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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 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
12 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
13 be done soon.
14
15
16
17 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
18
19 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
20 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
21 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
22
23 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
24 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
25 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
26
27 - added a new executable star which implements the
28 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
29 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
30
31 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
32 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
33 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
34
35 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
36 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
37
38 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
39
40
41
42 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
43
44 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
45 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
46 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
47 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
48
49 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
50 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
51
52 - added pedestal calculation
53
54 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
55 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
56
57 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
58
59 - added basic routines to apply padding
60
61 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
62 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
63
64 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
65 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
66
67 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
68 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
69
70 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
71 at all)
72
73 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
74 ignore files
75
76 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
77 to simulate the PMT camera
78
79 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
80 programs in the MC chain.
81
82 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
83 parameter in an eventloop.
84
85 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
86 location (Long, Lat, etc)
87
88 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
89
90 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
91 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
92
93 - added a new status display which can show the present status
94 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
95 an example can be found at status.C)
96
97 - reorganized directories:
98 classes describing the image --> mimage
99 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
100 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
101
102 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
103
104 - colors in logging output to screen
105
106 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
107 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
108 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
109 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
110 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
111
112 - reading of reflector files
113
114 - display data from reflector files in the camera
115
116 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
117
118 - logarithmic scale in camera
119
120 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
121
122
123
124 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
125
126 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
127
128 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
129 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
130 missing a single NN)
131
132 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
133 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
134 have any neighbour)
135
136 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
137 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
138 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
139 please ask Abelardo)
140
141 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
142 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
143
144 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
145
146 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
147 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
148 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
149 changed.
150
151 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
152 (MHMatrix)
153
154 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
155 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
156
157 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
158 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
159
160 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
161 event display gui.
162
163 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
164
165 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
166
167 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
168
169 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
170 to MHillas
171
172 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
173
174 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
175
176 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
177
178 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
179
180 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
181 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
182 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
183
184 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
185
186 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
187 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
188
189 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
190 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
191 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
192 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
193 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
194
195 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
196 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
197
198 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
199 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
200
201 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
202 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
203
204 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
205
206 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
207
208 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
209 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
210
211 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
212 (thanks to Raquel)
213
214 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
215 estfit.C) using a parametrization
216
217 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
218 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
219 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
220
221
222
223 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
224
225 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
226 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
227 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
228 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
229
230 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
231 for the collection area calculation
232
233 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
234 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
235
236 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
237 of one container
238
239 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
240 ascii file
241
242 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
243 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
244 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
245 hillas parameters)
246
247 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
248 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
249 see MHillas and MHillasExt
250
251 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
252 see MHillasSrc
253
254 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
255 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
256 all histograms)
257
258 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
259
260 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
261
262 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
263
264 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
265 an output stream instead of the whole container only
266
267 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
268 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
269
270 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
271 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
272
273 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
274 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
275
276 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
277
278 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
279 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
280 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
281
282 - Added:
283 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
284 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
285 they are needed in the flux calculation in
286 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
287 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
288 of Theta and the true energy
289
290 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
291 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
292 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
293 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
294 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
295 by unfolding
296
297 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
298
299
300
301 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
302
303 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
304 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
305 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
306
307 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
308
309 - Introduced verbosity levels
310
311 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
312
313 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
314 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
315
316 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
317 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
318
319 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
320
321 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
322
323 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
324 of a parameter container for each event
325
326 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
327
328 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
329
330 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
331 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
332 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
333
334 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
335 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
336 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
337
338
339
340 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
341
342 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
343
344 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
345 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
346
347 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
348 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
349 states
350
351 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
352 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
353
354 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
355
356 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
357 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
358
359 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
360 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
361
362 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
363 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
364 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
365
366 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
367 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
368
369 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
370 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
371
372 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
373 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
374
375
376
377 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
378
379 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
380
381 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
382
383 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
384
385 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
386
387 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
388
389 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
390
391 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
392
393 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
394
395 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
396 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
397
398
399
400 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
401
402 - Many demo macros added
403
404 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
405
406 - Hillas Calculation added
407
408 - Standard image cleaning available
409
410 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
411 (Remark: of the same structure)
412
413 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
414 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
415 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
416
417
418
419 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
420
421 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
422 gui with the command mars.
423
424
425
426 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
427
428 - First official release 0.1
429
430 - Changes:
431
432 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
433 while-loop
434
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