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Fri Mar 31 14:23:13 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Clean and bake batch 11 | Today I bagged and tagged batch 11. I wiped
the some tools: Centering ring alum( 2 pieces),
reversible ratcheting, gasket removal (CF). |
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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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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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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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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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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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30
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Fri Feb 17 19:12:39 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | Clean and Bake batch 3 | Bagged and Tagged batch 2 parts by placing
no more than two parts per ESD bag then taped
them with kapton tape and tagged them with |
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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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146
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Wed Jul 5 16:02:12 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake batch 14 Bagging | Bagged and Tagged the 2.75" copper gaskets
from Batch 14 and placed them into the clean
room on the work bench. |
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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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57
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Fri Mar 24 13:36:17 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Clean and Bake batch 10 | Today I bagged and tagged batch 10.
I wiped
the RGA vacuum component for around 25 minutes
after that I bagged and tagged this part |
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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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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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Mon Nov 27 19:34:50 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 20 Bagging | Bagged and tagged bath 20 which included the
macor hardware and place it inside the clean
room on the table. |
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272
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Mon Nov 20 20:37:45 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Clean and Bake Batch 20 | [Aiden, Luis]
Started to clean and bake the
macor parts for the FROSTI reflector. Per
LIGO documentation cleaned the macor in liquinox |
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237
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Mon Oct 9 21:41:24 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 19 | Bagged and tagged the parts from batch 18.
Started the Copper batch that includes all
the gaskets needed to start the vacuum chamber |
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233
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Sat Oct 7 17:10:27 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 18 | Bagged and tagged the parts from Batch 17
and placed them in the clean room on the
optic table. Also started an aluminum batch |
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232
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Tue Oct 3 15:07:48 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 17 | Cleaned and baked all the stainless steel
parts in Batch 17. Check data base for more
details on this. |
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227
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Thu Sep 28 15:17:13 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 16 | Bagged and Tagged the parts from batch 15
and started baking batch 16 which includes
the 6" to 8" reducer. |
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224
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Tue Sep 12 15:31:31 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 15 | Cleaned and Baked the SS screws for the heater
mount. Check the Clean and Bake data base
on the website to get a precise list of the |
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126
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Fri Jun 16 17:40:28 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 14 | Cleaned and Baked the new and 2.75" copper
gaskets for the vacuum system. Cleaned them
with liquinox in the ultra sonic washer for |
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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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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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Tue Feb 7 17:27:30 2023 |
Aiden | Physics | ELOG | Clean and Bake Batch #1 | Cleaned SS parts with liquinox for 20 min.
Then put in oven for 5 steps;
1. Ramp, 100
degC, 15 min
2. Const, 100 degC, 30 min
3. |
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356
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Wed Mar 27 00:03:57 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Computers | Chimay relocation to Physics 1129 | [Jon, Pooyan]
Moved Chimay from
the server rack in Physics 1119 to a new
rack in Physics 1129. It is connected to |
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437
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Mon Sep 9 14:27:36 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Chimay backup attempt | One ongoing work is to make all lab machines
automatically backed-up on Scribe on a daily
basis. The updates should be boatable and |
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171
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Mon Jul 24 16:19:29 2023 |
Shane, Jon | Update | Electronics | Chassis semi-assembled and moved | Began assembly on AA and AI chassis today,
moved them both to top work bench shelf (image
attached). They are delicate so please do |
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95
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Tue May 9 20:55:12 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Calibrated Ar leak rate | For future reference, the calibrated Argon
source has a leak rate of 7.55E-8
atm cc/s, or equivalently |
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353
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Sun Mar 24 11:50:37 2024 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Cal Tech FROSTI Parts | Bagged the FROSTI legs and feet after the
conclusion of the clean and bake. They are
double bagged and sitting in the flow bench. |
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326
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Tue Feb 13 13:02:41 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Cacity sacn of Fabry-Perot | Created a simple model of Fabry-Perot cavity
in SIS, and did a cavity scan. Total power
in the cavity, 00 mode, and HOMs is measured. |
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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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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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44
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Mon Mar 6 15:32:58 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation completed | Jon, Cao, Peter
This morning Facilities delivered
and installed two new cabinets with sliding |
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303
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Mon Jan 15 22:29:34 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation & lab clean-up completed | [Jon, Tyler, Aiden, Shane, Pooyan, Michael,
Cynthia, Luke]
On Wednesday, we completed long list |
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376
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Fri Jun 14 13:32:13 2024 |
Liu | Update | Scripts/Programs | COMSOL simulation on rectangular heater elements design | I have been looking at the feasibility
of an alternative heater element design for
FROSTI that replaces the original ring-like |
6x |
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380
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Fri Jun 21 11:47:30 2024 |
Liu | Update | Scripts/Programs | COMSOL simulation on alternative straightened heater elements design | In the previous post, we saw
that for the heater element design with straight |
6x |
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375
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Mon Jun 10 14:52:38 2024 |
Tyler | Update | FLIR | CIT FROSTI Analysis Update | [Tyler]
Upon further inspection, one
adjustment was made to the FROSTI profile
analysis: changing the transmission value |
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675
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Thu Jan 29 12:46:22 2026 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | | CE Cavity Design Update (4) | Update for CE Cavity Arms + Modes
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-dXYylkAbNpHR4WVCx9Q8ryL_xGlH-JSSLXEUQg6b7Q/edit?usp=sharing
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586
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Tue Jun 3 11:54:06 2025 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | | CE Cavity Design Update | Update on the design for the CE Cavity Mirrors |
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659
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Thu Nov 6 12:39:43 2025 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | ELOG | CE Cavity Design Update | Updated mode placements and ROC. No thermal
effects added yet. |
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663
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Thu Nov 20 13:03:58 2025 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | ELOG | CE Cavity Design Update | Update on grouping 0+8th Order Modes |
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683
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Thu Feb 12 12:53:51 2026 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | ELOG | CE Cavity Design Update | Update on HOM placement w/ cavity locking.
Still verifying mode placement
RoC: 28340m
and 26874m |
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Draft
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Thu Mar 12 13:18:49 2026 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | Interferometer Simulations | CE Cavity Design Update | Animation showing how modes shift in the CE
arm cavity for radius 27581m and mirror radius
of40cm as the laser powers up the 1.5 MW. |
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Thu Apr 23 11:32:48 2026 |
Cece Ochoa | Update | Interferometer Simulations | CE Cavity Design Update | Update on CE Mirror RoC, simulation with FROSTI
and cavity locking
View Presentation |
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394
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Fri Jul 5 14:12:32 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | CE BS Mechanical Resonances | The butterfly and drumhead mechanical modes
for the aLIGO BS were calculated in COMSOL.
The resonant frequencies for the two acoustic |
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585
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Tue Jun 3 11:50:08 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update | There are three major issues with the lab's
CDS system that should be addressed. They
are ordered from the highest priority to |
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590
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Tue Jun 10 12:11:14 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update |
The MEDM models issue was fixed.
The issue was that building the c1msc model
alone was not enough and we had to re-build |
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592
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Wed Jun 11 16:19:37 2025 |
Pooyan | Update | CDS | CDS update |
Fast channels recorded to .gwf frame
files
Had to add a DAQ Channels
block to the c1msc model for those channel |
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321
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Tue Feb 13 01:26:30 2024 |
Peter | Update | Interferometer Simulations | CARM Power Simulations | Cao's simulations of the circulating power
and gouy phase through a single arm cavity
of the interferometer have been reproduced. |
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Wed Aug 9 17:35:26 2023 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Binary output chassis finished | Finished the internal wiring for the binary
output chassis today, which completes its
assembly. Also secured ribbon cables and |
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