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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
5
6 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
7
8 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
9
10 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
11
12
13
14 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
15
16 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
17 MExtractTimeFastSpline
18
19 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
20 ("pow(a, b)")
21
22 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
23 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
24
25 - added support in MF for expressiond like
26 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
27
28 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
29 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
30 is implemented through the new virtual function
31 MParContainer::SetVariables
32
33 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
34 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
35
36 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
37 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
38
39 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
40 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
41
42 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
43 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
44 and will replace them.
45
46 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
47
48 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
49 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
50 slices in the maximum window
51
52 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
53 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
54 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
55 studies.
56
57 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
58 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
59 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
60 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
61
62 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
63 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
64
65 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
66 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
67 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
68 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
69 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
70 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
71
72 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
73 macro pedphotcalc.C
74
75 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
76
77 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
78
79 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
80 minimizations
81
82 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
83 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
84
85 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
86
87 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
88 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
89 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
90
91 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
92 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
93
94 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
95 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
96
97 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
98
99 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
100
101 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
102
103 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
104
105 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
106
107 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
108 + MJPedestals
109 + MJCalibration
110 + MJExtractSignal
111 Note: All of them are preliminary!
112
113 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
114
115 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
116 the evolution of a sector vs time
117
118
119
120 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
121
122 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
123 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
124 camera version 0.7.
125
126 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
127 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
128
129 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
130
131 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
132 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
133 be done soon.
134
135 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
136 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
137
138 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
139 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
140 of time (readrep.C)
141
142 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
143 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
144 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
145
146 - Changed the name of the event trees:
147 + Events --> Events
148 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
149 + CalEvents --> Calibration
150
151 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
152
153 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
154
155 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
156 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
157
158 - added classes to calculate event rate
159 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
160
161 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
162
163 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
164
165 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
166 the new 'Synchonizer'
167
168
169
170 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
171
172 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
173 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
174 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
175
176 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
177 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
178 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
179
180 - added a new executable star which implements the
181 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
182 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
183
184 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
185 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
186 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
187
188 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
189 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
190
191 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
192
193
194
195 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
196
197 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
198 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
199 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
200 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
201
202 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
203 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
204
205 - added pedestal calculation
206
207 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
208 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
209
210 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
211
212 - added basic routines to apply padding
213
214 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
215 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
216
217 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
218 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
219
220 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
221 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
222
223 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
224 at all)
225
226 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
227 ignore files
228
229 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
230 to simulate the PMT camera
231
232 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
233 programs in the MC chain.
234
235 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
236 parameter in an eventloop.
237
238 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
239 location (Long, Lat, etc)
240
241 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
242
243 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
244 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
245
246 - added a new status display which can show the present status
247 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
248 an example can be found at status.C)
249
250 - reorganized directories:
251 classes describing the image --> mimage
252 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
253 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
254
255 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
256
257 - colors in logging output to screen
258
259 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
260 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
261 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
262 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
263 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
264
265 - reading of reflector files
266
267 - display data from reflector files in the camera
268
269 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
270
271 - logarithmic scale in camera
272
273 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
274
275
276
277 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
278
279 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
280
281 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
282 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
283 missing a single NN)
284
285 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
286 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
287 have any neighbour)
288
289 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
290 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
291 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
292 please ask Abelardo)
293
294 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
295 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
296
297 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
298
299 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
300 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
301 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
302 changed.
303
304 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
305 (MHMatrix)
306
307 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
308 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
309
310 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
311 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
312
313 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
314 event display gui.
315
316 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
317
318 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
319
320 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
321
322 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
323 to MHillas
324
325 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
326
327 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
328
329 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
330
331 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
332
333 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
334 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
335 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
336
337 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
338
339 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
340 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
341
342 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
343 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
344 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
345 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
346 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
347
348 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
349 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
350
351 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
352 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
353
354 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
355 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
356
357 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
358
359 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
360
361 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
362 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
363
364 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
365 (thanks to Raquel)
366
367 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
368 estfit.C) using a parametrization
369
370 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
371 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
372 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
373
374
375
376 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
377
378 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
379 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
380 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
381 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
382
383 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
384 for the collection area calculation
385
386 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
387 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
388
389 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
390 of one container
391
392 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
393 ascii file
394
395 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
396 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
397 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
398 hillas parameters)
399
400 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
401 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
402 see MHillas and MHillasExt
403
404 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
405 see MHillasSrc
406
407 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
408 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
409 all histograms)
410
411 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
412
413 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
414
415 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
416
417 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
418 an output stream instead of the whole container only
419
420 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
421 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
422
423 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
424 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
425
426 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
427 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
428
429 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
430
431 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
432 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
433 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
434
435 - Added:
436 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
437 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
438 they are needed in the flux calculation in
439 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
440 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
441 of Theta and the true energy
442
443 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
444 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
445 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
446 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
447 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
448 by unfolding
449
450 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
451
452
453
454 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
455
456 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
457 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
458 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
459
460 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
461
462 - Introduced verbosity levels
463
464 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
465
466 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
467 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
468
469 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
470 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
471
472 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
473
474 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
475
476 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
477 of a parameter container for each event
478
479 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
480
481 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
482
483 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
484 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
485 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
486
487 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
488 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
489 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
490
491
492
493 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
494
495 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
496
497 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
498 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
499
500 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
501 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
502 states
503
504 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
505 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
506
507 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
508
509 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
510 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
511
512 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
513 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
514
515 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
516 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
517 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
518
519 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
520 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
521
522 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
523 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
524
525 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
526 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
527
528
529
530 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
531
532 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
533
534 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
535
536 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
537
538 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
539
540 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
541
542 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
543
544 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
545
546 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
547
548 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
549 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
550
551
552
553 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
554
555 - Many demo macros added
556
557 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
558
559 - Hillas Calculation added
560
561 - Standard image cleaning available
562
563 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
564 (Remark: of the same structure)
565
566 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
567 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
568 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
569
570
571
572 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
573
574 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
575 gui with the command mars.
576
577
578
579 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
580
581 - First official release 0.1
582
583 - Changes:
584
585 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
586 while-loop
587
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