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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
5 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
6
7 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
8 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
9
10 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
11 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
12
13 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
14 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
15 and will replace them.
16
17 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
18
19 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
20 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
21 slices in the maximum window
22
23 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
24 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
25 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
26 studies.
27
28 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
29 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
30 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
31 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
32
33 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
34 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
35
36 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
37 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
38 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
39 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
40 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
41 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
42
43 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
44 macro pedphotcalc.C
45
46 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
47
48 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
49
50 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
51 minimizations
52
53 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
54 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
55
56 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
57
58 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
59 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
60 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
61
62 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
63 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
64
65 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
66 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
67
68 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
69
70 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
71
72 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
73
74 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
75
76 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
77
78 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
79 + MJPedestals
80 + MJCalibration
81 + MJExtractSignal
82 Note: All of them are preliminary!
83
84 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
85
86 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
87 the evolution of a sector vs time
88
89
90
91 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
92
93 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
94 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
95 camera version 0.7.
96
97 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
98 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
99
100 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
101
102 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
103 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
104 be done soon.
105
106 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
107 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
108
109 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
110 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
111 of time (readrep.C)
112
113 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
114 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
115 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
116
117 - Changed the name of the event trees:
118 + Events --> Events
119 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
120 + CalEvents --> Calibration
121
122 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
123
124 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
125
126 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
127 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
128
129 - added classes to calculate event rate
130 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
131
132 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
133
134 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
135
136 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
137 the new 'Synchonizer'
138
139
140
141 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
142
143 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
144 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
145 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
146
147 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
148 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
149 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
150
151 - added a new executable star which implements the
152 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
153 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
154
155 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
156 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
157 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
158
159 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
160 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
161
162 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
163
164
165
166 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
167
168 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
169 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
170 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
171 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
172
173 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
174 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
175
176 - added pedestal calculation
177
178 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
179 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
180
181 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
182
183 - added basic routines to apply padding
184
185 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
186 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
187
188 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
189 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
190
191 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
192 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
193
194 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
195 at all)
196
197 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
198 ignore files
199
200 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
201 to simulate the PMT camera
202
203 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
204 programs in the MC chain.
205
206 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
207 parameter in an eventloop.
208
209 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
210 location (Long, Lat, etc)
211
212 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
213
214 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
215 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
216
217 - added a new status display which can show the present status
218 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
219 an example can be found at status.C)
220
221 - reorganized directories:
222 classes describing the image --> mimage
223 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
224 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
225
226 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
227
228 - colors in logging output to screen
229
230 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
231 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
232 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
233 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
234 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
235
236 - reading of reflector files
237
238 - display data from reflector files in the camera
239
240 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
241
242 - logarithmic scale in camera
243
244 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
245
246
247
248 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
249
250 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
251
252 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
253 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
254 missing a single NN)
255
256 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
257 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
258 have any neighbour)
259
260 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
261 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
262 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
263 please ask Abelardo)
264
265 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
266 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
267
268 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
269
270 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
271 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
272 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
273 changed.
274
275 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
276 (MHMatrix)
277
278 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
279 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
280
281 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
282 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
283
284 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
285 event display gui.
286
287 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
288
289 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
290
291 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
292
293 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
294 to MHillas
295
296 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
297
298 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
299
300 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
301
302 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
303
304 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
305 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
306 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
307
308 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
309
310 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
311 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
312
313 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
314 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
315 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
316 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
317 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
318
319 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
320 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
321
322 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
323 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
324
325 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
326 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
327
328 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
329
330 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
331
332 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
333 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
334
335 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
336 (thanks to Raquel)
337
338 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
339 estfit.C) using a parametrization
340
341 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
342 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
343 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
344
345
346
347 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
348
349 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
350 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
351 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
352 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
353
354 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
355 for the collection area calculation
356
357 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
358 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
359
360 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
361 of one container
362
363 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
364 ascii file
365
366 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
367 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
368 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
369 hillas parameters)
370
371 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
372 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
373 see MHillas and MHillasExt
374
375 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
376 see MHillasSrc
377
378 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
379 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
380 all histograms)
381
382 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
383
384 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
385
386 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
387
388 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
389 an output stream instead of the whole container only
390
391 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
392 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
393
394 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
395 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
396
397 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
398 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
399
400 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
401
402 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
403 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
404 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
405
406 - Added:
407 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
408 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
409 they are needed in the flux calculation in
410 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
411 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
412 of Theta and the true energy
413
414 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
415 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
416 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
417 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
418 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
419 by unfolding
420
421 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
422
423
424
425 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
426
427 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
428 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
429 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
430
431 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
432
433 - Introduced verbosity levels
434
435 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
436
437 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
438 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
439
440 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
441 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
442
443 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
444
445 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
446
447 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
448 of a parameter container for each event
449
450 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
451
452 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
453
454 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
455 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
456 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
457
458 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
459 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
460 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
461
462
463
464 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
465
466 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
467
468 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
469 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
470
471 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
472 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
473 states
474
475 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
476 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
477
478 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
479
480 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
481 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
482
483 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
484 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
485
486 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
487 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
488 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
489
490 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
491 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
492
493 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
494 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
495
496 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
497 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
498
499
500
501 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
502
503 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
504
505 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
506
507 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
508
509 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
510
511 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
512
513 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
514
515 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
516
517 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
518
519 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
520 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
521
522
523
524 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
525
526 - Many demo macros added
527
528 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
529
530 - Hillas Calculation added
531
532 - Standard image cleaning available
533
534 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
535 (Remark: of the same structure)
536
537 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
538 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
539 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
540
541
542
543 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
544
545 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
546 gui with the command mars.
547
548
549
550 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
551
552 - First official release 0.1
553
554 - Changes:
555
556 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
557 while-loop
558
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