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2579
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Mon Feb 8 15:41:51 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Suddenly a much better alignment of PRC |
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2578
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Mon Feb 8 15:01:46 2010 |
rob | Update | ABSL | Suddenly a much better alignment of PRC |
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2577
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Mon Feb 8 14:56:17 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Suddenly a much better alignment of PRC | I just aligned PRM and locked PRC and I
noticed that SPOB is much higehr than it
used to be. It's now about 1800, vs 1200 |
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2576
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Mon Feb 8 14:13:03 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | PLL Characterization | Lately I've been trying to improve the
PLL for the AbsL experiment so that it could
handle larger frequency steps and thus speed |
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2575
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Sat Feb 6 00:10:08 2010 |
Sanjit | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF at > 5Hz |
Did some more test to get better
performance at higher frequencies. |
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2574
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Fri Feb 5 14:31:46 2010 |
Jenne | Update | SUS | 2 SOS towers assembled | [Jenne, Kiwamu]
The 2 SOS towers for the ITMs have
been assembled, and are on the flow bench |
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2573
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Fri Feb 5 11:01:49 2010 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | slow pumpdown valve | I have installed a slow start throttle
valve in front of V3 This spring loaded
valve will cut down on the flow at high pressures. |
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2572
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Fri Feb 5 01:04:58 2010 |
Sanjit | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF at > 5Hz |
There is lot of coherence between
the error signal and PEM channels at 5-100Hz. |
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2571
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Fri Feb 5 00:52:55 2010 |
Sanjit | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF at 0.1-1.0 Hz |
At 0.1-1.0Hz, there is some coherence
between MC_L and RANGER_Y & GUR_Y, see |
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2570
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Thu Feb 4 12:29:04 2010 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Martian IP switch over notes | What is the change:
We will be
moving the 131.215.113.XXX ip addresses of
the martian network over to a 192.168.XXX.YYY |
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2569
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Thu Feb 4 00:59:52 2010 |
rana | Update | elog | elog restarted | I restarted the ELOG on NODUS just
now. Our attempt to set up error logging
worked - it turns out ELOG was choking |
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2568
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Wed Feb 3 11:13:15 2010 |
steve | Configuration | General | planed power outage for Sat. Feb 20 | The electrical shop has to connect the
new power transformer at CES. This means
we will have no AC power for ~8 hrs on Saturday, |
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2567
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Wed Feb 3 10:46:12 2010 |
Alberto | Update | elog | elog restarted | Again, this morning Zach told me
that the elog had crashed while he was trying
to post an entry. |
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2566
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Wed Feb 3 09:01:42 2010 |
rob | Update | lore | IFO isn't playing nice tonight |
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2565
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Wed Feb 3 07:57:01 2010 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC transmission is low | The low PMC transmission alarm was on this
morning. The PMC alignment needs a touch
up. |
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2564
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Wed Feb 3 01:17:19 2010 |
Koji | Update | PSL | IFO isn't playing nice tonight | I checked the situation from my home
and the problem was solved. |
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2563
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Tue Feb 2 22:39:12 2010 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | IFO isn't playing nice tonight | [Jenne, Kiwamu]
It's been an iffy last few hours
here at the 40m. Kiwamu, Koji and I |
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2562
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Tue Feb 2 18:15:47 2010 |
Alberto | Update | elog | Elog restarted it | Zach made me notice that the elog
had crashed earlier on this afternoon.
I just restarted it with the restarting |
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2561
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Tue Feb 2 16:10:09 2010 |
steve | Update | PEM | construction progress next door | CES construction is progressing. The 40m
suspensions are bearing well.
atm1, PEM vs sus plots of 120 |
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2560
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Tue Feb 2 15:30:03 2010 |
Alberto | Frogs | Treasure | Wild Oats | FYI. Sitting on the top shelf of George
I found an opened jar of raspberry jam and
an opened jar of creamy peanut butter. Both |
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2559
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Tue Feb 2 13:14:09 2010 |
Koji | HowTo | IOO | Anatomy of New Focus Resonant EOM | Joe let me use the resonant EOM for GigE
phase camera for a while.
Then, I immediately started to open |
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2558
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Tue Feb 2 10:38:30 2010 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Megatron BO test | Last night, I connected megatron's BO board
to the analog dewhitening board. However,
I was unable to lock the y arm (although |
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2557
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Mon Feb 1 21:51:12 2010 |
Sanjit | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF details | I tried some combination of PEM
channels and filters to improve OAF performance
at other frequencies, where we do not have |
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2556
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Mon Feb 1 18:33:10 2010 |
steve | Update | MOPA | Ve half the lazer! | The 2W
NPRO from Valera arrived today and I haf |
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2555
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Mon Feb 1 18:31:00 2010 |
Sanjit | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF details | I tried downsampling value
32 (instead of 16), to see if it has any
effect on OAF. Last week I encountered some |
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2554
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Fri Jan 29 13:14:49 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Measurement running today at lunch time |
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2553
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Fri Jan 29 12:06:58 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Measurement running today at lunch time | I just started a measuremtn that will be
running for the next hour or so. Please be
careful with the interferometer. |
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2552
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Thu Jan 28 09:17:32 2010 |
Alberto | Update | LSC | 166 Modulation turned off | I temporarily turned off the 166 modulation. |
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2551
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Thu Jan 28 09:14:51 2010 |
Alberto | Configuration | Computers | c1iscey, c1iscex, c1lsc, c1asc rebooted | This morning the LSC scripts wheren't running
properly. I had to reboot c1iscey, c1iscex,
c1lsc, c1asc . |
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2550
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Wed Jan 27 11:02:30 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | PRC Cavity Length | I fitted the data from scanning
the PRC by changing the beat frequency of
the auxiliary laser beam with the PSL beam.
The |
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2549
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Tue Jan 26 20:18:32 2010 |
rana | Configuration | ALARM | op540m: alarms and BLRMS and StripTool restored | I turned the StripTool and ALARMS and BLRMS
back on on op540m. Looks like it has been
rebooted 5 days ago and no one turned these |
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2548
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Tue Jan 26 19:51:44 2010 |
Sanjit, rana | Update | Adaptive Filtering | OAF details | We turned on the OAF again to make sure
it works. We got it to work well with the
Ranger as well as the Guralp channels. The |
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2547
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Tue Jan 26 03:28:56 2010 |
rana | Update | ABSL | 166 MHz sideband turned off |
You can turn the 166 off if
you want. MZ is unhappy after its turned |
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2546
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Mon Jan 25 16:46:33 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | 166 MHz sideband turned off |
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2545
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Mon Jan 25 16:30:37 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | 166 MHz sideband turned off | I turned off the modulation at 166MHZ
becasue I don't need it if I'm only locking
the PRC. |
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2544
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Mon Jan 25 11:42:24 2010 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Megatron and BO board | I was talking with Vladimir on Friday discussing
the Binary Output board, we looked at the
manual for it (Contec DO-32L-PE) and we realized |
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2543
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Fri Jan 22 14:40:49 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Overnight measurement |
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2542
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Fri Jan 22 12:33:37 2010 |
josephb, alex | Update | Computers | Modified CDS_PARTS for Binary output | Turns out the CDSO32 part (representing
the Contec BO-32L-PE binary output) rquires
two inputs. One for the first 16 bits, and |
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2541
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Fri Jan 22 02:54:06 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Overnight measurement | I'm leaving a measurement running overnight.
It should be done in about one hour.
Tomorrow morning, If you need to |
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2540
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Thu Jan 21 17:23:30 2010 |
josephb,alex,koji | HowTo | Computers | RCG code fixes | In order to see the Contec DO-32L-PE
Digital output PCIe card with the new
controls, we had to add the CDO32 part to |
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2539
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Thu Jan 21 15:16:16 2010 |
josephb, koji | Summary | Computers | Megatron used to lock Y arm | We
succeeded in having a stable single arm (Y)
lock using Megatron to replace c1iscey.
Now |
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2538
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Thu Jan 21 11:08:30 2010 |
kiwamu, steve | Update | VAC | Dry Pump replacement | This morning I and Steve replaced
the dry fore pump of TP3, which is located
under the y-arm. |
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2536
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Thu Jan 21 10:31:13 2010 |
Koji | Update | ABSL | Some preliminary results from measuring PRC's transmissivity for an amplitude modulated beam | Nice
and interesting plot.
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2535
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Thu Jan 21 10:09:27 2010 |
Koji | Summary | IOO | Photos of the optical tables | I made a wiki page dedicated for the photos
of the optical tables.
The current layouts were uploaded. |
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2534
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Wed Jan 20 20:11:56 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Some preliminary results from measuring PRC's transmissivity for an amplitude modulated beam | Here I'm posting a plot showing a
set of measurements that I made in the past
few days to determine the absolute length |
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2533
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Tue Jan 19 23:26:07 2010 |
kiwamu | Update | Electronics | Re:Re: triple resonant circuit for EOM |
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2532
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Tue Jan 19 16:21:18 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Watchdogs not working and then fixed | This afternoon the watchdogs stopped working:
they didn't trip when the suspension positions
crossed the threshold values. |
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2531
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Tue Jan 19 12:54:39 2010 |
Alberto | Update | ABSL | Measurement in progress | A measurement will be running for the next
hour. Please be careful. |
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2530
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Tue Jan 19 10:30:29 2010 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Boot fest to restart the computer and c1iscey not responding. |
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2529
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Tue Jan 19 03:27:47 2010 |
kiwamu | Update | Electronics | Re: triple resonant circuit for EOM | 1. You are right, the gain for the
single resonant circuit was about 9.3 in
my measurement. |
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