Sun Aug 30 12:20:08 2015 |
ericq | Update | IOO | MCL Wiener Feedforward Final Results |
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Big thumbnails? Could it have been this? elog:11498.
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Ignacio is correct; I forgot to shrink the value back down after testing the PDF thumbnails. Default thumbnail size is now back to 600px. |
11543
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Sun Aug 30 10:57:29 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | MCL Wiener Feedforward Final Results |
Big thumbnails? Could it have been this? elog:11498.
Anyways, I fixed the plots and plotted an RMS that can actaully be read in my original eLOG. I'll see what can be done with the MC1 and MC2 Wilcoxon (z-channel) for online subtractions. |
11542
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Sun Aug 30 00:03:13 2015 |
rana | Update | IOO | MCL Wiener Feedforward Final Results |
Somehow it seems like the ELOG makes all of the thumbnails way too big by default. Did we get some sneaky upgrade recently?
I would only plot your results below 50 Hz. We don't care about the RMS at high frequencies and it can make the RMS misleading.
We definitely need to include one vertical Wilconox at each MC chamber so that it can subtract all of that junk at 10-20 Hz. |
11541
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Sat Aug 29 04:53:24 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | MCL Wiener Feedforward Final Results |
After fighting relentlessly with the mode cleaner, I believe I have achieved final results.
I have mostly been focusing on Wiener filtering MCL with a SISO Wiener filter for a reason, simplicity. This simplicity allowed me to understand the dificulties of getting a filter to work on the online system properly and to develope a systematic way of making this online Wiener filters. The next logical step after achieving my final SISO Wiener filter using the T240-X seismometer as witness for MCL (see elog:11535) and learning how to produce good conditioned Wiener filters was to give MISO Wiener filtering of MCL a try.
I tried performing some MISO filtering on MCL using the T240-X and T240-Y as witnesses but the procedure that I used to develope the Wiener filters did not work as well here. I made the decision to ditch it and use some of the training data I saved when the SISO (T240-X) filter was runing overnight to develope another SISO Wiener filter for MCL but this time using T240-Y as witness. I will compare how much more we gain when doing MISO Wiener filtering compared to just a bunch of SISO filtering in series, maybe a lot, or little.
I left both filters running overnight in order to get trainining data for arm and WFS yaw and pitch subtractions.
The SISO filters for MCL are shown below:

The theoretical FIR and IIR subtractions using the above filters:

Running the filters on the online system gave the following subtractions for MCL and YARM:


Comparing the subtractions using only the T240-X filter versus the T240-X and T240-Y:


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11540
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Fri Aug 28 20:20:26 2015 |
rana | Update | PEM | Gur interface box cable |
To help find out if Steve really melted the inside of our precious seismometer, lets hook it up using the handheld seismo wand and see if it produces volts when we shake the ground.
Also, please stop using names like GurA or Gur1 or GurSuzy. We have GurX and GurY because they are at those ends. Anything else is confusing. |
11539
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Fri Aug 28 20:15:49 2015 |
rana | Update | IOO | MC2 -> MCL Actuator TF |
qQuote: |
I made a measurement of the MC2 actuator transfer function by injecting noise from 1-100Hz into LSC_MC2_EXC for about 15 minutes, then estimating the TF from MC2_OUT to IOO_MC_L with CSD/PSD. The inverse of this TF will be applied to their Wiener target data to give us the direct subtration filter we want.
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I think what happened here is you forgot to undo the MC_F whitening filter which is the Generic Pentek Interface board next to the MC servo board. I suggest you guys measure this on Monday so you can correctly estimate the MC length noise. And then perhaps undo the whitening in the anti-whitening filter of this filter bank so that the signal which is recorded is in units of kHz.
This should allow your online subtraction filter to be more correct: roughly speaking, the phase shift below a pole or zero is going to be 45*(f/fp) deg. Since we expect there to be 2 zeros at 15 Hz, it would be 9 deg phase shift at 1.5 Hz and limit the subtraction to ~80%. |
11538
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Fri Aug 28 19:05:53 2015 |
rana | Update | IOO | IMC Tweak |
Well, green looks better than blue, but it makes the PCDRIVE go high, which means its starting to saturate the EOM drive. So we can't just maximize the phase margin in the PZT/EOM crossover. We have to take into account the EOM drive spectrum and its RMS.
Also, your gain bump seems suspicious. See my TF measurements of the crossover in December. Maybe you were saturating the EOM in your TF ?
Lets find out what's happening with FSS servos over in Bridge and then modify ours to be less unstable. |
11537
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Fri Aug 28 17:04:12 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | Gur interface box cable |
Ara! Onara suru tsu-mori datta keh-do, un-chi ga de-chatta...
Quote: |
Quote: |
As reported previously, the transfer functions of the channels look fine. (i.e. All channels almost identical.)
I checked the chain from the unit input to the DAQ BNC connectors. They were all OK.
Today I have been checking the signals on the unit with the long DB37 cables connected.
I could not see anything on the Gur2 channels on the board. I looked at the DB37 for Gur2 and felt something is wrong.
I opened the housing of the cable and realized that all the pins are not fully inserted.
The wires were crimped improperly and prevents them to be fully inserted.
=> We need to redo the crimping to insert them.
=> We need to check the other side too.
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I'm making a new long cable. Both connector ends of this X arm long cable were terrible. It was removed from the cable tray yesterday.
The Y arm Guralp is running fine. The interface box is open in front of 1X1 on a cart and it is alive! Please be aware of it !
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The new cable was made this way:
Pins were located with ohm meter for locations and both ends were cut off.The Belden 1424A cable than was soldered to DB37 and Guralp circular connector " IKPT06F16-26S-ND "
This cable will connect the ADC interface box CCD# DO 60506 to Guralp seismometer at the sout end.
The Guralp's each 3 axies will be connected through a twisted pair to the differential input op amp
Gur ouput vertical axis + - on circular connector A, B to DB37 pin 1 &20
Gur output N/S axis + - on circular connector C, D to DB37 pin 2 & 21
Gur output E/W axis + - on circular connector E, F to DB37 pin 3 & 22
Power +12 VDC from DB37 pin 29 to Gur circular connector pin c (lower case)
Power -12 VDC from DB37 pin 24 to Gur circular connector pin M Note: this connection was absent at the first test of this cable!
Ground from DB37 pin 10 to Gur circular connector pin b (lower case)
Summery: I may destored the opamp at the Guralp A at the south end.
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Attachment 1: fixedNewLongCable.png
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11536
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Fri Aug 28 02:20:35 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | PRFPMI and MCL FF |
A day late but here it is.
Eric and I turned on my SISO MCL Wiener filter elog:11535 during his PRFPMI 40min lock. We looked at the CARM_IN and CARM_OUT signals during the lock and with the MCL FF on/off. Here is the spectra:


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11535
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Fri Aug 28 00:59:55 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Final SISO FF Wiener Filter for MCL |
This is my final SISO Wiener filter for MCL that uses the T240-X seismo as its witness.
The main difference between this filter and the one on elog:11532 is the actual 1/f rolloff this filter pocesses. My last filter had a pair of complex zeroes at 2kHz, that gave the filter some unusual behavior at high frequencies, thanks Vectfit. This filter has 10 poles and 8 zeroes, something Vectfit doesn't allow for and needs to be done manually.
The nice thing about this filter is the fact that Eric and I turned this filter on during his 40 min PRFPMI lock last night, Spectra for this is coming soon.
This filter lives on the static Wiener path on the OAF machine, MCL to MC2, filter bank 7.
Anyways, the usual plots are shown below.
Filter:
T240-X (SISO)

Training data + Predicted FIR and IIR subtraction:
Online subtraction results:(High freq. stuff shown for noise injection evaluation of the filter)
MCL
YARM


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11534
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Thu Aug 27 04:23:04 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | PRFPMI is back |
Got to a 40 minute lock tonight. All other locks broke because of me poking something.
I redid some sensing excitations, right after carefully measuring the CARM OLG at its excitation frequency, so I can get at the open loop PD response.
I also used a MCL feedforward filter of Ignacio's which did not inject any observable noise into the CARM error signal during PRFPMI lock. He will make some elog about this. |
11533
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Thu Aug 27 02:09:14 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | AUX X Laser Current Changed |
I spent some time tonight chasing down the cause of huge RIN in the X green PDH transmitted light, which I had started seeing on Monday. This was preventing robust locking, since the ALS sensing noise was ~10x worse above 50Hz, thus making the AO transition much flakier (though, impressively, not impossible!)
I went down to the X end, and found that turning the laser diode current down by 0.1A (from 2.0 to 1.9) smoothed things out completely. Unfortunately, this causes the power to drop, from GTRX of 0.45 to 0.3, but the ALSX sensitivity is unchanged, as compared with the recenent "out of loop" template.
This also seems to have changed the temperatures of the good modes, as no beat was evident at the previously good temperature. Beats were found at +5400 and +10500 counts on the slow servo offset slider; I suspect the third lies around the edge of the DAC range which is why I couldn't uncover it. In any case, I've parked it at 10500 for now, and will continue locking; nailing it down more precisely and offloading the slider offset to the laser controller will happen during daytime work... |
11532
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Thu Aug 27 01:41:41 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Triply Improved SISO (T240-X) FF of MCL |
Earlier today I constructed yet another SISO filter for MCL. The one thing that stands out about this filter is its strong roll off . This prevents high frequency noise injection into YARM. The caviat, filter performance suffered quite a bit, but there is subtraction going on.
I have realized that Vectfit lacks the ability of constraining the fits it produces, (AC coupling, rolloff, etc) even with very nitpicky weighting. So the way I used vectfit to produce this filter will be explained in a future eLOG, I think it might be promising.
Anyways, the usual plots are shown below.
Filter:
T240-X (SISO)

Training data + Predicted FIR and IIR subtraction:
Online subtraction results:(High freq. stuff shown for noise injection evaluation of the filter)
MCL
YARM

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11531
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Tue Aug 25 16:39:06 2015 |
Steve | Update | safety | safety training |
Alessandra Marrocchesi received 40m specific basic safety training yesteday. |
11530
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Tue Aug 25 16:33:31 2015 |
Ignacio, Steve | Configuration | PEM | Seismometer enclosure copper foil progress |
Steve ordered about two weeks ago a roll of 0.5 mm thick copper foil to be used for the inside of the seismometer cans. The foil was then waterjet cut by someone in Burbank to the right dimensions (in two pieces, a side and a bottom for each of the three cans).
Today, we glued the copper foil (sides only) inside the three seismometer cans. We used HYSOL EE4215/HD3561(Data Sheet) as our glue. It is a "high impact, low viscocity, room temperature cure casting" that offers "improved thermal conductivity and increased resistance to heat and thermal shock." According to Steve, this is used in electronic boards to glue components when you want it to be thermal conductive.
We are going to finish this off tomorrow by gluing the bottom foil to the cans. The step after this involves soldering the side to the bottow and where the side connects. We have realized that the thermal conductivity of the solder that we are using is only ~50. This is 8 times smaller than that of copper and wil probably limit how good a temperature gradient we will have.
Some action shots,




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11529
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Tue Aug 25 16:09:54 2015 |
ericq | Update | IOO | IMC Tweak |
A little more information about the IMC loop tweak...
I increased the overall IMC loop gain by 4dB, and decreased the FAST gain (which determines the PZT/EOM crossover) by 3dB. This changed the AO transfer function from the blue trace to the green trace in the first plot. This changed the CARM loop open loop TF shape from the unfortunate blue shape to the more pleasing green shape in the second plot. The red trace is the addition of one super boost.
 
Oddly, these transfer functions look a bit different than what I measured in March (ELOG 11167), which itself differed from the shaping done December of 2014 (ELOG 10841).
I haven't yet attempted any 1F handoff of the PRMI since relocking, but back when Jenne and I did so in April, the lock was definitely less stable. My suspicion is that we may need more CARM supression; we never computed the loop gain requirement that ensures that the residual CARM fluctuations witnessed by, say, REFL55 are small enough to use as a reliable PRMI sensor.
I should be able to come up with this with data from last night. |
Attachment 1: imcTweak.pdf
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Attachment 2: CARM_TF.pdf
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11528
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Tue Aug 25 04:15:51 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | PRFPMI is back |
More PRFPMI locks tonight. Right now, it's been locked for 22+ minutes, though with the PRMI still on 3F signals. I think the MC2/AO crossover needs some reshaping; there's a whole bunch of noise injected into CARM around 600 Hz, which is where the two paths differ by 180deg. (Addendum: broke lock at ~27 minutes, 4:16AM)
For most of this lock, sensing matrix excitations have been running for daytime analysis.
The nominal IMC loop gain / EOM crossover were making the AO path very marginal. I've adjusted the nominal settings and autolocker scripts.
There was some weird behavior of X green PDH earlier... Broadband RIN seen in ALS-TRX, coherent with the DC output of the beat PD, so really on the light. I fiddled with the end setup, and it mostly went away, though I didn't intentionally change anything. Disconcerting. |
11527
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Mon Aug 24 16:46:49 2015 |
ericq | Update | SUS | ETMY Oplev laser power is falling |
Repeated for all optics, ETMY seems like the only one sharply dropping for now (PRM is all over the place and hard to gauge, since we often leave it partially- or mis-aligned):

Hacky bits:
Bash:
find /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2015 -wholename "*00:0*"
| xargs ack --nogroup "OL_SUM_OUT16 1"
| grep -v 'SUS-MC'
| sed -e 's/.*2015/2015/g' -e 's/\/c1.*C1:SUS-/, /g' -e 's/_OL.*\([0-9]\..*$\)/, \1/g' -e 's/\//-/g'
| sort | uniq > allOL.txt
qontrols@pianosa|~ > head allOL.txt
2015-Apr-10-00:07, BS, 1.146766113281250e+03
2015-Apr-10-00:07, ETMX, 1.597261328125000e+04
2015-Apr-10-00:07, ETMY, 4.331762207031250e+03
2015-Apr-10-00:07, ITMX, 6.488521484375000e+03
2015-Apr-10-00:07, ITMY, 1.387590234375000e+04
2015-Apr-10-00:07, PRM, 8.352053833007812e+02
2015-Apr-10-00:07, SRM, 6.099560928344727e+01
2015-Apr-1-00:07, BS, 1.180478149414062e+03
2015-Apr-1-00:07, ETMX, 1.584842480468750e+04
Python:
olsum = pd.read_csv('allOL.txt',parse_dates=True, names=['Date','Optic','Sum'])
olsum['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(olsum['Date']) # Automatic parsing didn't work for some reason
olpivot = olsum.pivot(index='Date',columns='Optic',values='Sum')
olpivot.plot()
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Attachment 1: OLsum_trend.pdf
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11526
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Mon Aug 24 16:10:07 2015 |
ericq | Update | SUS | ETMY Oplev laser power is falling |
Today I noticed the box around the ETMY oplev sum flashing red, as it dipped below 1k. I don't recall seeing this recently, so I wanted to look up the history.
However, we've been having trouble with our minute (and longer) trend data, so I had to hack it out a bit... Here is the unfortunate result:

I think we can be fairly confident that this is not due to alignment drifts, we generally keep the QPD reasonably well centered. I also recentered it today, and the counts remained at ~1k.
Details of the hack that got me this data:
I ended up looking at the BURT snapshots from every night at midnight, which report a number for ETMY_OL_SUM_OUT16, and making a text file with dates and values with the following BASH spaghetti:
find /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2015 -wholename "*00*/*scy*" |xargs ack --nogroup "ETMY_OL_SUM_OUT16 1" | sed -e 's/.*2015/2015/g' -e 's/\/c1.*\([0-9]\..*$\)/, \1/g' -e 's/\//-/g' > ETMYsum.txt
This produces a file full of unsorted lines like: 2015-Aug-23-00:07, 1.106459228515625e+03
The python package pandas is good at parsing dates and automatically plotting time series:
olsum = pandas.read_csv('ETMYsum.txt', index_col=0, parse_dates=True)
olsum.plot()
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Attachment 1: ETMYsum_trend.pdf
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11525
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Mon Aug 24 14:05:47 2015 |
ericq | Update | SUS | EricG Investigating L2A |
This afternoon, I showed Eric Gustafson some of the basics of making swept sine measurements with DTT. We turned off the f2a filters and oplev damping on the BS and made a cursory measurement of the transfer function from position drive to the oplev signals.
He will be in the lab periodically to continue this line of investigations. |
11524
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Sat Aug 22 15:48:32 2015 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Arm locking recovery |
As per Ignacio's request, I restored the arm locking.
- MC WFS relief
- Slow DC restored to ~0V
- Turned off DARM/CARM
- XARM/YARM turned on
- XARM/YARM ASS& Offset offloading |
11523
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Fri Aug 21 17:15:13 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | Gur interface box |
Quote: |
As reported previously, the transfer functions of the channels look fine. (i.e. All channels almost identical.)
I checked the chain from the unit input to the DAQ BNC connectors. They were all OK.
Today I have been checking the signals on the unit with the long DB37 cables connected.
I could not see anything on the Gur2 channels on the board. I looked at the DB37 for Gur2 and felt something is wrong.
I opened the housing of the cable and realized that all the pins are not fully inserted.
The wires were crimped improperly and prevents them to be fully inserted.
=> We need to redo the crimping to insert them.
=> We need to check the other side too.
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I'm making a new long cable. Both connector ends of this X arm long cable were terrible. It was removed from the cable tray yesterday.
The Y arm Guralp is running fine. The interface box is open in front of 1X1 on a cart and it is alive! Please be aware of it ! |
11522
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Fri Aug 21 08:38:37 2015 |
Steve | Update | IOO | PMC locked |
PMC needed to be locked manually. |
Attachment 1: PMClocked.png
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11521
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Thu Aug 20 18:08:28 2015 |
Ignacio | Frogs | 40m upgrading | Fatality. Something broke. |

So I made coffee at 1547 and was astonished to find the above. Its a sad, very sad day.
At first I thought that something (a gravity wave?) or someone, accidentally hit the thing and it fell and broke. But Koji told me that the janitor was cleaning around the thing and it did indeed fell accidentally. |
11520
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Thu Aug 20 11:31:55 2015 |
Koji | Update | PEM | Gur interface box |
As reported previously, the transfer functions of the channels look fine. (i.e. All channels almost identical.)
I checked the chain from the unit input to the DAQ BNC connectors. They were all OK.
Today I have been checking the signals on the unit with the long DB37 cables connected.
I could not see anything on the Gur2 channels on the board. I looked at the DB37 for Gur2 and felt something is wrong.
I opened the housing of the cable and realized that all the pins are not fully inserted.
The wires were crimped improperly and prevents them to be fully inserted.
=> We need to redo the crimping to insert them.
=> We need to check the other side too. |
Attachment 1: IMG_1958.JPG
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11519
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Thu Aug 20 11:09:10 2015 |
rana | Update | IOO | some points about seismic FF |
- When plotting the subtraction performance, we mainly care about the 0.5 - 10 Hz band, so we care about the RMS in this band. Don't integrate over the whole band.
- When calculating the Wiener filter, you must use the pre-weighting so as to not let the Wiener residual be dominated by the out of band signals. We don't want the filter to try to do anything outside of the 0.5 - 10 Hz band.
- Somehow, we want to assign a penalty for the filter to have high frequency gain. We do NOT want to slap on an ad-hoc low pass filter. The point of the Wiener filtering is to make the optimum.
- What is the reason for the poor filter performance from 0.5 - 2 Hz ? If we use the frequency domain (Dmass) subtraction technique, we can do better, so there's some inefficiency in this process.
- we're getting too much of the 3 Hz stack mode coupling into MCL. I think this means that our damping filters should be using RG around the suspension eigenmodes rather than just simple velocity damping. We had this years ago, but it caused some weird interaction with the angular loops...to be puzzled out.
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11518
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Thu Aug 20 02:31:09 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | PRFPMI is back |
PRFPMI locking has been revived.
I've had 6 5min+ locks so far; arm powers usually hit ~125 for a recycling gain of about 7; visibility is about 75%
The locking script takes a little under 4 minutes to take you from POX/POY lock to PRFPMI if you don't have to stop and adjust anything.
At Koji's suggestion, I used digital REFL11 instead of CM_SLOW, which got me to a semistable lock with some RF, at which time I could check the CM_SLOW situtation. It seemed like the whitening Binary IO switch got out of sync with the digital FM status somehow...
I've been making the neccesary changes to the carm_cm_up script. I also added a small script which uses the magnitude of the I and Q signals to set the phase tracker gain automatically based on some algebra Koji posted in an ELOG some years ago.
The RF transition seems much smoother now, most likely due to the improved PRC and ALS stability. In fact, it is possible to hold at arm powers of >100 solely on the digital servos; I don't think we were able to do this before until the AO had kicked in.
Right now I'm losing lock when trying to engage the CARM super boost. I also haven't switched the PRMI over to 1F signals yet. Would be good to hook the SR785 back up for a loop TF, but I'll stop here for tonight since our SURFs are presenting bright and early tomorrow morning. |
Attachment 1: lock.pdf
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11517
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Wed Aug 19 07:58:25 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | Gur interface box |
Koji and Steve,
We took transferfunctions of each channel yesterday. They were identical ?. I will check the cables from ADC to DAQ next. |
Attachment 1: GurADCbox.jpg
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11516
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Wed Aug 19 01:45:10 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Doubly Improved SISO (T240-X) FF of MCL |
Today I tried and doubly-improved SISO FF filter on MCL. This filter has a stronger rolloff than the previous SISO filters I have tried. The rolloff most definelty helped towards reducing the ammount of noise being injected into YARM. Below is the usual stuff:
Filter:
T240-X (SISO)

Training data + Predicted FIR and IIR subtraction:

Online subtraction results:
MCL
YARM
MCL TRANS
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11515
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Wed Aug 19 00:55:35 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | LSC-YARM-EXC to LSC-YARM-IN1 TF measurement + error analysis |
Yesterday, Rana, Jessica and I measured the Transfer function from LSC-YARM-EXC to LSC-YARM-IN1.
The plot below shows the magnitude and the phase of the measured transfer function. It also shows the normalized standard error in the estimated transfer function magnitude; the same quantity can be applied to the phase, only in this case it is interpreted as its standard deviation (not normalized). It is given by
![\frac{[1-\gamma_{xy}^2(f)]^{1/2}}{|\gamma_{xy}(f)|\sqrt{2n_{d}}}](http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Cfrac%7B%5B1-%5Cgamma_%7Bxy%7D%5E2%28f%29%5D%5E%7B1/2%7D%7D%7B%7C%5Cgamma_%7Bxy%7D%28f%29%7C%5Csqrt%7B2n_%7Bd%7D%7D%7D)
where is the ordinary coherence function and is the number of averages used at each point of the estimate, in the case here we used 9 averages. This quantity is of interest to us in order to understand how the accuracy of transfer function measurement affects the ammount of subtraction that can be achieved online.

Since this transfer function is flat from 1-10 Hz (out of phase by 180 deg), this means that we can apply our IIR wiener filters direclty into YARM without taking into account the TF by prefiltering our witnesses with it. Of course this is not the case if we care about subtractions at frequencies higher than 10 Hz, but since we are dealing with seismic noise this is not a concern.
The coherence for this transfer function measurement is shown below,

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Tue Aug 18 11:16:17 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | Gur interface box is wonky |
The Guralp ADC interface box D060506 is ready for inspection. It is in front of 1X1 with open top and running.
Obviously c7 as 1 miroF cap is missing.
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Let's dismantle the I/F unit from the rack and connect the cable with the lid open.
We need to trace the signal.
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Tue Aug 18 03:56:09 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | locking efforts |
Now that the updated ALS is stable, and the PRC angular FF is revived, I've been working on relocking PRFPMI. While the RMS arm fluctuations are surely smaller than they used to be, there is no noticible difference to the ears when buzzing around resonance, but this doesn't really mean much.
Frustratingly, I am not able to stably blend in any RF CARM error signal into the slow length control path (i.e. CARM_B). Bringing AS55 Q into DARM with the 20:0 integrator is working fine, but we really need to supress CARM to get anywhere. I'm not sure why this isn't working; poking around into the settings that were used when we were regularly locking didn't turn up any differences as far as I could tell. Investigations continue...
Some minor changes to the locking script were made, to account for the increased ALS displacement sensitivity from the longer delay line.
Since the ALS is now in a fairly stable state, I've updated the calibrated PSD template at /users/Templates/ALS/ALS_outOfLoop_Ref.xml , and added some coherence plots for some commonly coupled quantities (beat signal amplitude, IR error signal, green PDH error signal and green transmission).

 
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Mon Aug 17 17:48:12 2015 |
Koji | Update | PEM | Wasps obliterated maybe... |
We found the same wasp in the 40m. Megan found it walking behind Steve desk! |
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Sun Aug 16 23:26:40 2015 |
Eve | Update | General | Gaussianity tests |
I've continued to work on my Gaussianity tests for S5 L1 data.
Following the statistical measure in Ando et al. (2003), I've calculated the Laguerre coefficient, c2, for all frequencies present in my S5 L1 PSD as a metric of Gaussianity. When c2 is zero, the distribution is Gaussian. A positive c2 corresponds to glitchy noise, while a negative c2 suggests stationary noise.
Below is a plot displaying variation in c2 for this PSD:

By observing the c2 value and histogram of distribution of various PSD values at a given frequency, we can elucidate statistical differences in the Gaussian nature of noise at that frequency which are unclear in the standard PSD. |
Attachment 1: Gaussianity_noc1.png
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Sat Aug 15 02:10:35 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | MCL FF => YARM FF |
In my last post I calculated the different subtractions (offline) that could be done to YARM alone just to get a sense of what seismometers were better witnesses for the Wiener filter calculation.
In this eLOG I show what subtractions can be done when the MCL has FF on (as well as Eric's PRC FF), with the SISO filter described on elog:11496.
The plot below shows what can be done offline,

What is great about this results is that the T240-X and T240-Y channels are plenty enough to mitigate any remaining YARM seismic noise but also to get rid of that nasty peak at 55 Hz induced by the MCL FF filter.
The caviat, I haven't measured the TF for the ETMY actuator to YARM control signal. I need to do this and recompute the FIR filters with the prefiltered witnesses in order to move on to the IIR converions and online FF!
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Fri Aug 14 23:49:34 2015 |
Koji | Summary | General | B&K Shaker fixed |
I fixed a shaker that was claimed to be broken. I had to cut the rubber membrane to open the head.
Once it was opened, the cause of the trouble was obvious. The soldering joint could not put up with the motion of the head.
It is interesting to see that the spring has the damping layer between the metal sheets.
After the repair the DC resistance was measured. It was 1.9Ohm. The side of the shaker chassis said "3.5Ohm, Max 15VA". So it can take more than 4A (wow).
I gave 2A DC from the bench top supply and turn the current on and off. I could confirm the head was moving.
I'll claim the use of this shaker for the seismometer development. |
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Fri Aug 14 21:40:26 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | Quick static offline subtractions of YARM |
Plotte below are the resultant subtractions for YARM using different witness configurations,

The best subtraction happens with all the channels of both the GUR1 and T240 seismometers, but one gets just as good subtraction without using the z channels as witnesses.
Also, why is the T240 seismometer better at subtracting noise for YARM compared to what GUR1 alone can acomplish? Using only the X and Y channels for the T240 gave the third best subtraction(purple trace).
My plan for now is as follows:
1) Measure the transfer function from the ETMY actuator to the YARM control signal
2) Collect data for YARM when FF for MCL is on in order to see what kind of subtractions can be done. |
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Fri Aug 14 17:20:01 2015 |
Jenne | Update | PEM | Gur interface box is wonky |
IIRC, the Guralp box's 3rd set of channels do not have all of the modifications that were made on channels 1 and 2. |
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Fri Aug 14 12:10:08 2015 |
Koji | Update | PEM | Gur interface box is wonky |
Let's dismantle the I/F unit from the rack and connect the cable with the lid open.
We need to trace the signal.
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Fri Aug 14 09:07:45 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | Gur interface box is wonky |
Atm1, Before cable swap
Atm2, The long cables were swapped at the input of the interface box.
We can conclude that the problem is in the interface box
I wonder if interface box input 3 is wired? |
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Thu Aug 13 23:57:33 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | YARM coherence plots |
I took data from 1123495750 to 1123498750 GPS time (Aug 13 at 3AM, 50 mins of data) for C1:LSC-YARM_OUT_DQ, and all T240 and GUR1 channels.
Here is the PSD of the YARM_OUT, showing the data that I will use to train the FIR filter:

Coherence plots for YARM and all channels of T240 and GUR1 sesimometers are shown below. This will help determine what regions to preweight the best before computing FIR filter. They also show how GUR1 is back to work compared to those of elog:11457.


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Thu Aug 13 20:32:07 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | LSC | Working towards YARM FF |
The mode cleaner FF static filtering is by no means done. More work has to be done in order to succefuly implement it, by the means of fine tuning the IIR fit and finding better MISO Wiener filters.
I have begun to look at implementing FF to the YARM cavity for several reasons.
1) Even if the mode cleaner FF is set up as best as we can, there will still be seismic noise coupling into the arm cavities.
2) YARM is in the way of the beam path. When locking the IFO, one locks YARM first, then XARM. This means that it makes sense to look at YARM FF first rather than XARM.
3) XARM FF can't be done now since GUR2 is sketchy.
I'm planning on using this eLOG entry to document my Journey and Adventures (Chapter 2: YARM) to the OPTIMAL land of zero-seismic-noise (ZSN) at the 40m telescope.
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Thu Aug 13 12:06:39 2015 |
Jessica | Summary | IOO | Better predicted subtraction did not work as well Online |
Yesterday I adjusted the preweighting of my IIR fit to the transfer function of MC2, and also managed to reduce the number of poles and zeros from 8 to 6, giving a smoother rolloff. The bode plots are pictured here:


The predicted IIR subtraction was very close to the predicted FIR subtraction, so I thought these coefficients would lead to a better online filter.

However, the actual subtraction of the MCL was not as good and noise was injected into the Y arm.
 
The final comparison of the subtraction factors between the online and offline data showed that the preweighting, while it improved the offline subtraction, needs more work to improve the online subtraction also.

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Wed Aug 12 22:33:36 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | IOO | Re-measured MC2 -> MCL TF |
Since I will need to do transfer function measurements in order to implement FF for the arms and the MC2's yaw and pitch channels, I decided to practice this by replicating the transfer function measurement Eric did for MC2 to MCL. I followed his procedure and the data that I aquired for the TF looked as shown below,

About five minutes of data were taken (0.05 Hz resolution, 25 averages) by injecting noise from 1 to 100 Hz. The TF coherence looked as below,

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