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3 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
4
5 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
6 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
7
8 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
9 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
10 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
11
12 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterLIst class which
13 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
14
15 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
16
17 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
18
19 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
20 after 6.3.2006
21
22 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
23 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
24 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
25 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
26
27 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
28 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
29 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
30 Recommended parameters:
31 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
32 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
33 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
34 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
35
36 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
37 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
38 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
39 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
40 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
41 time-scale) are missing.
42
43 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
44 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
45 people for weak sources.
46
47 - macros: plotdb.C:
48 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
49 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
50 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
51 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
52
53 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
54 the optimization became a lot faster
55
56 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
57 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
58
59 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
60 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
61 initialization of the starguider calibration
62
63 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
64 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
65 resource file using:
66 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
67 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
68
69 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
70 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
71 The bug did not effect the results at all.
72
73 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
74 trigger (including the software trigger)
75
76 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
77 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
78 a defined energy:
79 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
80
81 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
82 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
83
84
85
86 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
87
88 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
89 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
90
91 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
92 to plot statistics about the data processing
93
94 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
95 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
96
97 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
98
99 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
100 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
101 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
102 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
103
104 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
105 different values for different periods
106
107 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
108 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
109 effective on-time)
110
111 - star: Added two new image parameters:
112 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
113 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
114 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
115 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
116
117 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
118
119 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
120 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
121 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
122 + the anti theta cut is better supported
123 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
124 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
125
126 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
127 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
128
129 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
130
131 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
132 to 0.06
133
134 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
135 resource file.
136 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
137
138 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
139 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
140 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
141 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
142 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
143
144 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
145 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
146
147 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
148 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
149 on-data.
150
151
152
153 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
154
155 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
156 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
157
158 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
159 are now possible:
160 showlog callisto 55599
161 showplot signal 55599
162 star 55599
163 callisto 55999
164 ganymed 2
165 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
166 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
167 paths ("/magic/*")
168
169 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
170 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
171
172 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
173 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
174
175 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
176 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
177 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
178 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
179
180 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
181 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
182 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
183 forest.
184
185 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
186 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
187 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
188
189 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
190 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
191
192 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
193 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
194
195 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
196 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
197 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
198 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
199 size ratio.
200
201 - RanForest:
202 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
203 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
204 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
205 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
206 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
207 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
208 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
209 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
210
211 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
212 the events to be displayed, eg:
213 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
214 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
215 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
216
217 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
218 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
219 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
220 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
221 written to the CC tree.
222
223 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
224 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
225 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
226 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
227 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
228 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
229
230 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
231 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
232 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
233 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
234
235 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
236 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
237 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
238
239 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
240 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
241
242 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
243 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
244 --ins=/magic/sequences
245 and where to search for the image data
246 --ind=/magic/data/star
247
248 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
249 dx/dy from the resource file by
250 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
251 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
252
253 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
254 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
255 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
256 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
257 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
258 in addition to its name to the logging output.
259
260 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
261 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
262 for on-only analysis'
263
264 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
265 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
266
267 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
268
269 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
270 they are commonly used.
271
272 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
273 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
274
275
276
277 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
278
279 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
280 how to calculate the threshold
281
282 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
283 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
284 and MagicReversi)
285
286 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
287
288 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
289
290 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
291 resource file resources/calibration.rc
292
293 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
294 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
295 automatic processing
296
297 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
298 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
299 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
300 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
301 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
302 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
303
304 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
305 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
306 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
307 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
308 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
309 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
310 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
311 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
312 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
313 be supressed.
314
315 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
316 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
317 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
318 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
319 algorithm)
320
321 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
322 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
323 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
324 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
325 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
326 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
327 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
328
329 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
330 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
331 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
332 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
333 understood.
334
335 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
336 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
337 are sorted by their sequence number.
338
339 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
340
341 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
342
343
344
345 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
346
347 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
348 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
349 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
350 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
351
352 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
353 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
354 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
355
356 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
357 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
358
359
360
361 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
362
363 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
364 MC binning
365
366 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
367 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
368
369 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
370
371 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
372
373 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
374
375 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
376
377 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
378 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
379
380 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
381 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
382 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
383 of the subsystem data
384
385 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
386 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
387
388 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
389 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
390
391 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
392
393 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
394
395 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
396
397 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
398
399 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
400 argument
401
402 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
403 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
404 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
405 (MCameraHV).
406
407 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
408 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
409
410 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
411 menu, eg in the TBrowser
412
413 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
414 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
415 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
416 This is important mainly for timing studies.
417
418 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
419 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
420 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
421 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
422 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
423 Introduced new limits:
424 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
425 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
426 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
427
428 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
429 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
430 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
431
432 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
433 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
434
435 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
436 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
437 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
438 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
439 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
440 to make the distribution reliable.
441
442 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
443 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
444 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
445 saturated and produced wrong limits.
446
447 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
448 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
449 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
450 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
451 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
452
453 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
454 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
455 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
456 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
457 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
458 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
459 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
460 a good precision is needed.
461
462 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
463 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
464
465 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
466 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
467 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
468 changes.
469
470 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
471 as calculated by MPedestalY2
472
473 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
474 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
475 calculated from interleaved events
476
477 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
478 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
479 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
480 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
481 task
482
483 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
484
485 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
486 DC currents
487
488 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
489 Pedestal Rms
490
491 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
492
493 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
494 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
495 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
496 became pedestal rms dependant
497
498 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
499 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
500
501 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
502 May/April 05
503
504 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
505 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
506
507 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
508
509 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
510
511 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
512 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
513 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
514
515 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
516
517 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
518 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
519 sqrt(2) to large
520
521 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
522 and a background model determined in the first loop is
523 subtracted
524
525 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
526 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
527 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
528
529 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
530 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
531 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
532
533 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
534 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
535 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
536
537 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
538 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
539 it off add
540 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
541 to your ganymed.rc
542
543 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
544 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
545 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
546
547 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
548
549
550
551 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
552
553 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
554 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
555
556 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
557 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
558 before any other tree.
559
560 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
561 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
562 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
563 correctly.
564
565 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
566
567 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
568 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
569 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
570 the run stored in the runheader.
571
572 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
573 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
574 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
575
576 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
577 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
578 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
579
580 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
581 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
582 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
583 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
584
585 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
586 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
587
588 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
589 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
590 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
591 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
592 is fixed to 1
593
594 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
595 more accurate now
596
597 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
598 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
599 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
600
601 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
602
603 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
604 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
605 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
606
607 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
608 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
609
610 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
611 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
612
613 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
614 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
615
616 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
617 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
618 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
619 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
620
621 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
622 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
623 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
624 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
625 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
626 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
627 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
628 the calibration constants by
629 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
630 and
631 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
632 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
633 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
634 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
635 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
636
637 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
638 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
639 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
640 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
641
642 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
643 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
644
645 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
646 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
647 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
648 NameHistFS: MHDisp
649 For details about the requirements of these plots look
650 at the corresponding classes
651
652 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
653 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
654 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
655 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
656 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
657 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
658 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
659
660 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
661 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
662 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
663
664 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
665 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
666 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
667 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
668 normalization is normally wrong.
669
670
671
672 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
673
674 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
675 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
676
677 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
678 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
679
680 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
681 because ProcessFile is missleading
682
683 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
684
685 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
686 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
687 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
688
689 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
690 versions newer than V200404070
691
692 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
693 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
694 (MCameraCentralPixel)
695
696 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
697 (MHVsSize)
698
699 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
700
701 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
702 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
703 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
704 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
705 can be canged
706
707 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
708 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
709 using showlog.
710
711 - showplot: improved
712 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
713 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
714 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
715 the printing command from the command line you can use all
716 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
717 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
718 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
719 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
720
721 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
722 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
723 intensity has been updated in some cases)
724
725 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
726 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
727 been taken with Pin Diode.
728
729 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
730 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
731
732 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
733 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
734
735 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
736 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
737 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
738 of the cosmisc
739
740 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
741 from 2.5 to 4.5
742
743 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
744 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
745 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
746 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
747
748 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
749 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
750 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
751 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
752 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
753 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
754 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
755 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
756 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
757 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
758 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
759 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
760 they are a lot slower)
761 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
762 random memory access it might by completely random!
763
764 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
765 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
766 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
767
768 - callisto:
769 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
770 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
771 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
772 Default: -9.0 +4.5
773 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
774
775 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
776 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
777
778 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
779 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
780 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
781 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
782 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
783 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
784 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
785 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
786
787 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
788 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
789
790 - callisto: for the common extractors
791 + MExtractFixedWindow
792 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
793 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
794 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
795 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
796 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
797
798 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
799 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
800 hilocalib_df6.root
801
802 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
803 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
804 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
805
806 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
807 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
808 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
809 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
810 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
811 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
812 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
813
814 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
815 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
816 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
817 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
818 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
819 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
820
821 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
822
823 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
824 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
825
826 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
827 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
828 changed only minimally
829
830 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
831 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
832 MJSpectrum (sponde)
833
834 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
835 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
836 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
837 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
838
839 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
840 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
841
842
843
844 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
845
846 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
847 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
848 by 0.2 slices)
849
850 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
851 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
852
853 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
854 also done with a intercalibration input file
855
856 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
857
858 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
859
860 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
861
862 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
863
864 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
865
866 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
867
868 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
869
870 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
871 which is more than 5 times the variance
872
873 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
874
875 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
876 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
877
878 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
879 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
880
881 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
882 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
883
884 - update the reference lines for the december data
885
886 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
887 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
888 pulse position changes much.
889
890 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
891 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
892 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
893
894 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
895 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
896 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
897 runs a lot.
898
899 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
900 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
901
902 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
903 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
904 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
905 than with old versions (wrong units))
906
907 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
908 formats are still unsupported by root)
909
910 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
911 for automatic processing
912
913
914
915 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
916
917 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
918 decided by the Collaboration Board
919
920 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
921
922 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
923
924 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
925 and applied in callisto.
926
927 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
928
929 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
930
931 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
932 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
933
934 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
935 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
936
937 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
938 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
939 energy (Size) events.
940
941 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
942
943 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
944 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
945
946 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
947 (MHexagonalFT)
948
949 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
950 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
951
952 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
953 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
954 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
955
956 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
957
958 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
959
960 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
961 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
962
963 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
964
965 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
966 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
967 the slices by statistics
968 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
969 signal extractor without randomization
970 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
971 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
972 randomly fixed)
973 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
974 long as nobody really needs it:
975 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
976 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
977
978 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
979
980 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
981 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
982 roughly 0.5%
983
984 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
985 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
986 batch mode possible:
987 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
988
989 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
990 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
991
992 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
993 camera files.
994
995 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
996
997 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
998 accurate now
999
1000 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
1001 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
1002 * the new implementation is faster and
1003 * needs less storage space
1004
1005 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
1006 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
1007
1008 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
1009 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
1010
1011 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
1012
1013 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
1014
1015
1016
1017 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
1018
1019 - New combined signal and time extractor
1020 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1021
1022 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
1023 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
1024
1025 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
1026
1027 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
1028 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
1029 more): showlog
1030
1031 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
1032 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
1033
1034 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
1035 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
1036 source
1037
1038 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
1039 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
1040
1041 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
1042
1043 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
1044 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
1045
1046 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
1047 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1048
1049 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
1050 times the area ratio as cleaning level
1051 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1052
1053 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
1054 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
1055
1056 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
1057 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
1058
1059 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
1060 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
1061
1062 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
1063 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
1064 by a resource file: callisto.rc
1065
1066 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
1067 version 4)
1068
1069 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
1070 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
1071
1072 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
1073 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
1074 a resource file: star.rc
1075
1076 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
1077 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
1078
1079 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
1080 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
1081
1082 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
1083 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
1084 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
1085
1086 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
1087 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
1088 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
1089 MHTimeDiffTheta.
1090
1091 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
1092 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
1093 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
1094
1095 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
1096 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
1097 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
1098
1099
1100
1101 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
1102
1103 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
1104 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
1105
1106 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
1107
1108 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
1109
1110 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
1111
1112 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
1113
1114 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
1115 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
1116 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
1117
1118 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
1119
1120 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
1121 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
1122 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
1123
1124 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
1125 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
1126
1127 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
1128
1129 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
1130
1131
1132
1133 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
1134
1135 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
1136 MExtractTimeFastSpline
1137
1138 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
1139 ("pow(a, b)")
1140
1141 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
1142 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
1143
1144 - added support in MF for expressiond like
1145 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
1146
1147 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
1148 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
1149 is implemented through the new virtual function
1150 MParContainer::SetVariables
1151
1152 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
1153 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
1154
1155 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
1156 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
1157
1158 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
1159 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
1160
1161 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
1162 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
1163 and will replace them.
1164
1165 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
1166
1167 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
1168 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
1169 slices in the maximum window
1170
1171 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
1172 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
1173 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
1174 studies.
1175
1176 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
1177 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
1178 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
1179 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
1180
1181 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
1182 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
1183
1184 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
1185 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
1186 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
1187 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
1188 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
1189 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
1190
1191 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
1192 macro pedphotcalc.C
1193
1194 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
1195
1196 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
1197
1198 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
1199 minimizations
1200
1201 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
1202 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
1203
1204 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
1205
1206 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
1207 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
1208 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
1209
1210 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
1211 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
1212
1213 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
1214 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
1215
1216 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
1217
1218 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
1219
1220 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
1221
1222 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
1223
1224 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
1225
1226 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
1227 + MJPedestals
1228 + MJCalibration
1229 + MJExtractSignal
1230 Note: All of them are preliminary!
1231
1232 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
1233
1234 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
1235 the evolution of a sector vs time
1236
1237
1238
1239 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
1240
1241 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
1242 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
1243 camera version 0.7.
1244
1245 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
1246 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
1247
1248 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
1249
1250 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
1251 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
1252 be done soon.
1253
1254 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
1255 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
1256
1257 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
1258 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
1259 of time (readrep.C)
1260
1261 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
1262 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
1263 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
1264
1265 - Changed the name of the event trees:
1266 + Events --> Events
1267 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
1268 + CalEvents --> Calibration
1269
1270 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
1271
1272 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
1273
1274 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
1275 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
1276
1277 - added classes to calculate event rate
1278 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
1279
1280 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
1281
1282 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
1283
1284 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
1285 the new 'Synchonizer'
1286
1287
1288
1289 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
1290
1291 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
1292 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
1293 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
1294
1295 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
1296 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
1297 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
1298
1299 - added a new executable star which implements the
1300 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
1301 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
1302
1303 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
1304 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
1305 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
1306
1307 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
1308 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
1309
1310 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
1311
1312
1313
1314 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
1315
1316 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
1317 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
1318 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
1319 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
1320
1321 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
1322 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
1323
1324 - added pedestal calculation
1325
1326 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
1327 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
1328
1329 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
1330
1331 - added basic routines to apply padding
1332
1333 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
1334 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
1335
1336 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
1337 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
1338
1339 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
1340 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
1341
1342 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
1343 at all)
1344
1345 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
1346 ignore files
1347
1348 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
1349 to simulate the PMT camera
1350
1351 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
1352 programs in the MC chain.
1353
1354 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
1355 parameter in an eventloop.
1356
1357 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
1358 location (Long, Lat, etc)
1359
1360 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
1361
1362 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
1363 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
1364
1365 - added a new status display which can show the present status
1366 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
1367 an example can be found at status.C)
1368
1369 - reorganized directories:
1370 classes describing the image --> mimage
1371 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
1372 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
1373
1374 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
1375
1376 - colors in logging output to screen
1377
1378 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
1379 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
1380 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
1381 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
1382 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
1383
1384 - reading of reflector files
1385
1386 - display data from reflector files in the camera
1387
1388 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
1389
1390 - logarithmic scale in camera
1391
1392 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
1393
1394
1395
1396 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
1397
1398 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
1399
1400 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
1401 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
1402 missing a single NN)
1403
1404 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
1405 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
1406 have any neighbour)
1407
1408 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
1409 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
1410 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
1411 please ask Abelardo)
1412
1413 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
1414 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
1415
1416 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
1417
1418 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
1419 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
1420 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
1421 changed.
1422
1423 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
1424 (MHMatrix)
1425
1426 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
1427 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
1428
1429 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
1430 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
1431
1432 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
1433 event display gui.
1434
1435 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
1436
1437 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
1438
1439 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
1440
1441 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
1442 to MHillas
1443
1444 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
1445
1446 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
1447
1448 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
1449
1450 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
1451
1452 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
1453 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
1454 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
1455
1456 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
1457
1458 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
1459 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
1460
1461 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
1462 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
1463 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
1464 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
1465 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
1466
1467 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
1468 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
1469
1470 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
1471 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
1472
1473 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
1474 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
1475
1476 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
1477
1478 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
1479
1480 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
1481 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
1482
1483 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
1484 (thanks to Raquel)
1485
1486 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
1487 estfit.C) using a parametrization
1488
1489 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
1490 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
1491 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
1492
1493
1494
1495 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
1496
1497 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
1498 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
1499 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
1500 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
1501
1502 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
1503 for the collection area calculation
1504
1505 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
1506 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
1507
1508 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
1509 of one container
1510
1511 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
1512 ascii file
1513
1514 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
1515 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
1516 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
1517 hillas parameters)
1518
1519 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
1520 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
1521 see MHillas and MHillasExt
1522
1523 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
1524 see MHillasSrc
1525
1526 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
1527 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
1528 all histograms)
1529
1530 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
1531
1532 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
1533
1534 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
1535
1536 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
1537 an output stream instead of the whole container only
1538
1539 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
1540 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
1541
1542 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
1543 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
1544
1545 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
1546 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
1547
1548 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
1549
1550 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
1551 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
1552 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
1553
1554 - Added:
1555 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
1556 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
1557 they are needed in the flux calculation in
1558 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
1559 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
1560 of Theta and the true energy
1561
1562 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
1563 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
1564 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
1565 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
1566 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
1567 by unfolding
1568
1569 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
1570
1571
1572
1573 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
1574
1575 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
1576 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
1577 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
1578
1579 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
1580
1581 - Introduced verbosity levels
1582
1583 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
1584
1585 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
1586 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
1587
1588 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
1589 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
1590
1591 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
1592
1593 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
1594
1595 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
1596 of a parameter container for each event
1597
1598 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
1599
1600 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
1601
1602 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
1603 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
1604 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
1605
1606 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
1607 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
1608 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
1609
1610
1611
1612 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
1613
1614 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
1615
1616 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
1617 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
1618
1619 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
1620 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
1621 states
1622
1623 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
1624 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
1625
1626 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
1627
1628 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
1629 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
1630
1631 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
1632 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
1633
1634 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
1635 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
1636 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
1637
1638 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
1639 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
1640
1641 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
1642 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
1643
1644 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
1645 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
1646
1647
1648
1649 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
1650
1651 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
1652
1653 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
1654
1655 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
1656
1657 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
1658
1659 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
1660
1661 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
1662
1663 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
1664
1665 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
1666
1667 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
1668 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
1669
1670
1671
1672 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
1673
1674 - Many demo macros added
1675
1676 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
1677
1678 - Hillas Calculation added
1679
1680 - Standard image cleaning available
1681
1682 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
1683 (Remark: of the same structure)
1684
1685 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
1686 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
1687 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
1688
1689
1690
1691 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
1692
1693 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
1694 gui with the command mars.
1695
1696
1697
1698 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
1699
1700 - First official release 0.1
1701
1702 - Changes:
1703
1704 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
1705 while-loop
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