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