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2 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
3
4 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
5 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
6 camera version 0.7.
7
8 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
9 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
10
11 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
12
13 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
14 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
15 be done soon.
16
17 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
18 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
19
20 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
21 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
22 of time (readrep.C)
23
24 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
25 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
26 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
27
28 - Changed the name of the event trees:
29 + Events --> Events
30 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
31 + CalEvents --> Calibration
32
33 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
34
35 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
36
37 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
38 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
39
40 - added classes to calculate event rate
41 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
42
43 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
44
45 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
46
47 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
48 the new 'Synchonizer'
49
50
51
52 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
53
54 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
55 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
56 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
57
58 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
59 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
60 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
61
62 - added a new executable star which implements the
63 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
64 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
65
66 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
67 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
68 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
69
70 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
71 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
72
73 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
74
75
76
77 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
78
79 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
80 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
81 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
82 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
83
84 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
85 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
86
87 - added pedestal calculation
88
89 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
90 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
91
92 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
93
94 - added basic routines to apply padding
95
96 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
97 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
98
99 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
100 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
101
102 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
103 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
104
105 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
106 at all)
107
108 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
109 ignore files
110
111 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
112 to simulate the PMT camera
113
114 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
115 programs in the MC chain.
116
117 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
118 parameter in an eventloop.
119
120 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
121 location (Long, Lat, etc)
122
123 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
124
125 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
126 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
127
128 - added a new status display which can show the present status
129 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
130 an example can be found at status.C)
131
132 - reorganized directories:
133 classes describing the image --> mimage
134 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
135 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
136
137 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
138
139 - colors in logging output to screen
140
141 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
142 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
143 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
144 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
145 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
146
147 - reading of reflector files
148
149 - display data from reflector files in the camera
150
151 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
152
153 - logarithmic scale in camera
154
155 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
156
157
158
159 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
160
161 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
162
163 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
164 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
165 missing a single NN)
166
167 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
168 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
169 have any neighbour)
170
171 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
172 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
173 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
174 please ask Abelardo)
175
176 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
177 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
178
179 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
180
181 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
182 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
183 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
184 changed.
185
186 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
187 (MHMatrix)
188
189 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
190 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
191
192 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
193 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
194
195 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
196 event display gui.
197
198 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
199
200 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
201
202 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
203
204 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
205 to MHillas
206
207 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
208
209 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
210
211 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
212
213 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
214
215 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
216 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
217 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
218
219 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
220
221 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
222 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
223
224 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
225 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
226 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
227 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
228 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
229
230 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
231 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
232
233 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
234 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
235
236 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
237 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
238
239 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
240
241 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
242
243 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
244 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
245
246 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
247 (thanks to Raquel)
248
249 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
250 estfit.C) using a parametrization
251
252 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
253 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
254 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
255
256
257
258 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
259
260 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
261 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
262 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
263 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
264
265 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
266 for the collection area calculation
267
268 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
269 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
270
271 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
272 of one container
273
274 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
275 ascii file
276
277 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
278 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
279 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
280 hillas parameters)
281
282 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
283 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
284 see MHillas and MHillasExt
285
286 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
287 see MHillasSrc
288
289 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
290 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
291 all histograms)
292
293 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
294
295 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
296
297 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
298
299 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
300 an output stream instead of the whole container only
301
302 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
303 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
304
305 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
306 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
307
308 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
309 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
310
311 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
312
313 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
314 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
315 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
316
317 - Added:
318 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
319 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
320 they are needed in the flux calculation in
321 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
322 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
323 of Theta and the true energy
324
325 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
326 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
327 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
328 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
329 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
330 by unfolding
331
332 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
333
334
335
336 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
337
338 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
339 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
340 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
341
342 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
343
344 - Introduced verbosity levels
345
346 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
347
348 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
349 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
350
351 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
352 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
353
354 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
355
356 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
357
358 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
359 of a parameter container for each event
360
361 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
362
363 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
364
365 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
366 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
367 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
368
369 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
370 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
371 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
372
373
374
375 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
376
377 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
378
379 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
380 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
381
382 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
383 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
384 states
385
386 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
387 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
388
389 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
390
391 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
392 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
393
394 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
395 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
396
397 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
398 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
399 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
400
401 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
402 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
403
404 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
405 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
406
407 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
408 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
409
410
411
412 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
413
414 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
415
416 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
417
418 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
419
420 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
421
422 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
423
424 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
425
426 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
427
428 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
429
430 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
431 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
432
433
434
435 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
436
437 - Many demo macros added
438
439 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
440
441 - Hillas Calculation added
442
443 - Standard image cleaning available
444
445 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
446 (Remark: of the same structure)
447
448 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
449 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
450 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
451
452
453
454 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
455
456 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
457 gui with the command mars.
458
459
460
461 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
462
463 - First official release 0.1
464
465 - Changes:
466
467 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
468 while-loop
469
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