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