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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 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
12
13 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
14 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
15 be done soon.
16
17 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
18 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
19
20 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
21 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
22 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
23
24 - Changed the name of the event trees:
25 + Events --> Events
26 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
27 + CalEvents --> Calibration
28
29 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
30
31 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
32
33 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
34 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
35
36 - added classes to calculate event rate
37 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
38
39
40
41 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
42
43 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
44 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
45 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
46
47 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
48 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
49 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
50
51 - added a new executable star which implements the
52 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
53 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
54
55 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
56 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
57 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
58
59 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
60 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
61
62 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
63
64
65
66 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
67
68 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
69 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
70 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
71 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
72
73 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
74 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
75
76 - added pedestal calculation
77
78 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
79 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
80
81 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
82
83 - added basic routines to apply padding
84
85 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
86 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
87
88 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
89 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
90
91 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
92 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
93
94 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
95 at all)
96
97 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
98 ignore files
99
100 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
101 to simulate the PMT camera
102
103 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
104 programs in the MC chain.
105
106 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
107 parameter in an eventloop.
108
109 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
110 location (Long, Lat, etc)
111
112 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
113
114 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
115 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
116
117 - added a new status display which can show the present status
118 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
119 an example can be found at status.C)
120
121 - reorganized directories:
122 classes describing the image --> mimage
123 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
124 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
125
126 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
127
128 - colors in logging output to screen
129
130 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
131 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
132 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
133 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
134 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
135
136 - reading of reflector files
137
138 - display data from reflector files in the camera
139
140 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
141
142 - logarithmic scale in camera
143
144 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
145
146
147
148 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
149
150 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
151
152 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
153 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
154 missing a single NN)
155
156 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
157 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
158 have any neighbour)
159
160 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
161 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
162 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
163 please ask Abelardo)
164
165 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
166 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
167
168 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
169
170 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
171 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
172 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
173 changed.
174
175 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
176 (MHMatrix)
177
178 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
179 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
180
181 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
182 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
183
184 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
185 event display gui.
186
187 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
188
189 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
190
191 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
192
193 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
194 to MHillas
195
196 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
197
198 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
199
200 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
201
202 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
203
204 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
205 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
206 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
207
208 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
209
210 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
211 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
212
213 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
214 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
215 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
216 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
217 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
218
219 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
220 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
221
222 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
223 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
224
225 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
226 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
227
228 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
229
230 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
231
232 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
233 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
234
235 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
236 (thanks to Raquel)
237
238 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
239 estfit.C) using a parametrization
240
241 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
242 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
243 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
244
245
246
247 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
248
249 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
250 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
251 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
252 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
253
254 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
255 for the collection area calculation
256
257 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
258 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
259
260 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
261 of one container
262
263 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
264 ascii file
265
266 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
267 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
268 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
269 hillas parameters)
270
271 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
272 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
273 see MHillas and MHillasExt
274
275 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
276 see MHillasSrc
277
278 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
279 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
280 all histograms)
281
282 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
283
284 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
285
286 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
287
288 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
289 an output stream instead of the whole container only
290
291 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
292 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
293
294 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
295 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
296
297 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
298 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
299
300 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
301
302 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
303 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
304 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
305
306 - Added:
307 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
308 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
309 they are needed in the flux calculation in
310 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
311 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
312 of Theta and the true energy
313
314 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
315 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
316 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
317 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
318 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
319 by unfolding
320
321 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
322
323
324
325 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
326
327 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
328 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
329 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
330
331 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
332
333 - Introduced verbosity levels
334
335 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
336
337 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
338 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
339
340 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
341 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
342
343 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
344
345 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
346
347 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
348 of a parameter container for each event
349
350 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
351
352 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
353
354 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
355 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
356 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
357
358 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
359 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
360 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
361
362
363
364 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
365
366 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
367
368 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
369 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
370
371 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
372 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
373 states
374
375 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
376 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
377
378 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
379
380 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
381 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
382
383 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
384 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
385
386 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
387 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
388 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
389
390 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
391 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
392
393 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
394 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
395
396 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
397 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
398
399
400
401 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
402
403 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
404
405 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
406
407 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
408
409 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
410
411 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
412
413 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
414
415 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
416
417 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
418
419 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
420 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
421
422
423
424 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
425
426 - Many demo macros added
427
428 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
429
430 - Hillas Calculation added
431
432 - Standard image cleaning available
433
434 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
435 (Remark: of the same structure)
436
437 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
438 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
439 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
440
441
442
443 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
444
445 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
446 gui with the command mars.
447
448
449
450 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
451
452 - First official release 0.1
453
454 - Changes:
455
456 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
457 while-loop
458
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