Aspen: Riles
Caltech: Shawhan
LHO: Ballmer, Fritschel, Landry, Matone, Mavalvala, Ottewill, Raab, Rahkola, Savage, Sigg, Whitcomb
LLO: Adhikari, Arevalo, Coles, Frolov, Gonzalez, Marka, O'Reilly, Sauerwein, Zweizig
Loyola: McHugh
Oregon: Leonor
UWM: Brady

E9 Preparations ( E9 Web Page )

• IFO status (S.Whitcomb, R.Adhikari)
  H1 and H2 both expected to run well during E9, although H2 is still fussy at the moment about going into common mode feedback.
  L1 has not locked since Sunday night, believed to be because of unusually high micro-seismic noise (3-4 times normal). More attempts will be made tonight.
• Critical hardware/software problems? No known show-stoppers. Some new ASC code at LLO seems to work fine.
• Scheduling and special requests:
  
  • The calibration team will begin its full-up calibration procedure at the start of the run. New DC calibrations have been performed at LHO this week and give results consistent with previous measurements. Calibration progress at LLO will depend on progress in establishing lock. A first stab at measuring sensinfg functions and open loop gains will be made tonight at LHO so that SenseMonitor can be fully tested tomorrow. Choices will also be made for the three injected calibration line frequencies (injected differentially on etmx and etmy) and that info conveyed to Sergey and Patrick Sutton for config file updating.
  • The signal injection team will start its work at or after midnight CST on Saturday night. They expect to need a total of two hours, including setting up time. Only a modest subset of planned S2 injections will be carried out during E9. Peter and Szabi will be working at LLO and will get help from Mike at LHO and Isabel at Oregon.

• John has tagged DMT version 2.4.1 for E9 use. Things seem to be working fine at LHO, and will be running soon at LLO. A problem in FrameCPP with checksum generation has been fixed, allowing SenseMonitor trends to be readable in LDAS. 
• SegGener will soon be defining more than one kind of segment in the database to identify good data. At Duncan's request, segments will be specially flagged for which there is signal injection. Final testing of the new SegGener code awaits implementation of some new EPICS channels, expected before E9 begins.
• Three monitors will be run under the process manager for the first time during E9:
• CorrMon (A. Ottewill)
• PTMon (N. Zotov)
• ShapeMon (S. Marka)
• Sergey has a new instantiation of LineMon to track calibration lines in the excitation channels themselves, in order to allow tracking of relative phase changes in the sensing function. 
• PeakMon has a known memory leak that Ed hasn't had time to fix. It now crashes every 2-3 days and will be run on a machine that can crash without affecting critical monitors (gypsum at LHO, nesslin at LLO).

• Patrick and Duncan now have online DSO's running at both sites to give rapid feedback to the control room. In addition to inspiral templates, there will be a burst search job and a generator of "short fourier transform" (SFT) for pulsar searches running and reporting results in the same format.
• The burst job is a first step toward migrating the complete online burst search system into Duncan's integrated monitoring scheme. During E9 Patrick will be at LLO and Duncan at LHO.