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2
3== <cvs> ==
4
5 ;SUGGESTION
6
7 * This release doesn't contain a major changed which is expected to
8 change your result. Nevertheless there are small changes to
9 the calibration which can effect at least the first few hundred
10 events in any (mainly MUX and even more SUM) sequence a little bit.
11 So it is recommended although not necessary to reset your sequences
12 in the database before further processing.
13
14 ;general
15
16 * All command line options after -- are now interpreted as
17 arguments (usually everything which doesn't start with a minus)
18 rather than options (usually everything which starts with a
19 minus). This allows to use file names starting with a -
20
21 ;Database
22
23 * Added informations about the DC currents (fMinCurrents, fMedCurrents
24 and fMaxCurrents). The values are retrieved from the plots showing
25 the average DC currents of all pixels versus time.
26
27 ;automatic analyis
28
29 * Rewritten producing plots in the web.
30 New plots, namely the output of plotoptical.C (extinction curve from
31 KVA), plotstat.C (status of the automatic analysis (percentage of
32 processed, analysed data etc.)) and plotusage.C (statistics of the
33 condor usage in the data center) has been are available now next to the
34 plots of plotdb.C
35 Mean values from the plots (output of the macro) are provided in a
36 txt file now.
37 The creation of the plots for callisto, star and ganymed in the web is
38 now steered via database. Consequently the plots are faster and
39 reliable up-to-date.
40
41 ;merpp
42
43 * Fixed merpping of raw-files (the runheader tree got the name RunHeader
44 instead of RunHeaders)
45
46 * Now allows to merpp files newer than 2008/09/03.
47
48 ;callisto
49
50 * Extracting the pulse position for the pulse position check events
51 with sum trigger were denied. This decreased the statistics
52 extremely and therefor the resulting puse position was calculated
53 quite weak. Now sum events pass the calculation if and only if they
54 have also a level 1 trigger.
55
56 * the extraction of pedestal events and pulse position from the
57 first data events is now more automatic and makes sure that
58 a more precise number of events is extracted independent of
59 the ratio with which pedestal events or events with signals
60 are contained in the data.
61
62 ;ganymed
63
64 * If the source position is more than 1deg away from the camera
65 center an error is raised now.
66
67
68
69== Version 2.1.1 (2008/08/04) ==
70
71 ;Database
72
73 * Added the median number of photo electrons from the calibration
74 pulses to the db (fMedNumPheInner, fMedNumPheOuter) and the relative
75 error of their raw counts (fRelChargeRmsInner, fRelChargeRmsOuter)
76
77 * Added fTotOnTime, which is the on-time as given by the run-headers
78 (in contradiction to fAbsOnTime which comes from CC)
79
80 * Added new primaries for the new data structure (Magic II): for the
81 tables dealing with sequences (SequenceBuild Status, Sequences,
82 SequenceProcessStatus, Calibration, Star and DataSetSequenceProcessing)
83 this is the telescope number (fTelescopeNumber) for the tables dealing
84 with runs (RunData and RunProcessStatus) this is in addition the file
85 number (fFileNumber)
86
87 * Added column fPriority to the status tables to be able to steer the order
88 in which the data is processed. As default the run, sequence and dataset
89 number are used.
90
91 ;automatic analyis
92
93 * Adapted scripts to the new data structure: They can handle now different
94 telescopes (getting the information as usual from the database).
95 The paths for Magic 2 are not yet implemented.
96
97 ;general
98
99 * should work now with root 5.20/00 (please note that root 5.20/00
100 we encounter crahses in the status display which are ot yet
101 understood)
102
103 * Sequences and Datasets are now stored as "MDataSet" and "MSequence"
104 instead of the base name of the file. This makes them easier to
105 access from the code
106
107 * Default Monte Carlo names in MSequence do not require the _E at
108 the end anymore
109
110 * where abrrevating a sequence file with a sequence number is possible
111 also "telescope:sequence" is now accepted, e.g.:
112 star 2:2000123 --out=output
113 see the programs' help for more details.
114
115 * sequences (MSequence or MSequenceSQL) can now directly be retrieved
116 from the database. See the constructors for more details.
117
118 * MReadTree now supports friends
119
120 * MReadTree can now read also files not written by MARS and store
121 the data encapsulated in emulated MParContainers
122
123 * added a new starguider calibration valid since 15.1.08
124
125 ;showplot
126
127 * showplot can now read more than one file at once. This is especially
128 inetersting if reading files containing pure canvases
129
130 ;merpp
131
132 * we merpp the dc currents now also from the camera reports (they have
133 just a lower rate than the current reports, 0.1Hz instead of 1Hz)
134
135 * In the automatic analysis we omit merpping of the currents from the
136 caco files and use the lower rate camera reports from the cc files
137 instead
138
139 * merpp has been redisigned to allow merpping of the cc-reports
140 of a whole sequence. This allows to design a very simple analysis:
141 mkdir output
142 ./callisto 100776 --out=output
143 ./merpp 100776 output
144 ./star 100776 --ind=output --out=output
145 Instead of the sequence number also sequence files are accepted.
146
147 * Implemented a fix for run-numbers between 1001348 and 1001396
148 which were incorrectly assigned by the cc.
149
150
151 ;callisto
152
153 * added a filter again which was was removed in the last release.
154 it removed the most brightest events. This should not change
155 any analysis result because these events are so bright that
156 they cannot be analysed anyway, but the bad-pixel plots doesn't
157 show outliers.
158
159 * updated muon calibration constants for the periods 51-57,
160 58-63 and 67-
161
162 ;star
163
164 * The camera currents are now displayed with the rate of the camera
165 reports instead of the caco reports
166
167 ;ganymed
168
169 * if mc camera files are new enough (>=8) the source position in the
170 camera is now calculated from the stored telscope and shower
171 orientation (Note, that this might not be suitable in all cases
172 depending on the aim of the study. These case still needs
173 implementation)
174
175
176
177== Version 2.1 (2008/06/18) ==
178
179 ;Database
180
181 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
182
183 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
184
185 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
186 calibration run
187
188 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
189 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
190
191 ;general
192
193 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
194
195 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
196
197 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
198 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
199 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
200 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
201 using the option --debug-env=3
202
203 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
204 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
205 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
206
207 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
208 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
209 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
210 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
211 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
212 datasets).
213
214 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
215 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
216 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
217
218 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
219 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
220
221 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
222
223 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
224
225 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
226
227 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
228 in the output file
229
230 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
231 special studies)
232
233 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
234 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
235 liniking a lot.
236
237 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
238
239 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
240 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
241 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
242
243 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
244
245 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
246 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
247
248 ;showplot
249
250 * Added support for tiff files
251
252 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
253 name and title)
254
255 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
256
257 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
258 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
259 file name. For details see showplos's help.
260
261 ;merpp
262
263 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
264
265 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
266
267 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
268 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
269 For details see "merpp --help"
270
271 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
272 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
273 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
274 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
275 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
276
277 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
278 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
279
280 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
281 For example:
282 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
283 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
284
285 ;callisto
286
287 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
288 required for succeeding.
289
290 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
291
292 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
293 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
294
295 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
296
297 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
298 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
299 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
300 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
301 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
302
303 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
304 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
305 before the whole accessible range was used.
306
307 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
308 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
309 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
310
311 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
312 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
313
314 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
315 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
316
317 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
318 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
319
320 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
321 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
322
323 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
324 interleaved calibration events
325
326 ;star
327
328 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
329
330 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
331 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
332
333 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
334 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
335 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
336
337 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
338 sum-trigger anymore
339
340 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
341 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
342 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
343 displayed in addition.
344
345 ;ganymed/sponde
346
347 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
348 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
349
350 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
351
352 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
353 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
354 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
355 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
356
357 ;sponde
358
359 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
360
361 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
362 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
363 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
364 it is quantizised in the order of a minute. Therefore you can switch
365 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
366 dead-time!)
367
368 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
369 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
370 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
371
372 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
373 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
374
375 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
376 if an output file given
377
378
379
380 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
381
382 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
383 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
384 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
385 teh check.
386
387 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
388 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
389 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
390 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
391 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
392 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
393 second file.
394
395 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
396 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
397 from the context menu)
398
399 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
400 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
401 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
402 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
403 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
404
405 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
406 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
407
408 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
409 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
410
411 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
412 within an Eventloop.
413
414 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
415 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
416 user defined histograms.
417
418 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
419 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
420 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
421 energy)
422
423 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
424 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
425 judge the result.
426
427 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
428 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
429 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
430 and shows lower bias than all other options.
431
432 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
433 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
434
435 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
436 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
437 doesn't contain off-sequences.
438
439 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
440 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
441 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
442 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
443
444 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
445 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
446 lines to your mars.rc:
447 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
448 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
449 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
450 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
451 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
452 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
453 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
454 use the summary file instead.
455
456 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
457 of calling
458 mars filename.root
459 you can now also use
460 mars sequence.txt
461 or
462 mars sequence.txt inputpath
463 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
464 sequence file should be used.
465
466 - mars: The default size has been increased
467
468 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
469 the calculated image parameters
470
471 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
472
473 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
474 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
475 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
476
477 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
478 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
479 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
480 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
481 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
482 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
483 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
484 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
485
486 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
487 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
488 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
489
490 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
491 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
492 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
493 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
494 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
495 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
496 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
497 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
498 as old files read in.
499
500 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
501 somehow. All constants have been updated.
502
503 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
504 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
505 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
506 updated.
507
508 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
509 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
510 good preselector for muons.
511
512 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
513 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
514 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
515 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
516 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
517
518 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
519 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
520 anything.
521
522 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
523 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
524 + CleanLevel0:
525 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
526 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
527 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
528 + TimeLevel1:
529 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
530 + TimeLevel2:
531 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
532 + PostCleanType:
533 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
534 0: No post cleaning
535 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
536 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
537 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
538 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
539 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
540 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
541 respectively
542 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
543 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
544
545 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
546 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
547 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
548 + CleanTime1: 1.75
549 + CleanTime2: 1.75
550 + PostCleanType: 3
551
552 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
553 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
554 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
555 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
556 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
557 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
558
559 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
560 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
561 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
562 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
563 survive your cuts!
564
565 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
566 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
567 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
568 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
569 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
570 accordingly!
571 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
572 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
573 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
574 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
575 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
576 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
577 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
578
579 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
580 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
581 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
582 you have to use Cut0 instead.
583
584 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
585 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
586 the number of off-regions use
587 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
588 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
589 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
590 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
591 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
592 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
593 is not properly set.
594 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
595
596 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
597 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
598 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
599 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
600 "nearest position" trick)
601
602 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
603 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
604 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
605
606 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
607
608 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
609 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
610 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
611 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
612 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
613 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
614 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
615 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
616 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
617 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
618 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
619 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
620
621 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
622 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
623
624 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
625 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
626 positions have disappeared.
627
628 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
629 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
630 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
631 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
632
633 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
634 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
635
636 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
637 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
638 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
639 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
640 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
641 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
642 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
643 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
644 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
645 no off-cut needed.
646 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
647 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
648
649 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
650
651 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
652 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
653
654 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
655 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
656
657 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
658 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
659
660 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
661 give any improvement in simple.
662
663 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
664 not implemented.
665
666 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
667 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
668 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
669 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
670 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
671
672 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
673 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
674 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
675 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
676 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
677 different maximum impact parameters.
678
679 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
680 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
681 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
682 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
683 survive your cuts at all.
684
685 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
686 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
687 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
688 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
689 If you only store the status display from within the display
690 the information is lost.
691
692 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
693 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
694 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
695 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
696 CutQ and Cut0.
697
698 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
699 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
700 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
701 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
702 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
703 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
704 after all cuts.
705
706 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
707 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
708 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
709 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
710 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
711
712 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
713 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
714 publications, they are only for production.
715
716 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
717 is now processed only once
718
719 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
720 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
721 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
722 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
723 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
724 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
725 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
726 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
727 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
728 in most cases.
729
730
731
732 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
733
734 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
735 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
736 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
737 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
738 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
739 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
740
741 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
742 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
743 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
744 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
745 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
746 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
747
748 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
749 properly because the callisto output was currupted
750
751 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
752 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
753 sequence with different setup.
754
755 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
756 code from cvs.
757
758 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
759 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
760 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
761 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
762
763 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
764 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
765 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
766 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
767 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
768 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
769 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
770 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
771 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
772 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
773 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
774 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
775 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
776 avoidable bias.
777
778 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
779 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
780 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
781 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
782 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
783 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
784
785 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
786 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
787 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
788 problems.
789
790 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
791 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
792 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
793 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
794
795 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
796 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
797 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
798 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
799 ("HeightTm") to -1:
800 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
801 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
802
803
804
805
806 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
807
808 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
809 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
810 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
811
812 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
813
814 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
815
816 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
817 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
818 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
819
820 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
821 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
822
823 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
824 callisto_mux.rc
825
826 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
827 been removed
828
829 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
830 replaced by the MC sequence number
831
832 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
833 -mc option can now be omitted
834
835 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
836 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
837
838 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
839 for further simplification
840
841 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
842 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
843 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
844 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
845 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
846 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
847 properly)
848
849 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
850 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
851 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
852 IACT wiki
853 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
854
855 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
856
857 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
858 the pedestal into account
859
860 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
861 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
862 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
863
864 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
865 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
866 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
867 calibration.
868
869 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
870 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
871 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
872 plus an absolute offset.
873
874 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
875 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
876
877 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
878 outlaying offset as unsuitable
879
880 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
881 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
882 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
883 the relative time calibration seems stable.
884
885 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
886 option can now be omitted.
887
888 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
889 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
890 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
891 dataset file.
892
893 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
894 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
895
896 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
897 for wobble mode
898
899 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
900 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
901 has been added, executed before writing the final output
902 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
903 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
904 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
905 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
906
907 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
908 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
909 it will be written to the output file.
910
911
912
913 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
914
915 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
916
917 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
918 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
919
920 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
921 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
922
923 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
924 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
925 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
926
927 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
928 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
929 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
930 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
931
932 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
933 wrong results.
934
935 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
936
937 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
938 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
939
940 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
941 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
942 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
943 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
944 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
945 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
946
947 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
948
949 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
950 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
951 extractions done
952 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
953 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
954 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
955 not a copy-and-pasted one)
956 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
957 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
958 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
959 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
960 and time which is consistent is returned
961 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
962 solution
963 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
964 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
965 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
966 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
967 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
968 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
969 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
970 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
971
972 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
973 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
974 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
975 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
976 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
977 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
978 temperature effects?)
979
980 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
981 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
982 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
983
984 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
985 light condition to be ignored
986
987 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
988 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
989 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
990 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
991 the "SparkCut" directive
992
993 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
994 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
995
996 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
997 in the new phrase parsing
998
999 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
1000 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1001 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1002 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1003 the other options)
1004 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1005
1006 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
1007 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
1008 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
1009
1010 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
1011 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
1012 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
1013
1014 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
1015
1016 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
1017
1018 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
1019 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
1020 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
1021 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
1022 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
1023 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
1024 or the collection area dominate.
1025
1026
1027
1028 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
1029
1030 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
1031
1032 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
1033 websites.
1034
1035 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
1036 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
1037
1038 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
1039 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
1040 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
1041 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
1042
1043 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
1044 doesn't exist.
1045
1046 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
1047 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
1048
1049 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
1050 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
1051 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
1052
1053 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
1054 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
1055 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
1056 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
1057
1058 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
1059 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
1060 write them into a file in the future)
1061
1062 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
1063 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1064 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1065 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1066 the "DrawAll" option)
1067 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1068
1069
1070
1071 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
1072
1073 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
1074 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
1075 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
1076 wobble source/project
1077
1078 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
1079 moon properties
1080
1081 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
1082 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
1083 or of one star along one year
1084
1085
1086
1087 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
1088
1089 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
1090
1091 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
1092 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
1093 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
1094
1095 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
1096 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
1097 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
1098 properly into account... fixed.
1099
1100
1101
1102 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
1103
1104 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
1105 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
1106 code in this case is 255.
1107
1108 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
1109 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
1110 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
1111 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
1112 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
1113 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
1114 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
1115 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
1116 no-more used instead)
1117
1118 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
1119 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
1120
1121 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
1122 on in the compiler
1123
1124 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
1125 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
1126 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
1127
1128 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
1129 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
1130 is with "-1")
1131
1132 - showplot:
1133 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
1134 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
1135 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
1136 + added support for xml
1137 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
1138 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
1139 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
1140 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
1141 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
1142 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
1143 desktop-size: --auto-size
1144
1145 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
1146
1147 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
1148 program.
1149
1150 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
1151 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
1152
1153 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
1154 not be opened.
1155
1156 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
1157 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
1158 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
1159 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
1160 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
1161 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
1162
1163 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
1164 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
1165 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
1166 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
1167 by the lo-gain extractor
1168
1169 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1170
1171 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1172 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1173 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1174
1175 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1176 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1177 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1178 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1179 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1180 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1181 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1182
1183 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1184 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1185 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1186 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1187
1188 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1189 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1190 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1191 slice has been forbidden)
1192
1193 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1194 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1195 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1196
1197 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1198
1199 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1200 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1201 calibration update has happend.
1202
1203 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1204 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1205 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1206 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1207 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1208 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1209 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1210 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1211 test-database.
1212
1213 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1214 time. It never gave useful information.
1215
1216 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1217 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1218 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1219 LoGainSwitch.
1220
1221 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1222 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1223 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1224 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1225 the LoGainSwitch.
1226
1227 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1228 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1229 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1230 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1231 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1232
1233 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1234 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1235 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1236 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1237
1238 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1239 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1240 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1241 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1242 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1243 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1244 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1245 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1246 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1247 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1248 from the resulting gamma candidates
1249
1250 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1251 with the colz draw-option
1252
1253 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1254
1255 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1256 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1257 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1258 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1259
1260 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1261 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1262 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1263 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1264 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1265
1266 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1267 how to use random forest
1268
1269 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1270 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1271
1272 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1273 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1274 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1275 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1276
1277 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1278 a MC slope of -1.
1279
1280
1281
1282 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1283
1284 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1285 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1286
1287 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1288 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1289 respectively
1290
1291 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1292
1293 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1294
1295 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1296 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1297 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1298 by this arbitrary value.
1299
1300 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1301 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1302 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1303 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1304
1305 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1306 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1307 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1308
1309 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1310
1311 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1312 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1313 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1314 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1315 histograms.
1316 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1317 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1318 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1319
1320 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1321 starguider
1322
1323 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1324 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1325 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1326 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1327 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1328 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1329 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1330 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1331
1332 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1333 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1334 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1335 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1336 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1337
1338 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1339 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1340
1341
1342
1343 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1344
1345 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1346 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1347
1348 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1349 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1350 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1351
1352 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1353 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1354
1355 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1356
1357 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1358
1359 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1360 after 6.3.2006
1361
1362 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1363 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1364 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1365 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1366
1367 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1368 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1369 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1370 Recommended parameters:
1371 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1372 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1373 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1374 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1375
1376 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1377 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1378 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1379 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1380 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1381 time-scale) are missing.
1382
1383 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1384 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1385 people for weak sources.
1386
1387 - macros: plotdb.C:
1388 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1389 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1390 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1391 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1392
1393 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1394 the optimization became a lot faster
1395
1396 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1397 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1398
1399 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1400 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1401 initialization of the starguider calibration
1402
1403 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1404 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1405 resource file using:
1406 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1407 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1408
1409 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1410 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1411 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1412
1413 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1414 trigger (including the software trigger)
1415
1416 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1417 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1418 a defined energy:
1419 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1420
1421 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1422 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1423
1424
1425
1426 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1427
1428 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1429 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1430
1431 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1432 to plot statistics about the data processing
1433
1434 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1435 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1436
1437 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1438
1439 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1440 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1441 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1442 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1443
1444 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1445 different values for different periods
1446
1447 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1448 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1449 effective on-time)
1450
1451 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1452 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1453 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1454 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1455 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1456
1457 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1458
1459 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1460 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1461 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1462 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1463 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1464 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1465
1466 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1467 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1468
1469 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1470
1471 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1472 to 0.06
1473
1474 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1475 resource file.
1476 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1477
1478 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1479 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1480 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1481 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1482 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1483
1484 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1485 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1486
1487 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1488 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1489 on-data.
1490
1491
1492
1493 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1494
1495 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1496 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1497
1498 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1499 are now possible:
1500 showlog callisto 55599
1501 showplot signal 55599
1502 star 55599
1503 callisto 55999
1504 ganymed 2
1505 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1506 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1507 paths ("/magic/*")
1508
1509 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1510 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1511
1512 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1513 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1514
1515 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1516 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1517 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1518 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1519
1520 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1521 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1522 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1523 forest.
1524
1525 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1526 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1527 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1528
1529 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1530 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1531
1532 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1533 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1534
1535 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1536 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1537 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1538 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1539 size ratio.
1540
1541 - RanForest:
1542 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1543 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1544 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1545 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1546 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1547 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1548 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1549 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1550
1551 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1552 the events to be displayed, eg:
1553 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1554 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1555 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1556
1557 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1558 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1559 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1560 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1561 written to the CC tree.
1562
1563 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1564 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1565 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1566 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1567 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1568 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1569
1570 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1571 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1572 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1573 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1574
1575 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1576 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1577 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1578
1579 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1580 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1581
1582 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1583 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1584 --ins=/magic/sequences
1585 and where to search for the image data
1586 --ind=/magic/data/star
1587
1588 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1589 dx/dy from the resource file by
1590 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1591 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1592
1593 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1594 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1595 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1596 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1597 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1598 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1599
1600 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1601 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1602 for on-only analysis'
1603
1604 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1605 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1606
1607 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1608
1609 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1610 they are commonly used.
1611
1612 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1613 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1614
1615
1616
1617 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1618
1619 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1620 how to calculate the threshold
1621
1622 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1623 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1624 and MagicReversi)
1625
1626 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1627
1628 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1629
1630 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1631 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1632
1633 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1634 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1635 automatic processing
1636
1637 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1638 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1639 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1640 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1641 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1642 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1643
1644 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1645 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1646 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1647 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1648 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1649 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1650 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1651 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1652 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
1653 be supressed.
1654
1655 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
1656 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
1657 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
1658 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
1659 algorithm)
1660
1661 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
1662 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
1663 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
1664 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
1665 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
1666 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
1667 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
1668
1669 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
1670 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
1671 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
1672 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
1673 understood.
1674
1675 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
1676 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
1677 are sorted by their sequence number.
1678
1679 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
1680
1681 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
1682
1683
1684
1685 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
1686
1687 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
1688 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
1689 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
1690 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
1691
1692 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
1693 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
1694 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
1695
1696 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
1697 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
1698
1699
1700
1701 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
1702
1703 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
1704 MC binning
1705
1706 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
1707 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
1708
1709 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
1710
1711 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
1712
1713 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
1714
1715 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
1716
1717 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
1718 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
1719
1720 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
1721 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
1722 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
1723 of the subsystem data
1724
1725 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1726 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1727
1728 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1729 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1730
1731 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
1732
1733 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
1734
1735 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
1736
1737 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
1738
1739 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
1740 argument
1741
1742 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
1743 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
1744 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
1745 (MCameraHV).
1746
1747 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
1748 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
1749
1750 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
1751 menu, eg in the TBrowser
1752
1753 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
1754 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
1755 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1756 This is important mainly for timing studies.
1757
1758 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
1759 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
1760 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
1761 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
1762 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
1763 Introduced new limits:
1764 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
1765 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
1766 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
1767
1768 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
1769 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
1770 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
1771
1772 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
1773 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
1774
1775 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
1776 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
1777 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
1778 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
1779 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
1780 to make the distribution reliable.
1781
1782 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
1783 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
1784 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
1785 saturated and produced wrong limits.
1786
1787 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
1788 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
1789 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
1790 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
1791 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
1792
1793 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
1794 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
1795 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
1796 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
1797 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
1798 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
1799 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
1800 a good precision is needed.
1801
1802 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
1803 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
1804
1805 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
1806 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
1807 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
1808 changes.
1809
1810 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
1811 as calculated by MPedestalY2
1812
1813 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
1814 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
1815 calculated from interleaved events
1816
1817 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1818 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1819 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1820 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1821 task
1822
1823 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1824
1825 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1826 DC currents
1827
1828 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1829 Pedestal Rms
1830
1831 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1832
1833 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1834 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1835 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1836 became pedestal rms dependant
1837
1838 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1839 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1840
1841 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1842 May/April 05
1843
1844 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1845 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1846
1847 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1848
1849 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1850
1851 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1852 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1853 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1854
1855 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1856
1857 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1858 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1859 sqrt(2) to large
1860
1861 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1862 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1863 subtracted
1864
1865 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1866 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1867 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1868
1869 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1870 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1871 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1872
1873 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1874 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1875 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1876
1877 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1878 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1879 it off add
1880 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1881 to your ganymed.rc
1882
1883 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1884 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1885 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1886
1887 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1888
1889
1890
1891 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1892
1893 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1894 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1895
1896 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1897 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1898 before any other tree.
1899
1900 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1901 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1902 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1903 correctly.
1904
1905 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1906
1907 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1908 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1909 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1910 the run stored in the runheader.
1911
1912 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1913 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1914 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1915
1916 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1917 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1918 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1919
1920 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1921 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1922 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1923 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1924
1925 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1926 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1927
1928 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1929 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1930 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1931 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1932 is fixed to 1
1933
1934 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1935 more accurate now
1936
1937 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1938 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1939 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1940
1941 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1942
1943 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1944 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1945 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1946
1947 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1948 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1949
1950 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1951 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1952
1953 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1954 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1955
1956 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1957 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1958 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1959 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1960
1961 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1962 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1963 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1964 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1965 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1966 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1967 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1968 the calibration constants by
1969 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1970 and
1971 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1972 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1973 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1974 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1975 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1976
1977 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1978 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1979 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1980 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1981
1982 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1983 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1984
1985 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1986 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1987 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1988 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1989 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1990 at the corresponding classes
1991
1992 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1993 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1994 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1995 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1996 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1997 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1998 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1999
2000 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
2001 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
2002 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
2003
2004 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
2005 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
2006 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
2007 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
2008 normalization is normally wrong.
2009
2010
2011
2012 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
2013
2014 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
2015 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
2016
2017 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
2018 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
2019
2020 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
2021 because ProcessFile is missleading
2022
2023 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
2024
2025 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
2026 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
2027 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
2028
2029 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
2030 versions newer than V200404070
2031
2032 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
2033 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
2034 (MCameraCentralPixel)
2035
2036 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
2037 (MHVsSize)
2038
2039 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
2040
2041 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
2042 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
2043 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
2044 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
2045 can be canged
2046
2047 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
2048 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
2049 using showlog.
2050
2051 - showplot: improved
2052 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
2053 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
2054 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
2055 the printing command from the command line you can use all
2056 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
2057 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
2058 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
2059 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
2060
2061 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
2062 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
2063 intensity has been updated in some cases)
2064
2065 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
2066 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
2067 been taken with Pin Diode.
2068
2069 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
2070 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
2071
2072 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
2073 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
2074
2075 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
2076 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
2077 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
2078 of the cosmisc
2079
2080 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
2081 from 2.5 to 4.5
2082
2083 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
2084 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
2085 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
2086 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
2087
2088 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
2089 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
2090 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
2091 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
2092 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
2093 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
2094 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
2095 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
2096 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
2097 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
2098 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
2099 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
2100 they are a lot slower)
2101 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
2102 random memory access it might by completely random!
2103
2104 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
2105 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
2106 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
2107
2108 - callisto:
2109 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
2110 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
2111 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
2112 Default: -9.0 +4.5
2113 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
2114
2115 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
2116 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
2117
2118 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
2119 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
2120 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
2121 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
2122 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
2123 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
2124 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
2125 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
2126
2127 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
2128 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
2129
2130 - callisto: for the common extractors
2131 + MExtractFixedWindow
2132 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
2133 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
2134 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2135 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
2136 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
2137
2138 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
2139 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
2140 hilocalib_df6.root
2141
2142 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
2143 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
2144 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
2145
2146 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
2147 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
2148 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
2149 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
2150 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
2151 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
2152 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
2153
2154 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
2155 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
2156 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
2157 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
2158 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
2159 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
2160
2161 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
2162
2163 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
2164 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
2165
2166 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
2167 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
2168 changed only minimally
2169
2170 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2171 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2172 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2173
2174 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2175 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2176 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2177 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2178
2179 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2180 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2181
2182
2183
2184 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2185
2186 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2187 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2188 by 0.2 slices)
2189
2190 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2191 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2192
2193 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2194 also done with a intercalibration input file
2195
2196 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2197
2198 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2199
2200 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2201
2202 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2203
2204 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2205
2206 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2207
2208 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2209
2210 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2211 which is more than 5 times the variance
2212
2213 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2214
2215 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2216 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2217
2218 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2219 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2220
2221 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2222 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2223
2224 - update the reference lines for the december data
2225
2226 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2227 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2228 pulse position changes much.
2229
2230 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2231 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2232 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2233
2234 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2235 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2236 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2237 runs a lot.
2238
2239 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2240 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2241
2242 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2243 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2244 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2245 than with old versions (wrong units))
2246
2247 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2248 formats are still unsupported by root)
2249
2250 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2251 for automatic processing
2252
2253
2254
2255 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2256
2257 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2258 decided by the Collaboration Board
2259
2260 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2261
2262 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2263
2264 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2265 and applied in callisto.
2266
2267 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2268
2269 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2270
2271 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2272 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2273
2274 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2275 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2276
2277 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2278 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2279 energy (Size) events.
2280
2281 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2282
2283 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2284 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2285
2286 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2287 (MHexagonalFT)
2288
2289 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2290 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2291
2292 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2293 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2294 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2295
2296 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2297
2298 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2299
2300 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2301 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2302
2303 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2304
2305 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2306 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2307 the slices by statistics
2308 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2309 signal extractor without randomization
2310 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2311 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2312 randomly fixed)
2313 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2314 long as nobody really needs it:
2315 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2316 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2317
2318 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2319
2320 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2321 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2322 roughly 0.5%
2323
2324 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2325 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2326 batch mode possible:
2327 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2328
2329 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2330 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2331
2332 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2333 camera files.
2334
2335 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2336
2337 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2338 accurate now
2339
2340 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2341 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2342 * the new implementation is faster and
2343 * needs less storage space
2344
2345 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2346 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2347
2348 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2349 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2350
2351 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2352
2353 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2354
2355
2356
2357 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2358
2359 - New combined signal and time extractor
2360 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2361
2362 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2363 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2364
2365 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2366
2367 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2368 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2369 more): showlog
2370
2371 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2372 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2373
2374 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2375 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2376 source
2377
2378 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2379 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2380
2381 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2382
2383 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2384 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2385
2386 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2387 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2388
2389 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2390 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2391 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2392
2393 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2394 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2395
2396 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2397 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2398
2399 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2400 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2401
2402 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2403 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2404 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2405
2406 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2407 version 4)
2408
2409 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2410 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2411
2412 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2413 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2414 a resource file: star.rc
2415
2416 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2417 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2418
2419 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2420 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2421
2422 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2423 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2424 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2425
2426 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2427 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2428 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2429 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2430
2431 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2432 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2433 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2434
2435 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2436 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2437 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2438
2439
2440
2441 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2442
2443 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2444 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2445
2446 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2447
2448 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2449
2450 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2451
2452 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2453
2454 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2455 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2456 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2457
2458 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2459
2460 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2461 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2462 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2463
2464 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2465 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2466
2467 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2468
2469 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2470
2471
2472
2473 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2474
2475 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2476 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2477
2478 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2479 ("pow(a, b)")
2480
2481 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2482 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2483
2484 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2485 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2486
2487 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2488 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2489 is implemented through the new virtual function
2490 MParContainer::SetVariables
2491
2492 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2493 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2494
2495 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2496 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2497
2498 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2499 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2500
2501 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2502 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2503 and will replace them.
2504
2505 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2506
2507 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2508 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2509 slices in the maximum window
2510
2511 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2512 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2513 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2514 studies.
2515
2516 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2517 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2518 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2519 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2520
2521 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2522 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2523
2524 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2525 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2526 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2527 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2528 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2529 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2530
2531 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2532 macro pedphotcalc.C
2533
2534 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2535
2536 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2537
2538 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2539 minimizations
2540
2541 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2542 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2543
2544 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2545
2546 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2547 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2548 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2549
2550 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2551 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2552
2553 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2554 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2555
2556 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2557
2558 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2559
2560 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2561
2562 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2563
2564 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2565
2566 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2567 + MJPedestals
2568 + MJCalibration
2569 + MJExtractSignal
2570 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2571
2572 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2573
2574 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2575 the evolution of a sector vs time
2576
2577
2578
2579 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2580
2581 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2582 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2583 camera version 0.7.
2584
2585 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2586 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2587
2588 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2589
2590 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2591 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2592 be done soon.
2593
2594 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2595 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2596
2597 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2598 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2599 of time (readrep.C)
2600
2601 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2602 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2603 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2604
2605 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2606 + Events --> Events
2607 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2608 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2609
2610 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2611
2612 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2613
2614 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2615 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2616
2617 - added classes to calculate event rate
2618 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2619
2620 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2621
2622 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2623
2624 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2625 the new 'Synchonizer'
2626
2627
2628
2629 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2630
2631 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2632 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2633 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2634
2635 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2636 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2637 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2638
2639 - added a new executable star which implements the
2640 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2641 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2642
2643 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2644 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2645 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2646
2647 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2648 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2649
2650 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2651
2652
2653
2654 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
2655
2656 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
2657 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
2658 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
2659 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
2660
2661 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
2662 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
2663
2664 - added pedestal calculation
2665
2666 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
2667 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
2668
2669 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
2670
2671 - added basic routines to apply padding
2672
2673 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
2674 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
2675
2676 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
2677 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
2678
2679 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
2680 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
2681
2682 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
2683 at all)
2684
2685 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
2686 ignore files
2687
2688 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
2689 to simulate the PMT camera
2690
2691 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
2692 programs in the MC chain.
2693
2694 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
2695 parameter in an eventloop.
2696
2697 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
2698 location (Long, Lat, etc)
2699
2700 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
2701
2702 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
2703 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
2704
2705 - added a new status display which can show the present status
2706 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
2707 an example can be found at status.C)
2708
2709 - reorganized directories:
2710 classes describing the image --> mimage
2711 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
2712 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
2713
2714 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
2715
2716 - colors in logging output to screen
2717
2718 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
2719 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
2720 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
2721 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
2722 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
2723
2724 - reading of reflector files
2725
2726 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2727
2728 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2729
2730 - logarithmic scale in camera
2731
2732 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
2733
2734
2735
2736 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
2737
2738 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
2739
2740 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
2741 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
2742 missing a single NN)
2743
2744 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
2745 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
2746 have any neighbour)
2747
2748 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
2749 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
2750 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
2751 please ask Abelardo)
2752
2753 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
2754 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
2755
2756 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
2757
2758 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
2759 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
2760 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
2761 changed.
2762
2763 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
2764 (MHMatrix)
2765
2766 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
2767 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
2768
2769 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
2770 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
2771
2772 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
2773 event display gui.
2774
2775 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
2776
2777 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
2778
2779 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
2780
2781 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
2782 to MHillas
2783
2784 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
2785
2786 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
2787
2788 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
2789
2790 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
2791
2792 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
2793 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
2794 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
2795
2796 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
2797
2798 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
2799 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
2800
2801 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
2802 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
2803 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
2804 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
2805 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
2806
2807 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
2808 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
2809
2810 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
2811 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
2812
2813 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
2814 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
2815
2816 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2817
2818 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2819
2820 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2821 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2822
2823 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2824 (thanks to Raquel)
2825
2826 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2827 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2828
2829 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2830 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2831 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2832
2833
2834
2835 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2836
2837 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2838 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2839 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2840 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2841
2842 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2843 for the collection area calculation
2844
2845 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2846 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2847
2848 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2849 of one container
2850
2851 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2852 ascii file
2853
2854 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2855 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2856 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2857 hillas parameters)
2858
2859 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2860 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2861 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2862
2863 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2864 see MHillasSrc
2865
2866 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2867 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2868 all histograms)
2869
2870 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2871
2872 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2873
2874 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2875
2876 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2877 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2878
2879 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2880 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2881
2882 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2883 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2884
2885 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2886 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2887
2888 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2889
2890 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2891 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2892 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2893
2894 - Added:
2895 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2896 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2897 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2898 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2899 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2900 of Theta and the true energy
2901
2902 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2903 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2904 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2905 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2906 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2907 by unfolding
2908
2909 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2910
2911
2912
2913 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2914
2915 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2916 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2917 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2918
2919 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2920
2921 - Introduced verbosity levels
2922
2923 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2924
2925 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2926 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2927
2928 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2929 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2930
2931 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2932
2933 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2934
2935 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2936 of a parameter container for each event
2937
2938 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2939
2940 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2941
2942 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2943 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2944 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2945
2946 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2947 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2948 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2949
2950
2951
2952 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2953
2954 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2955
2956 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2957 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2958
2959 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2960 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2961 states
2962
2963 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2964 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2965
2966 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2967
2968 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2969 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2970
2971 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2972 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2973
2974 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2975 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2976 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2977
2978 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2979 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2980
2981 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2982 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2983
2984 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2985 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2986
2987
2988
2989 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2990
2991 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2992
2993 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2994
2995 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2996
2997 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2998
2999 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
3000
3001 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
3002
3003 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
3004
3005 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
3006
3007 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
3008 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
3009
3010
3011
3012 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
3013
3014 - Many demo macros added
3015
3016 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
3017
3018 - Hillas Calculation added
3019
3020 - Standard image cleaning available
3021
3022 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
3023 (Remark: of the same structure)
3024
3025 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
3026 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
3027 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
3028
3029
3030
3031 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
3032
3033 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
3034 gui with the command mars.
3035
3036
3037
3038 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
3039
3040 - First official release 0.1
3041
3042 - Changes:
3043
3044 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
3045 while-loop
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