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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
5 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
6 camera version 0.7.
7
8 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
9 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
10
11
12
13 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
14
15 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
16 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
17 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
18
19 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
20 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
21 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
22
23 - added a new executable star which implements the
24 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
25 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
26
27 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
28 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
29 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
30
31 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
32 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
33
34 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
35
36
37
38 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
39
40 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
41 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
42 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
43 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
44
45 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
46 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
47
48 - added pedestal calculation
49
50 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
51 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
52
53 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
54
55 - added basic routines to apply padding
56
57 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
58 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
59
60 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
61 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
62
63 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
64 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
65
66 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
67 at all)
68
69 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
70 ignore files
71
72 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
73 to simulate the PMT camera
74
75 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
76 programs in the MC chain.
77
78 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
79 parameter in an eventloop.
80
81 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
82 location (Long, Lat, etc)
83
84 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
85
86 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
87 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
88
89 - added a new status display which can show the present status
90 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
91 an example can be found at status.C)
92
93 - reorganized directories:
94 classes describing the image --> mimage
95 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
96 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
97
98 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
99
100 - colors in logging output to screen
101
102 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
103 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
104 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
105 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
106 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
107
108 - reading of reflector files
109
110 - display data from reflector files in the camera
111
112 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
113
114 - logarithmic scale in camera
115
116 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
117
118
119
120 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
121
122 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
123
124 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
125 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
126 missing a single NN)
127
128 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
129 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
130 have any neighbour)
131
132 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
133 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
134 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
135 please ask Abelardo)
136
137 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
138 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
139
140 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
141
142 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
143 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
144 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
145 changed.
146
147 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
148 (MHMatrix)
149
150 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
151 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
152
153 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
154 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
155
156 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
157 event display gui.
158
159 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
160
161 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
162
163 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
164
165 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
166 to MHillas
167
168 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
169
170 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
171
172 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
173
174 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
175
176 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
177 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
178 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
179
180 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
181
182 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
183 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
184
185 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
186 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
187 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
188 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
189 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
190
191 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
192 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
193
194 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
195 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
196
197 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
198 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
199
200 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
201
202 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
203
204 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
205 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
206
207 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
208 (thanks to Raquel)
209
210 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
211 estfit.C) using a parametrization
212
213 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
214 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
215 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
216
217
218
219 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
220
221 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
222 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
223 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
224 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
225
226 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
227 for the collection area calculation
228
229 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
230 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
231
232 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
233 of one container
234
235 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
236 ascii file
237
238 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
239 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
240 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
241 hillas parameters)
242
243 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
244 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
245 see MHillas and MHillasExt
246
247 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
248 see MHillasSrc
249
250 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
251 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
252 all histograms)
253
254 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
255
256 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
257
258 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
259
260 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
261 an output stream instead of the whole container only
262
263 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
264 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
265
266 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
267 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
268
269 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
270 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
271
272 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
273
274 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
275 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
276 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
277
278 - Added:
279 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
280 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
281 they are needed in the flux calculation in
282 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
283 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
284 of Theta and the true energy
285
286 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
287 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
288 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
289 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
290 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
291 by unfolding
292
293 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
294
295
296
297 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
298
299 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
300 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
301 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
302
303 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
304
305 - Introduced verbosity levels
306
307 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
308
309 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
310 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
311
312 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
313 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
314
315 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
316
317 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
318
319 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
320 of a parameter container for each event
321
322 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
323
324 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
325
326 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
327 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
328 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
329
330 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
331 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
332 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
333
334
335
336 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
337
338 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
339
340 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
341 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
342
343 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
344 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
345 states
346
347 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
348 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
349
350 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
351
352 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
353 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
354
355 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
356 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
357
358 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
359 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
360 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
361
362 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
363 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
364
365 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
366 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
367
368 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
369 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
370
371
372
373 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
374
375 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
376
377 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
378
379 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
380
381 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
382
383 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
384
385 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
386
387 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
388
389 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
390
391 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
392 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
393
394
395
396 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
397
398 - Many demo macros added
399
400 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
401
402 - Hillas Calculation added
403
404 - Standard image cleaning available
405
406 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
407 (Remark: of the same structure)
408
409 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
410 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
411 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
412
413
414
415 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
416
417 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
418 gui with the command mars.
419
420
421
422 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
423
424 - First official release 0.1
425
426 - Changes:
427
428 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
429 while-loop
430
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