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3 *** Version 0.9
4
5 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
6 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
7 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
8 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
9
10 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
11 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
12
13 - added pedestal calculation
14
15 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
16 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
17
18 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
19
20 - added basic routines to apply padding
21
22 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
23 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
24
25 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
26 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
27
28 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
29 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
30
31 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
32 at all)
33
34 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
35 ignore files
36
37 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
38 to simulate the PMT camera
39
40 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
41 programs in the MC chain.
42
43 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
44 parameter in an eventloop.
45
46 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
47 location (Long, Lat, etc)
48
49 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
50
51 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02)
52 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
53
54 - added a new status display which can show the present status
55 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
56 an example can be found at status.C)
57
58 - reorganized directories:
59 classes describing the image --> mimage
60 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
61 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
62
63 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
64
65 - colors in logging output to screen
66
67 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
68 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
69 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
70 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
71 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
72
73 - reading of reflector files
74
75 - display data from reflector files in the camera
76
77 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
78
79 - logarithmic scale in camera
80
81 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
82
83
84
85 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
86
87 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
88
89 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
90 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
91 missing a single NN)
92
93 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
94 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
95 have any neighbour)
96
97 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
98 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
99 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
100 please ask Abelardo)
101
102 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
103 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
104
105 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
106
107 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
108 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
109 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
110 changed.
111
112 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
113 (MHMatrix)
114
115 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
116 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
117
118 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
119 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
120
121 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
122 event display gui.
123
124 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
125
126 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
127
128 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
129
130 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
131 to MHillas
132
133 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
134
135 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
136
137 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
138
139 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
140
141 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
142 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
143 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
144
145 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
146
147 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
148 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
149
150 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
151 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
152 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
153 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
154 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
155
156 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
157 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
158
159 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
160 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
161
162 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
163 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
164
165 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
166
167 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
168
169 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
170 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
171
172 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
173 (thanks to Raquel)
174
175 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
176 estfit.C) using a parametrization
177
178 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
179 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
180 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
181
182
183
184 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
185
186 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
187 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
188 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
189 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
190
191 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
192 for the collection area calculation
193
194 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
195 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
196
197 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
198 of one container
199
200 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
201 ascii file
202
203 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
204 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
205 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
206 hillas parameters)
207
208 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
209 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
210 see MHillas and MHillasExt
211
212 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
213 see MHillasSrc
214
215 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
216 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
217 all histograms)
218
219 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
220
221 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
222
223 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
224
225 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
226 an output stream instead of the whole container only
227
228 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
229 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
230
231 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
232 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
233
234 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
235 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
236
237 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
238
239 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
240 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
241 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
242
243 - Added:
244 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
245 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
246 they are needed in the flux calculation in
247 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
248 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
249 of Theta and the true energy
250
251 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
252 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
253 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
254 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
255 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
256 by unfolding
257
258 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
259
260
261
262 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
263
264 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
265 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
266 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
267
268 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
269
270 - Introduced verbosity levels
271
272 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
273
274 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
275 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
276
277 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
278 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
279
280 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
281
282 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
283
284 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
285 of a parameter container for each event
286
287 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
288
289 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
290
291 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
292 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
293 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
294
295 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
296 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
297 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
298
299
300
301 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
302
303 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
304
305 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
306 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
307
308 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
309 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
310 states
311
312 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
313 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
314
315 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
316
317 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
318 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
319
320 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
321 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
322
323 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
324 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
325 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
326
327 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
328 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
329
330 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
331 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
332
333 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
334 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
335
336
337
338 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
339
340 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
341
342 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
343
344 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
345
346 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
347
348 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
349
350 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
351
352 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
353
354 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
355
356 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
357 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
358
359
360
361 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
362
363 - Many demo macros added
364
365 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
366
367 - Hillas Calculation added
368
369 - Standard image cleaning available
370
371 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
372 (Remark: of the same structure)
373
374 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
375 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
376 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
377
378
379
380 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
381
382 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
383 gui with the command mars.
384
385
386
387 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
388
389 - First official release 0.1
390
391 - Changes:
392
393 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
394 while-loop
395
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