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Tue Feb 20 08:01:30 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Power and network equipment installed in 1129 rack | [Jon, Tyler, Pooyan, Luis, Luke, Peter]
On
Thursday we installed the power conditioning/distribution
equipment and networking equipment in the |
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335
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Thu Feb 22 21:48:16 2024 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Vacuum vent for RGA testing of reflector | [Jon, Tyler, Luke, Aiden]
Summary
Following
Wednesday's cleanroom cleaning [333],
we proceeded to vent the vacuum chamber, |
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339
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Sat Feb 24 08:53:38 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Matlab upgraded to 2023b on Chimay | I upgraded Matlab on chimay to the latest
stable release, 2023b. From some quick tests,
it appears to be in working order. Let me |
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341
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Mon Feb 26 21:23:27 2024 |
Jon | Update | TCS | FROSTI Assembly - Day 1 | [Jon, Tyler, Luis, Luke, Mohak, Cynthia, Michael,
Aiden]
FROSTI assembly began today. After
a final set of RGA scans were taken, the |
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Thu Jun 20 18:01:11 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws3 in 1129 | I have repurposed a spare Intel NUC to serve
as the first of two planned workstations
in 1129. Today I set it up with a fresh installation |
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385
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Wed Jun 26 15:33:41 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws3 in 1129 |
Set-up of the first CDS workstation for
1129, ws3, is complete and the machine is
ready for use. The login credentials are |
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402
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Thu Jul 11 21:01:37 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cable tray installed in 1129 | Today I installed a 10' cable tray in 1129,
for permanently routing Ethernet lines to
the workstations. It is securely bolted to |
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Fri Jul 26 17:25:42 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws4 installed in 1129 | Today I installed the second desktop workstation
in 1129. The new machine is an Intel NUC13ANHi5,
with a 12-Core Intel i5-1340P CPU, 32GB DDR4 |
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418
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Tue Jul 30 07:42:47 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cable tray installed in 1119 | Yesterday I installed another 5' cable tray
in 1119, for permanently routing Ethernet
lines to the L-bench. It is securely bolted |
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670
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Thu Jan 22 10:10:31 2026 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Lab floor plans | Attached are the starting and final floor
plans for the February 2026 expansion into
the Physics 1125 lab. |
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Thu Feb 5 11:42:47 2026 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Lab floor plans | [Audrey, Cece, Jon, Ma, Mary, Michael,
Pooyan, Tyler, Shane]
We have completed the preliminary |
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Fri Feb 10 16:34:45 2023 |
Huy Tuong Cao | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Nitrogen gas tank ready to use | Cao,
Today I fixed the final bit related
to the nitrogen gas tank, which is to apply
sealing tape to M-NPT connector of the hose |
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359
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Mon Apr 8 14:57:41 2024 |
Cynthia, Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | performed cavity scans for O4 O5, and coupled cavity | |
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343
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Tue Feb 27 09:06:29 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | cavity scan with higher order input laser | I performed a few cavity scan with the inputing
laser with a different mode (not pure 00).
For each laser I included a graph for just |
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363
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Mon Apr 22 15:06:33 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | cavity scan update | [Cynthia,Pooyan]
Completed some simulations
injecting 0-10th order modes. Some graphs
will be used for the poster after some further |
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381
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Mon Jun 24 14:28:51 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | SIS cavity with thermal effect | tried to run a cavity scan with thermal deformation
and ring heater for ITM04 ETM08 (aLIGO mirrors).
Not sure about the accuracy of the graph |
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392
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Mon Jul 1 15:19:42 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | O4 and O5 mirror cavity scans with thermal effect | |
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408
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Mon Jul 15 15:44:52 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | performed cavity scans with thermal effects and ring heater | |
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424
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Mon Aug 12 17:09:04 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | O4 vs O5 cavity scans with ITM plume guess or ETM | So far the proposed solution for what to use
for O5 ITM mirror for SIS simulations is
either the plume guess file or using the |
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Mon Aug 26 14:42:04 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | current status on cavity scan with effects of FROSTI | I used the code and arm cavity model used
for previous O5 study on mirrors and HOM
(the pdf of the study and the result can |
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443
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Mon Sep 16 15:18:59 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | a breakdown of FROSTI and thermal effects and the resulting cavity scan | |
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446
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Mon Sep 23 15:00:41 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | corrections on assumption for O5 coating | The document recording ETM07 and ETM08 coating
(T2300093) was discussed:
the current
plume files are not necessarily correct in |
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587
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Tue Jun 3 12:16:13 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Point absorber simulation on radially averaged profile | |
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679
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Thu Feb 5 13:34:13 2026 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Point absorber + miscentering simulation | |
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361
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Mon Apr 15 15:25:10 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | progress on simulation so far | |
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374
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Mon Jun 3 14:59:44 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Created cavity scan with LG modes | |
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426
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Mon Aug 19 07:11:55 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | cavity scans with FROSTI effects | |
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454
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Wed Oct 2 13:38:00 2024 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | cavity scan with averaged O4 ETM coating as plume | |
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526
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Tue Feb 25 10:56:25 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | mirror coating added for simulation rerun | I have tried to rerun the simulation on finesse
after adding the mirror coating. The result
has a large fluctuation in required input |
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530
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Tue Mar 4 10:18:43 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | attempted to remove curvature and tilt for the coating | |
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540
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Tue Mar 11 11:28:52 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | flattening mirror to study power discrepency | |
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554
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Tue Apr 15 11:37:17 2025 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Finishing up mirror coating map step | |
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686
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Thu Feb 19 12:34:18 2026 |
Cynthia | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Point absorber simulation | |
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635
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Tue Aug 26 12:45:41 2025 |
Christina, Ma, Tyler | Update | CDS | RIN Update | Slides |
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600
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Fri Jun 27 15:38:22 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | FROSTI Reconstruction | [Tyler, Ma, Christina, Luke]
We threaded the wiring of the
heater elements through the reflective surfaces |
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601
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Tue Jul 1 11:04:00 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | FROSTI Reconstruction II | [Ma, Tyler, Christina]
Finished
external reconstruction of the FROSTI by
installing all the pins to the 2 DB 25 connectors. |
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604
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Mon Jul 7 16:39:18 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Pomona Box Drawings | Below are the drawings for the pomona
box modifications |
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Thu Jul 10 16:41:18 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Pomona
Box completed and is now on the server rack
in 1119. Additionally, the photodetectors |
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Tue Jul 15 10:40:23 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Yesterday,
Ma and I started taking data for the PSD/CSD
measurements while the photodetectors and |
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614
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Tue Jul 15 13:13:48 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Photodetector optical post assembly | |
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615
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Tue Jul 22 12:20:29 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | | [Ma, Christina, Tyler]
Figure
1 shows the following PSDs for channels 0-15
from the 14 hour test. Figure 2 shows the |
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619
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Tue Jul 29 12:30:00 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | 260 hour ADC update | [Ma, Christina, Tyler]
ADC CyMAC
260 hr, 8192Hz sampling rate channels V3
and Vref6 |
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624
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Mon Aug 11 22:19:50 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | Red Pitaya Data Streaming | [Ma, Tyler, Christina]
This past week, we were able to
set up the data streaming for continuous |
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629
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Tue Aug 12 13:46:56 2025 |
Christina | Update | | | |
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631
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Tue Aug 19 12:08:40 2025 |
Christina | Update | TCS | RP Initial vs CyMAC Plot Comparisons | [Tyler, Ma, Christina]
These are the
frequency averaged and veto binned plots
for the initial Red Pitaya and CyMAC systems. |
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Thu Jul 27 10:18:43 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | Graphical Updates to HOM RH Modification | Attached are updated graphs of the irradiance
distribution from the 1/8th ring heater units
(extruded and reduced in length). |
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Fri Jul 28 17:45:45 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | Graphical Updates to HOM RH Modification, Friday 7/28 | Updated 1/8th Heater simulation modification
graphs. Slides 7, 10, 16-19 are new additions. |
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Tue Aug 1 16:22:35 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | Graphical Updates to HOM RH Modification, Tuesday 8/1 | Slides 20-33 are newly added (data/graphs
from parameter sweep feature-1/8th heater
unit length varied from 10% of original to |
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Thu Aug 10 14:13:38 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/10/23, Simulation Graphical Progress | |
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Fri Aug 11 10:57:20 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/11/23 Simulation Progress | |
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