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shift - 17:26 Wednesday 08 April 2020 (14046) Print this report
Shift Summary - Day Apr. 8, 2020
DURATION: 2020/04/08  09:00-17:00 JST, all times posted in JST
 
operator shift: K. Kokeyama
co-operator shift: T. Tomura
 
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT: stable
 
Shift Summary: BNS range 0.8 Mpc ~ 1.2 Mpc (Need correction)
 
time / event
09:00 / shift started, observing state continues.
 
11:00 / LSC_LOCK: ok, VIS: ok, Data_Transfer: ok
 
11:49 / Lock loss (no earthquake), lock duration: 6:32:48
  Kokeyama-san started recovery work for alignment.
 
~12:00 / CAL parameters fixed by Yamamoto-san.  (Details will be posted by Yamamoto-san later.)
 
~13:15 / PRMPMI locked (Not observing)
13:35 / Lock loss
 
17:00  Recovery work still continues.
 
duty cycle 2020/04/08 09:00 -- 17:00 : Observation mode 35.3%
Comments to this report:
keiko.kokeyama - 20:05 Wednesday 08 April 2020 (14048) Print this report

Lucia, Keiko, Ushiba

Summary of the recovery work:

Situation after lockloss: GR X and GR Y TRANS were very low (0.3~0.5) possibly locking with higher order modes whereas IR arm was good.

[Initial Alignemnt]
X arm:
First I tried to change the GR beam to align the IR. POP POM pico was moved especially in YAW (~ +-100 steps). However GR TRANS coudn't be maxmized to 1. With suggestions from Nakano-kun, after all PR3, PR2 and IMMT1 were moved to align X arm GR and IR. Now I think maybe IMMT1 could be moved but hasn't been moved. X arm ADS was failing, but after the alignment it worked.

Y arm:
Y arm GR and IR locked but the ADS didn't work in the beginning. ETM COMM DIFF dither CLK GAIN were on and they may have been messing up the Y arm ADS.. Also, I did a burt of the ADS model to a wrong timing, the Y arm dither signal was using AS DC instead of TMSY signal. That was also messing up the EY ADS. It took some time to notice them and fix them.

OMC:
When Y arm initial alignment, after ALS and IR length lock, we manually centered the OMC QPDs with OMMMT/OSTM pico and OPTIC ALIGN sliders (these QPD SUMs have to be ~2900 and ~2500 for QPDV1 and QPDV2, respectively). OMC was locked OK, however, when ENGAGE_OMC_ADS, there were strange kicks and jumps of OMMT2 and OSTM when we engage OMC_LSC_LOCKED. We repeated the procedures and saw the kicks for 2-3 times. However after some trials, it didn't happen again. We left as it was and we don't know what were the problems.

IFO recovered at around 8pm.

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