Reports until 08:10, Thursday 13 November 2025
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:10, Thursday 13 November 2025 (88085)
EY vacuum glitch at beam tube ion pump 03:00:16 Thu 13 Nov 2025 PST

VACSTAT detected a vacuum glitch at 03:00:24 this morning originating with PT427 (EY beam tube ion pump station, about 1000 feet from EY). The vacuum pressure rapidly increased from 1.4e-09 to 1.4e-07 Torr. It then rapidly pumped back down to nominal in 8 seconds. The glitch was detected soon afterwards by all of the gauges in EY. They only increased  from around 1.0e-09 to 2.0e-09 and they took around 25 minutes to pump down.

The glitch was seen at MY as a much reduced amplitude about 6 minutes after the event.

H1 was not locked at the time.

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