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menzione - 15:00 Wednesday 24 April 2019 (45721) Print this report
Operator Report - Morning Shift 24 April 2019

ITF found in Science Mode with Horizon 47 Mpc. During the shift the Horizon decreased to 44 Mpc I informed ISC OnCall.
08:22 UTC ITF unlocked for unknown reasons. It relocked at first attempt.

OnCall
ISC at 09:00 UTC for the worsening of the sensitivity.

DMS
ISC - ASC_BS_TX_INPUT and LSC_B4_112MHz_MAG red sub flags. Expert informed.

Environment
Wind Activity increasing

Pending
After the disabled the full bandwidth loop of the BS of Bersanetti ITF is more stable but noisy, If Bersanetti will restore standard condition, contact Nardecchia to set WI_TCS CO2Laser set point (Set Adjustment for 10 minutes).

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bersanetti - 16:13 Wednesday 24 April 2019 (45724) Print this report

OnCall
ISC at 09:00 UTC for the worsening of the sensitivity.

I am really puzzled about why the ISC on-call should be a priori responsible for the sensitivity of the whole interferometer (this has happened also another time with the ISC section of the DMS completely green, by the way); DetChar shifters should be the first responders about changes in the performance of the detector, in my opinion.

DMS
ISC - ASC_BS_TX_INPUT and LSC_B4_112MHz_MAG red sub flags. Expert informed.

The ASC_BS_T*_INPUT flags are expected to be red (or yellow at the very least) since the BS loop is left in Drift Control mode; occasionally, also the COMMp_TX_INPUT flag becomes yellow, but this is more related to the weather conditions. The B4_112MHz_MAG flag may be red in consequence of the BS loop, but it seems too much a big effect to me. Other possibilities could be again the weather or some mistuning of the B4_56MHz demodulation phase (the B4_56MHz_DPHI flag being yellow): this has been wandering all the time, but usually quite closely around zero; for example, another "yellow" period is around Apr 14th (see Figure) which, however, did not cause any misbehaviour of the ITF. This will be kept under observation and the hard-coded offset will be changed if needed, as it happened just before the start of O3.

Pending
After the disabled the full bandwidth loop of the BS of Bersanetti ITF is more stable but noisy, If Bersanetti will restore standard condition, contact Nardecchia to set WI_TCS CO2Laser set point (Set Adjustment for 10 minutes).

Given the strong dependence of the sidebands (and the alignment working point) from the tuning of the TCS, I would rather fix the TCS first, as the action seems to be self-contained while on the contrary the BS loop may depend on this. I will contact Ilaria and the Commissioning Coordinator and devise the best strategy to tackle the issue.

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nardecchia, fafone, rocchi - 17:49 Wednesday 24 April 2019 (45727) Print this report
The WI CO2 laser power is fluctuating, probably due to the increase of the environmental temperature which in turn, causes the oscillation of the laser temperature (see fig. 1).
This oscillation could trigger a change of the polarization state of the beam, altering the DAS power value projected on the CP.
During the last TCS tuning before the beginning O3, I rotated the DAS OUT half-wave plate to not inject power in the ITF.
Since the laser status changed I used the flip mirror to block the beam on the CO2 bench to prevent the risk of projecting any power on the CP.
I asked the operator to put the ITF in 'Adjusting' during the intervention, from 14.54.16 to 15.00.15 UTC.
A tuning of the chiller settings probably is needed to stabilize the laser.
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