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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C
5
6
7
8 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
9
10 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
11 nd MExtractAmplitudeSpline
12
13 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
14
15 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
16
17 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
18
19 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
20
21 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
22 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
23 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
24
25 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
26
27 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
28 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
29 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
30
31 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
32 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
33
34 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
35
36 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
37
38
39
40 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
41
42 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
43 MExtractTimeFastSpline
44
45 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
46 ("pow(a, b)")
47
48 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
49 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
50
51 - added support in MF for expressiond like
52 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
53
54 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
55 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
56 is implemented through the new virtual function
57 MParContainer::SetVariables
58
59 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
60 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
61
62 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
63 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
64
65 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
66 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
67
68 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
69 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
70 and will replace them.
71
72 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
73
74 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
75 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
76 slices in the maximum window
77
78 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
79 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
80 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
81 studies.
82
83 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
84 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
85 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
86 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
87
88 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
89 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
90
91 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
92 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
93 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
94 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
95 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
96 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
97
98 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
99 macro pedphotcalc.C
100
101 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
102
103 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
104
105 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
106 minimizations
107
108 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
109 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
110
111 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
112
113 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
114 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
115 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
116
117 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
118 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
119
120 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
121 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
122
123 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
124
125 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
126
127 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
128
129 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
130
131 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
132
133 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
134 + MJPedestals
135 + MJCalibration
136 + MJExtractSignal
137 Note: All of them are preliminary!
138
139 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
140
141 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
142 the evolution of a sector vs time
143
144
145
146 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
147
148 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
149 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
150 camera version 0.7.
151
152 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
153 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
154
155 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
156
157 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
158 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
159 be done soon.
160
161 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
162 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
163
164 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
165 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
166 of time (readrep.C)
167
168 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
169 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
170 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
171
172 - Changed the name of the event trees:
173 + Events --> Events
174 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
175 + CalEvents --> Calibration
176
177 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
178
179 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
180
181 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
182 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
183
184 - added classes to calculate event rate
185 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
186
187 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
188
189 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
190
191 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
192 the new 'Synchonizer'
193
194
195
196 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
197
198 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
199 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
200 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
201
202 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
203 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
204 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
205
206 - added a new executable star which implements the
207 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
208 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
209
210 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
211 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
212 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
213
214 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
215 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
216
217 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
218
219
220
221 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
222
223 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
224 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
225 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
226 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
227
228 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
229 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
230
231 - added pedestal calculation
232
233 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
234 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
235
236 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
237
238 - added basic routines to apply padding
239
240 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
241 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
242
243 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
244 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
245
246 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
247 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
248
249 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
250 at all)
251
252 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
253 ignore files
254
255 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
256 to simulate the PMT camera
257
258 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
259 programs in the MC chain.
260
261 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
262 parameter in an eventloop.
263
264 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
265 location (Long, Lat, etc)
266
267 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
268
269 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
270 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
271
272 - added a new status display which can show the present status
273 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
274 an example can be found at status.C)
275
276 - reorganized directories:
277 classes describing the image --> mimage
278 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
279 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
280
281 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
282
283 - colors in logging output to screen
284
285 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
286 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
287 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
288 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
289 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
290
291 - reading of reflector files
292
293 - display data from reflector files in the camera
294
295 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
296
297 - logarithmic scale in camera
298
299 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
300
301
302
303 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
304
305 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
306
307 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
308 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
309 missing a single NN)
310
311 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
312 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
313 have any neighbour)
314
315 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
316 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
317 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
318 please ask Abelardo)
319
320 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
321 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
322
323 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
324
325 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
326 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
327 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
328 changed.
329
330 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
331 (MHMatrix)
332
333 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
334 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
335
336 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
337 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
338
339 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
340 event display gui.
341
342 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
343
344 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
345
346 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
347
348 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
349 to MHillas
350
351 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
352
353 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
354
355 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
356
357 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
358
359 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
360 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
361 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
362
363 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
364
365 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
366 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
367
368 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
369 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
370 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
371 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
372 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
373
374 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
375 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
376
377 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
378 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
379
380 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
381 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
382
383 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
384
385 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
386
387 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
388 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
389
390 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
391 (thanks to Raquel)
392
393 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
394 estfit.C) using a parametrization
395
396 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
397 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
398 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
399
400
401
402 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
403
404 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
405 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
406 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
407 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
408
409 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
410 for the collection area calculation
411
412 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
413 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
414
415 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
416 of one container
417
418 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
419 ascii file
420
421 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
422 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
423 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
424 hillas parameters)
425
426 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
427 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
428 see MHillas and MHillasExt
429
430 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
431 see MHillasSrc
432
433 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
434 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
435 all histograms)
436
437 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
438
439 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
440
441 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
442
443 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
444 an output stream instead of the whole container only
445
446 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
447 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
448
449 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
450 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
451
452 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
453 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
454
455 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
456
457 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
458 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
459 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
460
461 - Added:
462 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
463 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
464 they are needed in the flux calculation in
465 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
466 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
467 of Theta and the true energy
468
469 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
470 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
471 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
472 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
473 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
474 by unfolding
475
476 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
477
478
479
480 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
481
482 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
483 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
484 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
485
486 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
487
488 - Introduced verbosity levels
489
490 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
491
492 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
493 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
494
495 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
496 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
497
498 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
499
500 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
501
502 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
503 of a parameter container for each event
504
505 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
506
507 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
508
509 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
510 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
511 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
512
513 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
514 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
515 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
516
517
518
519 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
520
521 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
522
523 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
524 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
525
526 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
527 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
528 states
529
530 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
531 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
532
533 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
534
535 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
536 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
537
538 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
539 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
540
541 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
542 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
543 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
544
545 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
546 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
547
548 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
549 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
550
551 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
552 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
553
554
555
556 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
557
558 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
559
560 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
561
562 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
563
564 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
565
566 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
567
568 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
569
570 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
571
572 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
573
574 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
575 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
576
577
578
579 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
580
581 - Many demo macros added
582
583 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
584
585 - Hillas Calculation added
586
587 - Standard image cleaning available
588
589 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
590 (Remark: of the same structure)
591
592 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
593 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
594 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
595
596
597
598 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
599
600 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
601 gui with the command mars.
602
603
604
605 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
606
607 - First official release 0.1
608
609 - Changes:
610
611 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
612 while-loop
613
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