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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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423
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Mon Aug 12 16:35:30 2024 |
Luke | Update | | Ringheater modeling Update | |
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422
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Mon Aug 12 16:24:34 2024 |
Tyler | Update | Cleanroom | RIN Measurement Update 1 | [Tyler]
For some preliminary tests,
I moved the IR photodetectors outside of
the cleanroom and onto the other optical |
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421
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Tue Aug 6 13:07:07 2024 |
Xuejun | Update | Interferometer Simulations | | [Xuejun]
The width and location of
the measured in-air change in temperature
profile has been determined to be 0.045m |
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Draft
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Sun Aug 4 09:01:01 2024 |
Michael | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Update on SRC Mode Mismatch Analysis | An update on my analysis to minimize mode
mismatch/scattering by introducing toroidal
mirrors to the SRC. |
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419
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Fri Aug 2 13:50:22 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | Serial Comm. Test (Agilent Turbo Pump) | Did a brief communication test with the agilent
turbo pump today, to see if we could get
serial communications up and running for |
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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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417
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Mon Jul 29 14:30:16 2024 |
Tyler | Update | Cleanroom | RIN Measurement Set-up | [Tyler]
I have begun moving parts
into the cleanroom for the upcoming FROSTI
RIN tests that will be conducted within the |
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416
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Mon Jul 29 13:39:16 2024 |
Tyler | Update | DAQ | RTD Parameter Calibration | [Tyler]
Using the data taken during
the FROSTI testing at Caltech, I attempted
to find a better calibration of the RTD sensors, |
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415
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Mon Jul 29 12:23:10 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Update on mechanical resonances of CE BS with stiffener ring | Update on mechanical resonances of CE BS with
stiffener ring is attached. |
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414
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Mon Jul 29 12:20:56 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Update on wavefront actuation with astigmatically driven RH for CE | Update on wavefront actuation with astigmatically
driven RH for CE is attached. |
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413
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Mon Jul 29 12:18:52 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Update on FROSTI O5 ETM profile optimization | Update on FROSTI O5 ETM profile optimization
is attached. |
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412
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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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411
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Mon Jul 22 18:19:34 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | Zero length reducer stuck bolts | Today, I borrowed a bolt extractor drill
bit from the machine shop to remove some
stuck bolts from the zlr. Before starting, |
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410
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Tue Jul 16 18:43:07 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | ADC-DAC loopback testing and IOLAN installation |
UPDATE:
Follow up ADC-DAC loopback testing
now complete, matching all the ADC channels
to a single DAC channel, and then matching |
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409
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Mon Jul 15 15:52:40 2024 |
Michael | Update | Interferometer Simulations | aLIGO locking with varying SRC mirrors and measuring mode mismatch | |
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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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407
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Mon Jul 15 14:49:06 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Computers | Synology NAS server setup | Installed a Synology NAS server (Synology
RackStation RS1221) in lab room 1129, with
host name “scribe” and ip “192.168.1.17”. |
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406
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Mon Jul 15 14:28:32 2024 |
Pooyan | Update | Interferometer Simulations | aLIGO test mass surface profiles | Created a Google Slides presentation to
summarize all the mirror surface map information
that we use for simulating interferometers. |
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405
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Mon Jul 15 13:30:49 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | Problem with 2.75" to 1.33" zero length reducer | Last Friday while checking the depth of the
ZLR I got one of the screws stuck. Today
I tried a couple things to get it out. First |
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404
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Mon Jul 15 09:36:44 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | ETM Profile Optimization for FROSTI | This is to optimize the FROSTI heating
profile for ETM, by minimizing the residual
RMSE of the HR surface deformation after |
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403
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Sat Jul 13 15:09:04 2024 |
Luke | Update | General | Ring heater COMSL model update | After the feedback from last meeting and
Liu's help narrowing down what I should do
to improve the model. I made some changes: |
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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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401
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Thu Jul 11 15:53:39 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | RGA line upgrade | [ Luke, Jon ]
Started work at 11:00
As mentioned in my previous post |
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400
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Wed Jul 10 17:31:07 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | RGA line disassembly and upgrade | [ Luke, Cynthia, Michael, Xuesi, Anthony
]
Started work around 12:45 |
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399
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Tue Jul 9 18:19:50 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | ADC-DAC loopback testing and IOLAN installation | [Shane, Jon]
Finished ADC-DAC loopback
testing today (see attached xlsx file or
access directly here). |
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398
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Mon Jul 8 17:01:45 2024 |
Shane | Update | CDS | New CyMAC internal layout | [Jon, Shane]
Internal layout of CyMAC has
been updated (labeled image attached) to
accommodate the replacement of the two ribbon |
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397
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Mon Jul 8 12:26:10 2024 |
Michael | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Minimizing Astigmatic Effects in the SRC of LIGO | This is the first look and analysis of the
effects of astigmatism in the aLIGO optical
layout which can lead to mode mismatch and |
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396
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Mon Jul 8 10:39:14 2024 |
Xuejun | Update | FLIR | Average Temperature Profile | After taking data for each of the individual
heater elements, I imported them into python
and overlayed them to produce an average |
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395
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Fri Jul 5 14:23:13 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Engineering drawings for straight edge heater element designs for FROSTI | Step files and engineering drawings for the
straight edge heater element designs have
been created in COMSOL and SolidWorks. They |
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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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393
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Fri Jul 5 13:17:44 2024 |
Liu | Update | Interferometer Simulations | Four-quadrant FROSTI-like RH for astigmatic thermal actuation for CE optics | In the CE corner layout design and down selection
study, interferometer layouts with large
incidence angles on some of the curved optics |
7x |
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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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391
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Mon Jul 1 11:45:45 2024 |
Sid | Update | Interferometer Simulations | | Progress update: Most of last week was spent
getting set up with SIS, and learning how
to do basic simulations. The goal for this |
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390
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Fri Jun 28 18:15:16 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | Vacuum chamber | We will be configuring the RGA line to
remove the spherical cube from the system.
Currently our plan for the new design is |
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389
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Fri Jun 28 10:43:13 2024 |
Xuejun | Update | Cleanroom | Frosti | [Xuejun, Tyler]
We moved Frosti into
the cleanroom and debugged it to make sure
everything was working. One of the DB25 pins |
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388
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Thu Jun 27 13:42:02 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | cleanroom 5 zone particle count measurement | Here's today's 5 zone measurement of the cleanroom.
We're above the limit by a bit in zone three
(all three size ranges), likely as a result |
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387
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Thu Jun 27 11:09:14 2024 |
Liu | Update | Scripts/Programs | Straight edge STEP files and ray loss analysis | Drawings and CAD models of the straight-edge
designs are exported, and are visualized
in SOLIDWORKS. Two are attached. One is a |
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386
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Wed Jun 26 16:39:34 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | Vacuum chamber leak checking | On Tuesday I had isolated the main volume
and let it pump down over-night. Today, Wednesday,
I checked it and it had only gone down by |
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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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384
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Tue Jun 25 17:19:42 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | Vacuum chamber leak checking | Currently our main leak is in the RGA line.
We found this by closing the gate valve from
the main volume to see if which side was |
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383
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Tue Jun 25 12:34:18 2024 |
Shane | Update | Cleanroom | cleanroom cleaning and particle count |
[Luke, Shane,
Xuejun, Mohak, Michael, Tyler, Cynthia]
cleaning
cleanroom and particle count |
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382
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Mon Jun 24 21:38:25 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Computer server changes in 1119 and 1129 | [Jon, Pooyan, Tyler]
A few computer machine changes have |
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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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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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379
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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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378
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Wed Jun 19 18:45:14 2024 |
Luke | Update | | Vacuum chamber reassembly | [Luke, Aiden, Mohak , Tyler]
On Tuesday
we had the silver screws for the spherical
cube shortened by a quarter of an inch so |
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377
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Mon Jun 17 11:47:46 2024 |
Liu | Infrastructure | General | Temporary cooling units for the labs | Below are the temporary cooling units installed
last week in labs 1119 and 1129. They are
the temp. replacement for the building AC |
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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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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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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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