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Author |
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Category |
Subject |
Text |
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491
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Tue Dec 17 13:53:53 2024 |
Luis | Update | VAC | Vacuum system status | [Luis]
The vacuum system is being
baked. I disconnected the digital gages and
the magnets, opened the Ar leak and started |
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493
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Thu Dec 19 12:00:44 2024 |
Luke | Update | VAC | End of bake | The
vacuum chamber has stopped baking.
Current state as of 11:40, 12/19/2024: |
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494
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Sun Dec 22 20:43:35 2024 |
Luis | Update | VAC | MR Testing | [Luis, Luke]
RGA Volume:
T = 23°C, P = 3.0e-9 Torr
Main Volume: |
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496
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Thu Jan 2 17:52:58 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | MR Testing Continuation | [Luis, Luke]
RGA Volume:
T = 22°C, P = 2.10e-9 Torr
Main Volume: |
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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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510
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Tue Feb 11 08:07:02 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | Bake stopped | [Luis, Ma]
Feb/10/25 4:00pm
Bake was stopped. |
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511
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Fri Feb 14 11:57:50 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | Vacuum Update | [Luis]
Feb/11/25 9:30am
Pressure gages were connected. |
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512
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Fri Feb 14 12:15:23 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | Vacuum sytem staus |
[Luis, Luke, Ma]
February 12, 2025 - 4:00
PM |
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517
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Tue Feb 18 11:19:13 2025 |
Luke | Configuration | VAC | Repositioning of the lid's temperature probe | Before the recent bake I slightly repositioned
the temperature probe on the lid from beside
the heater tape to under the heater tape. |
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519
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Thu Feb 20 17:07:36 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | RGA Scan | [Ma, Luis]
February 20, 2025 - 3:30
PM |
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522
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Mon Feb 24 17:50:13 2025 |
Luis | Update | VAC | RGA Scan | [Ma, Luis]
February 24, 2025 - 1:00PM
Ma performed an RGA scan with |
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11
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Mon Oct 3 17:21:39 2022 |
Cao | Update | TCS | Inspection of macor parts | The macor parts arrived and inspected today.
These include:
Macor spacer
(drawing: LIGO_Redesign_Macor_Spacer_Drawing_v4.pdf |
7x |
173
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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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180
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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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187
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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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200
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Thu Aug 10 14:13:38 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/10/23, Simulation Graphical Progress | |
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204
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Fri Aug 11 10:57:20 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/11/23 Simulation Progress | |
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209
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Tue Aug 15 16:10:06 2023 |
Celeste | Update | TCS | 8/15/2023 Simulation Progress | |
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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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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 |
7x |
345
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Wed Feb 28 17:49:18 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI Assembly - Days 2-3 | [Aiden, Jon, Luis, Luke, Michael, Tyler]
FROSTI
assembly was completed today. The RTD and
power wires were terminated at the DB-25 |
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347
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Wed Mar 6 09:57:52 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI Wiring | Upon finishing the FROSTI assembly last
week, we ran into some electrical issues.
An electrical short was found between two |
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442
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Mon Sep 16 14:59:51 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FLIR RIN Update 09/16 |
Below is the dark noise spectrum of the
Red Pitaya, which was measured over the course
of a weekend. Additionally, I have successfully |
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453
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Wed Oct 2 12:20:43 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | Updated FROSTI Analysis 10/02/2024 | Attached below are updates on current FROSTI
prototype analysis. |
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457
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Wed Oct 9 13:52:31 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | RIN Update 10/09/2024 | I tried adjusting the gain settings on
the photodetectors to check if this would
help improve the RIN spectra measurements. |
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492
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Wed Dec 18 15:41:56 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI RIN | [Tyler]
I have begun the (hopefully)
final RIN measurements at 3:30 PM today.
If you need to go into the cleanroom at any |
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495
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Mon Dec 23 14:33:36 2024 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | Latest RIN Measurement Results | Attached below are the measurements I took
from the FROSTI from 12/18-12/22. |
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498
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Tue Jan 14 10:27:14 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | RIN Updates | [Tyler]
Attached below are updated
plots for the FROSTI RIN measurements for
Jan 14 group meeting.
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499
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Fri Jan 17 13:27:07 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI Pre-disassembly | [Tyler, Ma, Cece, Jon, Luke, Cynthia, Michael]
On
Tuesday, we prepared the FROSTI for disassembly
in anticipation of the APS filming that is |
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501
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Wed Jan 22 10:50:08 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI Disassembly | [Tyler, Ma, Cece, Luis, Shane, Luke, Cynthia,
Liu, Jon]
On Tuesday (Jan 21), we took
the FROSTI apart in front of a filming crew. |
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516
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Tue Feb 18 10:12:39 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | Final RIN Plot Update |
Below is a preview of the final RIN figure
that will be included in the FROSTI instrument
paper. A quick summary of what is shown below:
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531
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Tue Mar 4 10:28:58 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | RIN Plot Updates | |
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542
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Tue Mar 25 12:56:47 2025 |
Tyler | Update | TCS | FROSTI Analysis Finalization | Upon final review of the FROSTI analysis
included in the (hopefully) soon-to-be submitted
instrument paper, I've made some adjustments |
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162
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Tue Jul 18 14:13:46 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis | We [Sophia and Tyler] have found a code which
will partition our data and generate PSD's
and CSD's automatically. We are now in the |
6x |
174
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Thu Jul 27 11:28:36 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | This week I have successfully been able to
implement our dynamic CSD and PSD plotting
code, but along the way I encountered a few |
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175
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Thu Jul 27 14:11:42 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | Here's a screen recording of the dynamic raw
data and PSD/CSD plots as they are now. Will
begin working on implementing a code to generate |
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183
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Mon Jul 31 19:27:30 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | An update on the CSD/PSD code:
The code
is now taking a dynamic average of the points,
and that has significantly reduced the noise |
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186
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Tue Aug 1 15:44:31 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | We have identified two problems facing the
intensity noise calculations, which we are
working to solve.
The first of these |
6x |
194
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Mon Aug 7 15:36:18 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | Today I was able to fix the red pitaya's plotting
problem, and get my code to recognize driving
frequencies from the function generator to |
7x |
196
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Tue Aug 8 16:47:11 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | We have fixed our rapid plotting error, and
realized that this has not been affecting
our data intake! Below is a video of the |
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206
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Tue Aug 15 10:35:00 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | I have successfully added a button to my graphics,
but it has posed a strange issue with the
CSD and PSD values. When I plot my original |
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207
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Tue Aug 15 13:32:37 2023 |
Sophia | Update | Scripts/Programs | Update on Laser Noise Data Collection and Analysis: Dynamic CSD and PSD Plots | I have now fixed all issues that I was having
this morning, and have added text boxes which
show the peak values of both PSD's and the |
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249
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Mon Oct 30 11:03:56 2023 |
Tyler | Update | Scripts/Programs | |
FLIR: After some adjustments, the plot
generated from the FLIR measurements look
much more symmetric (see attachment). There |
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317
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Tue Feb 6 22:40:25 2024 |
Michael | Update | Scripts/Programs | Long Crab 1 Design Created In Gtrace | Worked on and completed the python code for
the simulation of the Long Crab 1 layout
for Cosmic Explorer basing off of Pooyan's |
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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 |
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 |
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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447
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Mon Sep 23 15:11:21 2024 |
Tyler | Update | Scripts/Programs | Effective Emissivity Analysis and RIN Update | A quick update on the effective emissivity
analysis for the CIT FROSTI testing:
I was able to (roughly) match |
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521
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Sun Feb 23 16:00:07 2025 |
Luke | Update | Scripts/Programs | Ringheater modeling Update | These are some plots:
The first shows the convergence of
the 02 mode reducing the size of the mesh. |
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541
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Sun Mar 23 15:39:06 2025 |
Luke Johnson | Update | Scripts/Programs | Ringheater Location optimization | Attached are some plots that show a new parameter
sweep with a finer mesh then before. I have
also been able to get a heatmap of power |
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