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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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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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605
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Mon Jul 7 17:44:04 2025 |
Tyler | Update | General | Lab Organization | [Tyler, Pooyan, Ma, Cece, Luke, Luis, Christina,
Maple]
After acquiring some new equipment
for the labs, a few of us spent time on Thursday |
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606
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Tue Jul 8 11:46:55 2025 |
Maple Matzner | Update | TCS | Update on SURF progress for Jul 8 | |
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607
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Tue Jul 8 12:15:04 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | CyMAC ADC Noise Update | [Tyler, Christina, Ma, Mary]
Below is
attached the ADC noise floor of two CyMAC
channels vs the Red Pitaya. |
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608
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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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610
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Mon Jul 14 23:50:22 2025 |
Tyler | Update | | Cymac ADC update | I've been looking into the performances
of individual channels on the Cymac by computing
their individual PSDs and corresponding CSDs |
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611
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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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616
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Tue Jul 29 11:27:57 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# | |
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617
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Tue Jul 29 11:45:19 2025 |
Maple | Update | TCS | Meeting update | |
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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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620
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Thu Jul 31 14:26:58 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | | [Tyler, Ma, Christina, Maple, Cece, Mary,
Pooyan, Audrey]
We started by cleaning outside of |
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621
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Tue Aug 5 11:25:17 2025 |
Mary | Update | | point absorber and coated aperture in A# | Simulating how point absorber defects on
Advanced LIGO mirrors affect cavity performance
by modeling a 4km LIGO-like arm cavity with |
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622
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Tue Aug 5 12:21:04 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | FROSTI A# optimization | A# multi-ring FROSTI optimization |
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623
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Wed Aug 6 16:31:37 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Update | | |
Date and Time:
Around 4:20 PM on Auguest 6, 2025
Location and Temperature: |
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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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625
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Tue Aug 12 12:16:21 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# | Multi-ring FROSTI optimization for A# with
static polishing |
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626
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Tue Aug 12 12:35:19 2025 |
Tyler | Update | | CyMAC ADC Update | [Christina, Ma, Tyler]
Updated CyMAC
measurement, comparing 260 hrs of measurement
time vs. 405 hrs. |
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627
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Tue Aug 12 13:28:00 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | RH Fenicsx v. HV | |
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628
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Tue Aug 12 13:32:43 2025 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | | Differences in Fused Silica parameters. |
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629
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Tue Aug 12 13:46:56 2025 |
Christina | Update | | | |
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630
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Tue Aug 12 13:49:24 2025 |
Mary | Update | | point absorber and coated aperture in A# | |
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10
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Wed Aug 17 16:04:30 2022 |
Phoebe Zyla | Summary | Lore | Testing the Cartridge Heater and Collecting FLIR Data | We have tested the heater to find emissivity,
mounted the heater system to the optical
table, and have taken irradiance maps of |
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19
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Fri Feb 3 13:04:04 2023 |
shane | Summary | General | clean room particle counts 1/25/23 | Clean room count graphs for each zone (as
of January 25, 2023) attached |
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29
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Mon Feb 13 18:57:53 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 2 | Cleaned second batch of SS parts with liquinox
for 20 min. Then put in oven for 5 steps;
1. Ramp, 100 degC, 15 min 2. Const, 100 degC, |
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31
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Tue Feb 21 17:51:04 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 4 | Bagged and Tagged batch 3 parts by placing
no more than two part numbers per bag and
taped them with kapton tape and labeled them |
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38
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Tue Feb 28 19:37:22 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 5 | Bagged and Tagged batch 4 parts by placing
no more than two part numbers per bag and
taped them with kapton tape and labeled them |
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42
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Fri Mar 3 19:13:33 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake Batch 6 | Started to clean the dirtiest of the valves.
I could not finish but I definitely made
good progress on it. The MDC valve is very |
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47
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Wed Mar 8 19:29:00 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 7 | Today gave another cleaning to the MDC gate
valve. It is still very dirty an will need
more cleaning. I also cleaned the other 3 |
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51
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Tue Mar 14 18:21:41 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 8 | Starting off Peter and I refilled the deionized
water barrel.
Then Aiden Cleaned and Bake
the FROSTI arms and bases in liquinox for |
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52
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Fri Mar 17 19:46:39 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 9 | Bagged and Tagged the reflector arms and bases
and placed them inside the clean room. Total
of 2 bags used. Cleaned and Baked parts in |
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60
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Mon Apr 3 17:04:05 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | IDP Scroll Pump Assembly | Aiden installed the isolation valve and the
exhaust silencer kits on the IDP-3 Scroll
pump. The entire assembly still needs to |
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69
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Wed Apr 12 10:53:02 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Valve Cleaning | Bagged and Tagged the parts from batch 10
and placed them inside the clean room.
Then
cleaned the last gate valve in liquinox for |
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72
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Mon Apr 17 17:06:49 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 11 | Cleaned the Viton O-Ring for the main chamber
in Liquinox for 10 minutes. Then put it in
the oven to back for;
1. Ramp to 100 degC |
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77
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Mon Apr 24 17:38:45 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake Batch 12 | Today I Bagged and tagged the o-rings from
batch 11 and placed them inside the clean
room. I also cleaned batch 12 parts in liquinox |
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80
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Thu Apr 27 09:48:34 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Batch 12 Bagging | I took batch 12 out of the oven and put them
in a bag and placed the bag inside the clean
room in the first large stainless steel container.
I |
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86
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Fri Apr 28 19:39:19 2023 |
Cao | Summary | General | Clean and Bake Leybold TTR 91 Pirani Gauge |
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111
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Wed May 31 16:18:41 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Mock FROSTI | Finished assembly on the Mock FROSTI so it
is ready for the fit test at LIGO lab. |
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121
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Tue Jun 13 13:25:05 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 13 | Cleaned and Baked the new 1.33" and 2.75"
blanks for the vacuum system. Cleaned them
with liquinox in the ultra sonic washer for |
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148
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Thu Jul 6 16:16:03 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Pressure Measured Before Removing Gauge
2.31 E-7 Torr.
Went in and turned
on the heating tape in increments of 30 degC |
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291
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Mon Dec 11 16:20:17 2023 |
Jon | Summary | TCS | FROSTI Assembly Procedure | Below is the procedure we will follow to
assemble the FROSTI prototype.
Install SS guide rods and |
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312
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Wed Jan 31 14:37:26 2024 |
Shane | Summary | CDS | path directions for CyMAC model and parts library | Path to cds parts library in Matlab simulink:
/usr/share/advligorts/src/src/epics/simLink.
File name CDS_PARTS.mdl
Path to user models: |
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472
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Thu Nov 14 10:46:20 2024 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning |
[Luke, Luis, Michael]
cleaning cleanroom and particle count |
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478
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Wed Nov 27 12:27:45 2024 |
Luke | Summary | VAC | Summary of vacuum work | [Luke, Luis]
Update of current state of vacuum
chamber |
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497
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Wed Jan 8 17:35:57 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Tyler, Cynthia, Shane, Michael]
Summary of Cleaning Activities:
We began cleaning Room 1119 at 2:00 |
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500
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Tue Jan 21 10:12:02 2025 |
Luke | Summary | General | Frosti toy model | [Luke, Liu]
Over the winter break I have been
working on this |
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507
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Sat Feb 1 17:25:52 2025 |
Luke | Summary | General | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Cece, Luis]
Particle Count Measurements:
Pre-cleaning (12:15 |
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509
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Fri Feb 7 12:25:56 2025 |
Luke | Summary | VAC | Started bake | [Luke, Luis]
The
vacuum chamber is currently baking. |
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520
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Sun Feb 23 12:11:43 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Mary, Luis]
Particle Count Measurements:
Pre-cleaning (8:40 |
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