Reports of 61518
AdV-ISC (Alignment control scheme conceptual design)
pinto, majorana - 8:38 Sunday 13 July 2025 (67273) Print this report
locking troubles. BStx PRtx oscillation

I was called by Ettore to check some data after the opening of the WI top stage controls of tonight (loops properly closed by him). While I was checking the data I started to look also at the failed locking attempts of tonight. There was one attempt which died at ACQUIRE LN2 due to the BStx PRtx 1.2 Hz oscillations.

At the next lock, while the BS was closing in FBW the oscillation arised again so (since the ITF was in troubleshooting) I manually put in drift control before a too high divergence of the oscillation. After a while, reaching LN3, I restored the FBW control. Now we are in nominal configuration. I didin't modify anything in the automation.

 

Virgo Runs (O4c)
Sposito - from remote - 7:08 Sunday 13 July 2025 (67271) Print this report
Operator Report - Night shift

Today, I found ITF in TROUBLESHOOTING, we have several different problems with the locking acquisition. J. Casanueva was contacted by N. Menzione to solved the issue, she had been working on it for some time, so together, we decided to contact the Commissioning Coordinator, M. Was, to determine the next steps. To exclude other potential issues, I also reached out to M. Cifaldi to check whether the TCS could be involved. After a review, M. Cifaldi confirmed that the TCS was working as expected. After numerous attempts, during which we varied certain parameter values, we decided (together with Michal and Julia) to gather additional unlock data for further analysis. For some reason ITF almost reached LOW_NOISE_1 but it got stuck in a loop trying to tuned the Fmoderr it remained for 40 minutes like that and I called C. Derossi for help, but it was an unusual behavior so we dediced to put it DOWN and restarted the lock. I reverted the change on the ITF_LOCK ini file from fmoderr_skip = true back to fmoderr_skip = false. As agreeded with J. Casanueva and M. Was, after gathering others unlock data, I put ITF in LOCKED_ARMS_IR, to keep the alignment. Issue still present.

Oncall events

ISC
(12-07-2025 19:20 - 13-07-2025 01:30) From remote
Status: Ended
Description: CITF unlocks systematically

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
menzione - 22:55 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67270) Print this report
Operator Report - Afternoon shift

ITF found locked in LN3 and in SCIENCE mode.

ITF very unstable for several issues:

At 16:20 UTC ITF unlocked due to an unlock of IMC. It took 15 minutes to relock. After a realignment of both cavities and a cross-alignment in ACQUIRE_DRMI, I restarted the lock acquisition.
DET_MAIN metatron node went in unknown state. Recovered via INIT.
Unfortunately IMC unlocked several times during the first part of the lock acquisition.
TROUBLESHOOTING mode set from 17:09 to 17:22 UTC.
To resolve this, I modified the ITF_LOCK ini file to skip the Fmoderr check by changing the line fmoderr_skip = false to fmoderr_skip = true. Thanks to this change, I was able to restart the lock successfully.
Upon acheived CARM_NULL_1F, I came back to fmoderr_skip = false in  ITF_LOCK ini.
18:06 UTC - SCIENCE mode. Autoscience enabled.
18:21 UTC - ITF unlocked again. And again IMC unlocked. The RFC took very long time to relock at every unlock event.
At 18:29 UTC Metatron asked again LOCKED_PRWI. I stopped the lock acquisition and restarted again
I modified again the ITF_LOCK ini file to skip the Fmoderr check by changing the line fmoderr_skip = false to fmoderr_skip = true. Thanks to this change, I was able to restart the lock successfully.

Another issue appeared this evening is related to the CITF. It doesn't hold more than few second olthough I performed several times, and very carefully, the cross-alignment in ACQUIRE_DRMI. It unlocks systematically at LOCKING_ARMS_BEAT_DRMI_3F.
ISC OnCall contacted. TROUBLESHOOTING mode set (again) from 19:24 to 20:10 UTC.
ISC epert tuned a phase (3F MICH SRCL). Relocking in progress. But at ~20:30 UTC also the RFC unlocked again.
After severa unlocks at REDUCING_CARM_OFFSET_1_OF_3, Julia tuned also CARM NULL 3F phase. But ITF unlocks at various steps before CARM_NULL. TROUBLESHOOTING set again.

Check hrec and ISC injections skipped.

14:25 UTC - S250712cd

Guard tour (UTC):
13:45 - 14:20
15:50 - 16:30
18:13 - 18:52

Sub-system reports

DET
17:24 UTC - SDB2_B1p_QD1 and SDB2_B1p_QD2 Vbias rearmed and Shutter opened during the lock acquisition.
20:27 UTC - SDB2_B1p_QD1 Vbias rearmed and Shutter opened during the lock acquisition.
17:24 UTC - SDB2_B1p_QD1 and SDB2_B1p_QD2 Vbias rearmed and Shutter opened during the lock acquisition.
20:42 UTC - SDB2_B1p_QD1 Vbias rearmed and Shutter opened during the lock acquisition.
20:54 UTC - SDB2_B1p_QD1 Vbias rearmed and Shutter opened during the lock acquisition.

Oncall events

ISC
(12-07-2025 19:20 - ) From remote
Status: On-going
Description: CITF unlocks systematically

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
tomelleri - 15:10 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67266) Print this report
Operator Report - Morning shift

ITF found in LOW_NOISE_3 and SCIENCE mode (Autoscience ON); BNS Range ~52 Mpc.
Unlocks due to IMC unlock (UTC):

  1. 05:22 ITF unlocked from LN3 (lockloss)
  2. 05:40 unlocked at CARM_NULL_1F (lockloss)
  3. 05:44 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_IR with unusually high peaks on LSC_B7 and B8 ~ 0.5 mW
  4. 05:57 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_BEAT_DRMI_1F
  5. 05:59 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_IR. INJ On-Call (De Rossi) notified. Awaiting for on-site intervention.
  6. 06:05 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_IR with RFC power drifting
  7. 06:09 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_IR with RFC power drifting
  8. 06:28 unlocked at LOCKING_CARM_MC_IR
  9. 06:38 unlocked at LOCKING_ARMS_BEAT_DRMI_1F. Attempted to fix the issue as last night's shift by resetting fmoderr_skip=True in ITF_LOCK.ini file.
  10. 06:45 unlocked at ALIGNING_DRMI
  11. 06:56 unlocked at REDUCING_CARM_OFFSET_2_OF_3. Reverted to fmoderr_skip=False.

ITF unlocked at 07:50UTC in LOW_NOISE_2 after intervention on IMC due to PR/BS TX oscillation? (pdf 1).
Lock automatically recovered at 08:33UTC, back to LN3 in SCIENCE mode (Autoscience ON) with BNS Range ~53 Mpc. Thanks, Camilla!
ITF unlocked at 11:15UTC again due to IMC unlock. Glitches/brief dips in power on B7_DC visible during lock acquisition.
After slight adjustment of NE_TY (+1 urad) automation relocked in LN3 at 12:05UTC.

Guard and visitor tours (UTC)
04:56 -> 05:39
11:23 -> 11:58
group of 20 visitors stopped by the terrace of TEB1 between 08:48-09:00UTC and 10:42-11:03UTC.

Sub-system reports

Air Conditioning
12:02-12:20UTC Unsuccesful reset attempt of blocked WEB Heater giving Error code 114: "Not enough water flow" under guidance by Soldani.
12:32UTC On-site replacement of WEB heater electronics board by Soldani resolved DMS>ACS_WE red flags.

DAQ
08:49 and 09:04 UTC: Metatron Nodes turned red, all channels on DataDisplay and DMS temporarily unavailable for a series of successive brief connection losses.
ITF_LOCK reports USERMSG 0:EZCA CONNECTION ERROR: Any Other Error: Could not get value from channel: LSC_ENABLE.
Lock survived both times (fig. 1 and 2)

ISYS
06:58-07:12UTC Intervention in CB Hall with De Rossi.
Manually increased UGF of IMC OLTF from 111 to 130 kHZ to increase stability margin.
ITF set to DOWN in TROUBLESHOOTING mode, INJ_MAIN node set to DOWN in PAUSE.
09:38-09:44UTC Neovan Chiller refill by De Rossi.

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On-call intervention (General)
Oncall-system - 12:48 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67269) Print this report
On-call intervention

The following report has been submitted to the On-call interface.

On-call events -> Injection System

Title: IMC unlocking

Author(s): derossi

Called at: 08:05, 12-07-2025, by: Other colleague
Remote intervention: Started: ; Ended:
On-site intervention: Started: 08:40, 12-07-2025; Ended: 09:30, 12-07-2025
Status: Unresolved
Operator when issue resolved: None

Details:

Again the IMC was unlocking quite often. From the screenshot 1 it is shown that the unlocks of the ITF, apart the ones from LN2, were due to PSL/INJ.
I went to measure the IMC TF and I found UGF 112kHz with 26° phase margin (plot 2). Since last time we measured it we had 125kHz and 23°, I choose to increase the UGF to 129kHz (which implies a phase margin decrease to 15° ) by adding 1dB gain (plot 3). After this we could relock in LN3 and the IMC did not unlock so far.

I don't know why the loop seems to have slightly changed since we did not do any intervention recently. To be noticed that the Neovan head temperature is slowly increasing since months (plot 4), and the change of the chiller last Tuesday didn't do anything.

I also went to check the water level of the Neovan head chiller, to be sure there is no leakage (since yesterday the chiller went in protection mode due to the low level): it stayed as we left it yesterday.

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On-call intervention (General)
Oncall-system - 12:31 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67268) Print this report
On-call intervention

The following report has been submitted to the On-call interface.

On-call events -> Injection System

Title: IMC unlocks

Author(s): derossi

Called at: 23:30, 11-07-2025, by: Sposito
Remote intervention: Started: 23:30, 11-07-2025; Ended: 23:50, 11-07-2025
On-site intervention: Started: ; Ended:
Status: Action pending
Operator when issue resolved: Sposito

Details:

I was called by Gianmatteo Sposito because the IMC was unlocking (plot 1).
I checked the signals but I wasn't able to understand why the IMC was unlocking (plot 2 and 3 are a couple of examples of signals in raw full: difficult for instance to state if it is the PMC or PSTAB).

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
bersanetti - 9:16 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67267) Print this report
Comment to Operator Report - Night shift (67265)

As stated in multiple occasions, there is no Metatron glitch unlocking the interferometer. The unlock was at the PSTAB level (see Figure).

There is, after an unlock, the bug by which sometimes the request to go back to LOW_NOISE_3 is overwritten by the last request done by CALI, even if there shouldn't be one. Yesterday ITF_LOCK was restarted (for another reason) and the bug persists. While a proper fix is still missing we could try to stop and restart also CALI.

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
Sposito - from remote - 7:15 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67265) Print this report
Operator Report - Night shift

Today, I found ITF in SCIENCE. At 21:10 UTC, the ITF unlocked. For some unknown reasons, the ITF started to experience problems related to INJ. While trying to perform Fmoderr, the node got stuck in a loop. I temporarily put down the INJ_MAIN node then restarted the lock, and for some reason, this procedure worked, allowing the ITF to reach CARM_NULL_1F.

However, we then encountered the same issue as in previous days. Due to a glitch, Metatron requested LOCKED_PRWI while at CARM_NULL_1F, which caused the system to unlock. While attempting to relock, INJ_MAIN got stuck again in the Fmoderr loop.

To resolve this, I modified the ITF_LOCK ini file to skip the Fmoderr check by changing the line fmoderr_skip = false to fmoderr_skip = true. Thanks to this change, I was able to restart the lock successfully.

At 23:31 UTC, the ITF was back in SCIENCE.

At 00:04 UTC, the ITF unlocked.

At 00:53 UTC, the ITF was back in SCIENCE.

At 02:36 UTC, the ITF unlocked again; the WARM_LOCK process crashed, and I had to restart it. I reverted the change on the ITF_LOCK ini file from fmoderr_skip = true back to fmoderr_skip = false. I also manually realigned the CITF. After an unlock at LOW_NOISE_2, 04:52 UTC the ITF finally reached SCIENCE.

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bersanetti - 9:16 Saturday 12 July 2025 (67267) Print this report

As stated in multiple occasions, there is no Metatron glitch unlocking the interferometer. The unlock was at the PSTAB level (see Figure).

There is, after an unlock, the bug by which sometimes the request to go back to LOW_NOISE_3 is overwritten by the last request done by CALI, even if there shouldn't be one. Yesterday ITF_LOCK was restarted (for another reason) and the bug persists. While a proper fix is still missing we could try to stop and restart also CALI.

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
menzione - 22:57 Friday 11 July 2025 (67262) Print this report
Operator Report - Afternoon shift

ITF found relocking. PREPARE_SCIENCE mode.
At 17:40 UTC ITF unlocked due to a failure of ISYS system. Laser amplifier switched OFF due to a failure of Neovan Chiller (Low level of water). I contacted ISYS oncall.

TROUBLESHOOTING mode set from 17:50 to 18:56 UTC.

With Camilla we checked for leaks and recovered the correct level of chiller. ISYS system recovered in the standard state.
After a little realignment of North cavity we restarted with the lock acquisition.
ITF back in SCIENCE mode at 20:50 UTC. Autoscience enabled.

Guard tour (UTC):
17:50 - 18:33
20:55 - 

Sub-system reports

DET
during the lock acquisition it was needed to rearm Vbias and open shutter of B1p_QD1 that was disabled. Twice!

Oncall events

ISYS
(11-07-2025 18:30 - 11-07-2025 19:00) On site
Status: Ended
Description: Neovan chiller failure.

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On-call intervention (General)
Oncall-system - 20:59 Friday 11 July 2025 (67264) Print this report
On-call intervention

The following report has been submitted to the On-call interface.

On-call events -> Injection System

Title: Chiller of Neovan amplifier head off

Author(s): derossi

Called at: 19:50, 11-07-2025, by: Menzione
Remote intervention: Started: ; Ended:
On-site intervention: Started: 20:30, 11-07-2025; Ended: 21:00, 11-07-2025
Status: Resolved
Operator when issue resolved: Menzione

Details:

The Neovan amplifier went in protection mode because the chiller cooling its head switched off due to the low level of the water. This is strange since we refilled it last Tuesday (along with the change of the filter). For this reason with Nicola Menzione we carefully checked for some leaks on the laser bench and under the floor, but we couldn't find any. We thus refilled the water and restarted the system.

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AdV-ISC (Commissioning up to first full interferometer lock)
ruggi, pinto - 18:16 Friday 11 July 2025 (67263) Print this report
Comment to SR tx scan vs BNS range (67217)

An attempt to produce another polynomial reconstruction of the sensitivity has been done. The first problem to face is the presence of many glitches, reducing the length of the available good segments of data. We used a trick which seems acceptable: from a long period of continuous lock in the same condition, a list of segments has been selected, putting  a threshold on BNS range and considering only the segments long enough. On those data, an amplitude spectral density has been computed, making the average of the averages.

This operation has been done for the data acquired on Jul 4, starting from 16:40 UTC, for 70000 seconds. The BNS range was high thanks to the offset on SR_TX. Eleven segments with BNS range > 55.8 Mpc has been selected for a total time of 2156 s, obtaining an averaged range of 56.5 Mpc.

The floor of the spectrum has been reconstructed by a quadratic sum of simple contributions

  • 1/f^4      3.2e-23 @ 35 Hz   (control noise)
  • 1/f^3      0.29e-23 @ 60 Hz (control noise) a small adjustment of the low frequency part, dominated by the previous term
  • 1/f^2.5   30e-23 @ 10 Hz (pendulum thermal noise)
  • 1/f^0.5   0.55e-23 @ 100 Hz (coating thermal noise)
  • 1/CavPOLE   0.55e-23 @ 0 Hz (readout noise)
  • 1/(CavPOLE*f^0.5)    0.6e-23 @ 100 Hz (mystery noise);   the amplitude regards the 1/f^0.5 part, before the cavity pole.

The list of contribution is a bit arbitrary and doesn't want to be a real noise budget: the only check that it could be a good model comes from the quality of the final reconstruction, but other models could be equally good or better.

The final reconstruction is the output of a semi-automatic iterative process, which returns the 6 amplitudes shown in the list. It is a search of a minimum error, but not on 6 free parameters: the two regarding the thermal noise are fixed, coincident with an expected value. A check on those two values has been done, observing that the quality of the fit starts to degradate if too different vaues are choosen. A full automatic search was unsatisfactory, because too dipendent on the starting values.

A note on the mystery noise slope: putting it as a parameter of the search, the output was nomally closer to -0.5 than -0.66. Using it as a fixed number, the results were normally more accurate with -0.5, than -0.66. A fixed number -0.5 has been considered the best choice: using slopes as parameters gives not well converging results and seems not a good way to proceed, if the aim of the study is the evaluation of contribution amplitude in different conditions. As a personal opinion, -0.5 slope is preferable also in case of equivalent fitting accuracy, because it has more probability of being associated to a fundamental process.

The optimal values of the parametric amplitudes have been obtained after a double iteration. The first has been applied to all the dots in the interval 15-2000 Hz. Using the first result, several dots has been excluded: all the ones too far from the fit. The aim of this selection was to exclude peaks, bumps and lines from the curve and keep only the floor. A second search has been done on the selected data.

Fig 1 shows the reconstruction for 56.5 Mpc curve.

Fig 2 shows shows the accordance between the selected data and the fit. The yellow dots are residual values for all the data, re-including the dots excluded after the first iteration.

Fig 3 shows a similar analysis performed on data acquired with SR_TX aligned, starting from Jul 3 20:05, 45000 s. THe threshold on BNS has been put at 53.5 Mpc. The averaged range is 54.2 Mpc. The new amplitude of the mystery noise is 0.68e-23; the one with the adjustment of SR_TX was 0.60e-23. The output was slightly different also for other two components: the 1/f^3 and the readout noise. For both, the amplitude is about 6 % lower than the previous case. At high frequency the variation could be explained by an increase of the optical gain; the variation at low frequency could be not significant because regards a small component of uncertain origin.

Fig 4: the same analysis has been applied to data in LN2, SR_TY aligned and mystery noise dominant in the data (Jul 3 15:45). Also for those data, the slope -0.5 seems to me preferable, even if the quality of the fit is less good (see also fig 5).

Fig 6: the recontruction done for the curve at 56.5 Mpc is used to show how a curve without mystery noise would be. The BNS range would reach 69 Mpc and there would be still a lot of noise to remove, before reaching the supposed limit of fundamental noise for this configuration, at 89 Mpc.

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
tomelleri, zaza - 15:19 Friday 11 July 2025 (67260) Print this report
Operator Report - Morning shift

ITF found relocking at LOCKED_ARMS_BEAT_DRMI_1F in PREPARE_SCIENCE (Autoscience ON). Achieved LN3 at 05:36UTC.
Almost immediately unlocked at 05:43UTC (pdf 1) due to BS glitch with ITF_LOCK request=LOCKED_PRWI, as has been the case for the 3 most recent unlocks (fig.1).
Automation stuck in LOCKING_ARMS_BEAT_DRMI_1F, fixed by performing cross-alignment in ACQUIRE_DRMI with Operator-in-trainining Zaza (SR_TY was misaligned by 12 urad).
Lock recovered at 07:14UTC, back in SCIENCE.
ITF set to DOWN in TROUBLESHOOTING mode at 09:50UTC to allow for CEB interventions:

  • 09:55-10:51UTC swap of DSP card in BS rack, substitution of fan filters, resync of Timing_dsp by Boschi and Piendibene
  • 10:00-10:20UTC inventory work in cabling lab by Dattilo.

Lock recovery after BS intervention (UTC):

  • 10:53 Closed SPRB_SBE position loop from VPM.
  • 11:02 Realigned NE cavity for ARMS_LOCK on IR.
  • 11:15 usual cross-alignment in ACQUIRE_DRMI. SUS_PR node stuck while MISALIGNING. Only fixed by restarting ITF_LOCK at 11:40UTC.
  • 11:48 Unlock due to RFC unlock during second attempt at DRMI alignment. INJ on-call (De Rossi) notified. Automatically relocked.
  • 12:12 Succesful cross-alignment in ACQUIRE_DRMI by Zaza, Bersanetti.
  • 12:56 Relocked in LN3, back in SCIENCE with Autoscience ON.

ITF unlocked almost immediately again at 13:04UTC due to WE glitch.

Sub-system reports

ISC
07:24UTC Violin modes excited for a few minutes, see DMS flag in fig. 2

SQZ
10:22UTC Intervention on VAC system by Vardaro

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
berni - 6:57 Friday 11 July 2025 (67259) Print this report
Operator Report - Night shift

ITF found in Science mode.

The ITF unlocked twice (22:10 UTC and 23:57 UTC); every times it relocked at the first attempt.

It unlocked again at 4:48 UTC, relock in progress.

 

Guard tours (time in UTC)

22:00-22:40; 0:00-0:40; 2:30-3:10

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
Sposito - 22:53 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67257) Print this report
Operator Report - Afternoon shift

Today, I found the ITF in SCIENCE mode. At 15:10 UTC, the ITF status was in COMMISSIONING. Here is the list of activities:

  • Switch on auxiliary energy system at the TB for 15 minutes from approximately 15:15 to 15:30 UTC (M. D'Andrea)
  • Test of the new version script for ENV injections (M. Tringali, D. Bersanetti)
  • SAT BS board test (V. Boschi)

Here is the list of activities I performed:

  • 17:56–18:16 UTC: ASC injections
  • 18:18–18:37 UTC: CALIBRATED_DF_SENSITIVITY
  • 18:37–18:55 UTC: UTF DF_PCAL
  • 18:57–19:43 UTC: ENV noise injections

19:47 UTC: ITF back in SCIENCE mode

 

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Environmental Monitoring (Environmental Monitoring)
Tringali, Bersanetti, Carbognani - 19:21 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67258) Print this report
Test of NEB and WEB automated acoustic injections

Thanks to Diego's help, today we tested the code for performing acoustic injections at the terminal buildings via the ENV_MAIN Metatron node. Figures 1–2 show the colored noise sent to the DAC channels at CEB, NEB, and WEB (amplitude = 0.04, duration = 120 s, freq. range =  8-2000 Hz).
Unlike at CEB, the loudspeakers at the terminal buildings are not yet connected to the smart PDUs. However, the on/off switching process of the dedicated sockets was triggered by the code and worked as expected.

Below are the PDUs and the socket used:

  • WEB: PDU_WE_ALS_NNC, socket 3
  • NEB:  PDU_NE_ALS_NNC, socket 3

Powering the loudspeakers via smart PDUs at the terminal buildings will be implemented in the coming weeks.

 

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
menzione - 14:50 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67254) Print this report
Operator Report - Morning shift

ITF found locked at LN3 in SCIENCE mode with a BNS Range ~56 Mpc.
06:10 UTC - Under request of Mantovani i set ITF mode in ADJUSTING for a minute to perform a step of NI Etalon from 20.34 to 20.4 in 36000 sec.
At 06:52 ITF unlocked due to the unlock of IMC. The LC of SIB1 opened by the guardians. I closed it properly but the RFC didn't relock automatically.
TROUBLESHOOTING mode set from 07:25 to 08:00 UTC.
I called ISYS OnCall expert. Derossi recovered the correct bench position.

After the unlock of 07:00 UTC the DET_MAIN metatron node got stuck in "unknown" state. Properly recovered via INIT.
At 07:00 UTC I re-Load ITF_LOCK. (Bersanetti request).

Relocked at first attempt. SCIENCE mode set at 08:47 UTC. AUTOSCIENCE enabled.
Unfortunately ITF unlocked again. Ruggi set again a good configuration of Reallocation.
Autoelocked at first attempt. SCIENCE mode set at 09:47 UTC.
There is still a communication problem between DSP (LVDT board for the horizontal loop control) and FO of BS. I contacted Suspension expert and informed him of this issue. An intervention in CEB (BS rack) has to be planned.

Sub-system reports

SUSP
05:19 UTC - LargeCoil_WEB process crashed / restarted

Oncall events

ISYS
(10-07-2025 07:30 - 10-07-2025 08:00) On site
Status: Ended
Description: RFC didn't relock automatically after the INJ unlock.
Derossi checked on it and recovered the bench position.

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AdV-ISC (Commissioning up to first full interferometer lock)
mantovani - 12:14 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67256) Print this report
SRCL set clip

I ve changed the upper set of the SRCL set clip from 90 to 110 since during last nigth it was saturated at 90 (it will be changed also in the lsc config file of Acl to be robust against Acl restarts)

AdV-ISC (Commissioning up to first full interferometer lock)
mwas - 9:44 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67255) Print this report
Comment to SR tx scan vs BNS range (67217)

This morning at 5:12 UTC I have put ASC_SR_TX_SET to 0.022 with a 2 hours long ramp. We have over 12h of steady lock before that, so this change should give us another check if that offset remains a good way of gaining a few Mpc.

At 6:52 UTC the interferometer unlocked, so the ramp did not get the time to arrive to the end. However looking at the trend over the preceeding ~8 hours, clearly the BNS range improved by ~2 Mpc. Les clearly the dark fringe power reduced by a few percent, the DARM optical gain may have decreased slightly. The SR change in alignment is clearly visible on the B1p quadrant DC channels, especially on QD2 V and QD1 H. 

 

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
berni - 6:51 Thursday 10 July 2025 (67253) Print this report
Operator Report - Night shift

ITF in Science mode for all the shift.

 

Guard tours (time in UTC)

23:00-23:40; 1:00-1:40; 3:17-4:00

Virgo Runs (O4c)
Sposito - 23:00 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67250) Print this report
Operator Report - Afternoon shift

Today, I found the ITF in SCIENCE.  It remained locked for the rest of the shift.

Guard tours (UTC):

17:17-17:47 

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AdV-SAT (Daily SAT Summary)
ruggi - 17:53 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67252) Print this report
BS glitch

Since yesterday during the maintenance a new problem is present: the ITF unlocks quite often and most of the times it happens soon after a fast glitch on BS top stage data. Togethere with the time coincidence, the evidence of correlation is given by the fact that the loss of ITF control happens because of an increased longitudinal correction on BS payload, and only on BS.

The glitches on BS top stage are much more frequent than the unlocks and the majority of them have apparently no effect on the locking: there is something not clear in the unlock mechanism.

The data affected by the glitches are only the top stage position signals, reconstructed from the three horizontal LVDTs; in the raw LVDTs, the glitch is not visible. The value of the reconstructed signals during the glitch are the ones generated by the constant set point added in the CoilDriver board before generating the reconstructions; this is compatible with zero values received by the CD board from the LVDT board.

Trying to mitigate the effect of the glitches, the BS reallocation to IP has been disabled. After that, the lock is surviving more than before, but we need to consider also the fact that the rate of glitches is decreasing.

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Virgo Runs (O4c)
menzione - 15:32 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67247) Print this report
Operator Report - Morning shift

ITF found relocking at CARM_NULL_1F and in PREPARE_SCIENCE with Autoscience enabled.
After the unlock of 05:35 UTC the DET_MAIN metatron node got stuck in "unknown" state. Properly recovered via INIT.
No problems with the lock acquisition. Investigation in progress, by ISC experts, on recent unlocks events. Probably a glitch on BS IP.
Relocking in progress...

Sub-system reports

DET
10:23 UTC - B1p_QD2 stuck during the lock acquisition. Properly closed via VPM.

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Vacuum (Power recycling)
Vacuum - 12:40 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67249) Print this report
PR turbomolecular pump swap completed

This morning, during an unlock phase of the interferometer, we stopped the main turbo pump of the PR tower, since it was showing signs of malfunction (power instabilities).

In its place we have activated the spare pump, now operating normally, and during the next two tuesday breaks we will replace the main pump with a new unit .

Virgo Runs (O4c)
dattilo - 12:08 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67248) Print this report
Comment to Operator Report - Afternoon shift (67226)
On Sunday, July 6th, at 9:00 PM local time, an outreach event took place at EGO, with an external company setting up a stage in the parking area. Approximately 150–200 people attended the event.

No special equipment was required to set up the stage, but the materials were transported on a 3.5-ton truck, which was parked in front of Technical Building No. 2, adjacent to the Main Building. (The entire route followed the left side of the entrance.)

The company's stage assembly and dismantling hours were not communicated directly to the Control Room that day, but yesterday the Communication Office informed me of the company's on-site hours, which are as follows (local time):
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
3:30 PM to 1:10 AM
Virgo Runs (O4c)
amagazzu - 7:04 Wednesday 09 July 2025 (67246) Print this report
Operator Report - Night shift

ITF found during locking acquisition.
During the shift the ITF unlocked multiple times from LOW_NOISE_3, with the longest lock lasting 40 minutes. The others round up to 15 minutes.

Here the timetable of the events:
21:38 UTC - Science Mode
21:53 UTC - Unlock
22:48 UTC - Science Mode
23:29 UTC - Unlock
00:19 UTC - Science Mode
00:36 UTC - Unlock
1:48 UTC - Science Mode
1:55 UTC - Unlock
2:50 UTC - Science Mode
3:02 UTC - Unlock
4:13 UTC - Science Mode
4:29 UTC - Unlock

Relock in progress.

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