aLIGO IAS Alignment Solutions

Document #:

LIGO-E1200797-v9

Document type:

E - Engineering documents

Abstract:

This is primarily an index entry in the DCC to collect links to initial alignment solutions. The provided links are to notebooks which calculate/provide the positions and orientations of the IAS theodolite-total-station/autocolimator for initial alignment and positioning of the primary optics. They also calculate/provide the pitch angles of the COC relative to the local horizontal. The alignment solutions (angles, positions/distances) caluclated in this notebook are to be inserted into each of the IAS alignment procedures.
Since there is one common Mathematica notebook used to calculate these alignment solutions, it is filed under this DCC entry. Occasionally specific variants are filed under the subsidiary DCC numbers, but the intent is to keep the most up-to-date version filed under this DCC entry.

Files in Document:

• E1200797-v9 aligo IAS alignment solutions.pdf (464.4 kB)

Other Files:

• E1200797-v9 aligo IAS alignment solutions.nb (1.6 MB)

Topics:

• System Engineering
• Installation
• Auxiliary Optics

Authors:

• Dennis Coyne

Notes and Changes:

v9: Added calculation of L1 SR2 alignment (check on Ken Mason’s proposed solution sent in 4/19/2013 email)

Related Documents:

• LIGO-E1200556: aLIGO IAS LBSC2 Alignment Solutions
• LIGO-E1200798: aLIGO IAS WBSC2 Alignment Solutions
• LIGO-E1200802: aLIGO IAS L1 PRC Alignment Solutions
• LIGO-E1100734: Advanced LIGO Initial Alignment Procedures

Referenced by:

• LIGO-E1200485: AOS IAS - Initial Alignment Document Tree (Index)
• LIGO-T2000417-v7: NCAL Prototype H1 Surveying Distance Measurement