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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 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
57
58 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
59
60 - colors in logging output to screen
61
62
63
64 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
65
66 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
67
68 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
69 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
70 missing a single NN)
71
72 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
73 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
74 have any neighbour)
75
76 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
77 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
78 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
79 please ask Abelardo)
80
81 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
82 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
83
84 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
85
86 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
87 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
88 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
89 changed.
90
91 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
92 (MHMatrix)
93
94 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
95 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
96
97 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
98 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
99
100 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
101 event display gui.
102
103 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
104
105 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
106
107 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
108
109 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
110 to MHillas
111
112 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
113
114 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
115
116 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
117
118 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
119
120 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
121 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
122 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
123
124 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
125
126 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
127 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
128
129 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
130 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
131 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
132 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
133 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
134
135 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
136 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
137
138 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
139 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
140
141 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
142 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
143
144 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
145
146 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
147
148 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
149 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
150
151 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
152 (thanks to Raquel)
153
154 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
155 estfit.C) using a parametrization
156
157 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
158 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
159 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
160
161
162
163 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
164
165 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
166 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
167 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
168 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
169
170 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
171 for the collection area calculation
172
173 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
174 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
175
176 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
177 of one container
178
179 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
180 ascii file
181
182 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
183 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
184 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
185 hillas parameters)
186
187 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
188 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
189 see MHillas and MHillasExt
190
191 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
192 see MHillasSrc
193
194 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
195 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
196 all histograms)
197
198 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
199
200 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
201
202 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
203
204 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
205 an output stream instead of the whole container only
206
207 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
208 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
209
210 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
211 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
212
213 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
214 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
215
216 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
217
218 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
219 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
220 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
221
222 - Added:
223 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
224 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
225 they are needed in the flux calculation in
226 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
227 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
228 of Theta and the true energy
229
230 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
231 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
232 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
233 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
234 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
235 by unfolding
236
237 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
238
239
240
241 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
242
243 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
244 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
245 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
246
247 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
248
249 - Introduced verbosity levels
250
251 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
252
253 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
254 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
255
256 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
257 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
258
259 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
260
261 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
262
263 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
264 of a parameter container for each event
265
266 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
267
268 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
269
270 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
271 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
272 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
273
274 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
275 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
276 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
277
278
279
280 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
281
282 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
283
284 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
285 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
286
287 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
288 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
289 states
290
291 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
292 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
293
294 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
295
296 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
297 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
298
299 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
300 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
301
302 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
303 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
304 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
305
306 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
307 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
308
309 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
310 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
311
312 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
313 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
314
315
316
317 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
318
319 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
320
321 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
322
323 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
324
325 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
326
327 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
328
329 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
330
331 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
332
333 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
334
335 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
336 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
337
338
339
340 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
341
342 - Many demo macros added
343
344 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
345
346 - Hillas Calculation added
347
348 - Standard image cleaning available
349
350 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
351 (Remark: of the same structure)
352
353 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
354 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
355 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
356
357
358
359 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
360
361 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
362 gui with the command mars.
363
364
365
366 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
367
368 - First official release 0.1
369
370 - Changes:
371
372 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
373 while-loop
374
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