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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 tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
21 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
22 of time (readrep.C)
23
24 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
25 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
26 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
27
28 - Changed the name of the event trees:
29 + Events --> Events
30 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
31 + CalEvents --> Calibration
32
33 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
34
35 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
36
37 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
38 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
39
40 - added classes to calculate event rate
41 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
42
43 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
44
45
46
47 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
48
49 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
50 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
51 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
52
53 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
54 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
55 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
56
57 - added a new executable star which implements the
58 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
59 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
60
61 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
62 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
63 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
64
65 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
66 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
67
68 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
69
70
71
72 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
73
74 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
75 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
76 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
77 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
78
79 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
80 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
81
82 - added pedestal calculation
83
84 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
85 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
86
87 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
88
89 - added basic routines to apply padding
90
91 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
92 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
93
94 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
95 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
96
97 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
98 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
99
100 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
101 at all)
102
103 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
104 ignore files
105
106 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
107 to simulate the PMT camera
108
109 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
110 programs in the MC chain.
111
112 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
113 parameter in an eventloop.
114
115 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
116 location (Long, Lat, etc)
117
118 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
119
120 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
121 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
122
123 - added a new status display which can show the present status
124 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
125 an example can be found at status.C)
126
127 - reorganized directories:
128 classes describing the image --> mimage
129 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
130 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
131
132 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
133
134 - colors in logging output to screen
135
136 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
137 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
138 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
139 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
140 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
141
142 - reading of reflector files
143
144 - display data from reflector files in the camera
145
146 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
147
148 - logarithmic scale in camera
149
150 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
151
152
153
154 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
155
156 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
157
158 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
159 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
160 missing a single NN)
161
162 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
163 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
164 have any neighbour)
165
166 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
167 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
168 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
169 please ask Abelardo)
170
171 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
172 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
173
174 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
175
176 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
177 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
178 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
179 changed.
180
181 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
182 (MHMatrix)
183
184 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
185 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
186
187 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
188 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
189
190 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
191 event display gui.
192
193 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
194
195 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
196
197 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
198
199 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
200 to MHillas
201
202 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
203
204 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
205
206 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
207
208 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
209
210 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
211 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
212 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
213
214 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
215
216 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
217 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
218
219 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
220 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
221 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
222 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
223 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
224
225 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
226 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
227
228 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
229 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
230
231 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
232 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
233
234 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
235
236 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
237
238 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
239 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
240
241 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
242 (thanks to Raquel)
243
244 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
245 estfit.C) using a parametrization
246
247 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
248 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
249 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
250
251
252
253 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
254
255 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
256 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
257 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
258 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
259
260 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
261 for the collection area calculation
262
263 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
264 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
265
266 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
267 of one container
268
269 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
270 ascii file
271
272 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
273 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
274 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
275 hillas parameters)
276
277 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
278 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
279 see MHillas and MHillasExt
280
281 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
282 see MHillasSrc
283
284 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
285 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
286 all histograms)
287
288 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
289
290 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
291
292 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
293
294 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
295 an output stream instead of the whole container only
296
297 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
298 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
299
300 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
301 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
302
303 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
304 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
305
306 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
307
308 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
309 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
310 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
311
312 - Added:
313 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
314 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
315 they are needed in the flux calculation in
316 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
317 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
318 of Theta and the true energy
319
320 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
321 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
322 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
323 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
324 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
325 by unfolding
326
327 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
328
329
330
331 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
332
333 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
334 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
335 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
336
337 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
338
339 - Introduced verbosity levels
340
341 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
342
343 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
344 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
345
346 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
347 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
348
349 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
350
351 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
352
353 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
354 of a parameter container for each event
355
356 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
357
358 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
359
360 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
361 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
362 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
363
364 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
365 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
366 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
367
368
369
370 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
371
372 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
373
374 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
375 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
376
377 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
378 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
379 states
380
381 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
382 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
383
384 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
385
386 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
387 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
388
389 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
390 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
391
392 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
393 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
394 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
395
396 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
397 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
398
399 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
400 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
401
402 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
403 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
404
405
406
407 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
408
409 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
410
411 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
412
413 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
414
415 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
416
417 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
418
419 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
420
421 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
422
423 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
424
425 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
426 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
427
428
429
430 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
431
432 - Many demo macros added
433
434 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
435
436 - Hillas Calculation added
437
438 - Standard image cleaning available
439
440 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
441 (Remark: of the same structure)
442
443 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
444 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
445 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
446
447
448
449 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
450
451 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
452 gui with the command mars.
453
454
455
456 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
457
458 - First official release 0.1
459
460 - Changes:
461
462 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
463 while-loop
464
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