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2
3== <cvs> ==
4
5 ;general:
6
7 * Added a new palette "temp" to MH::SetPalette which should resample
8 a temperature
9
10 * Added consistency check for two consecutive runs
11
12 ;showplot:
13
14 * If a file without a MStatusArray is opened all object (not just
15 canvases) found in the file are drawn. Note that this may result
16 in empty tabs.
17
18 ;ceres:
19
20 * The night sky noise is now scaled with the sensitive area and
21 is given in units per square centimeter
22
23 * Added the possibility to add a cut after the image parameter
24 calculation (''Cut'')
25
26 * updated the PDE of the GAPDs with a more reliable curve from
27 the meeting page (linear extrapolate below 350nm)
28
29 * The impact distribution in the event distrbutions is now
30 perpendicular to Alt/Az and the histogram is displayed in 1D
31
32 * The GAPD PDE has been updated
33
34 * PDEs and mirror reflectivities have been linearily extrapolated
35 to match the wavelegth range between 290nm and 900nm
36
37 * There is no default pulse shape anymoe it must be given in
38 the resource file
39
40 * Fixed a bug which caused the aerosol coefficient to be incorrectly
41 initialized. The effect might be random but seems to be small.
42
43 * Now accepts sequence files as input
44
45 * creation of pedestal and calibration files is now steered by
46 --mode (see ceres help)
47
48 ;callisto:
49
50 * Fixed a bug which prevented MAGIC Monte Carlo file from being
51 calibrated (ceres files worked)
52
53 ;star:
54
55 * allow to run thru even if discriminator threshold are missing
56 (they are not used for analysis so far anyway)
57
58 ;ganymed:
59
60 * added new starguider calibration for sequences since 1000534
61
62 ;database:
63
64 * added possiblity to query/plot data from certain source (with
65 regular expressions) in plotdb.php
66
67
68
69== Version 2.3 (2009/03/07) ==
70
71 ;SUGGESTION
72
73 * There is no need to re-run any data because no change took place which
74 could have an effect on the output. However, if you want a
75 meaningful SrcPos plot for your MCs in sponde you must re-process
76 star for your MCs first.
77
78 ;REMARK
79
80 * File produced with this release containing a camera geometry (which
81 are basically all files were produced as default) will not be readable
82 by older releases.
83
84 ;general
85
86 * fixed a few small bugs which could cause the display to crash in ganymed
87 and sponde
88
89 * in sequence file the date can now be omittet. In this case the
90 leading date with the underscore is missing in the expected filename
91
92 * the geometry class now also supports other geometries than just hexagons
93
94 ;automation
95
96 * added magnetic field Azimuth direction (ARRANG), currently
97 at ~ -7deg at La Palma
98
99 ;database
100
101 * plotdb.php: added default (sequences) for startup, added possibility
102 to set size of plot
103
104 * added a new table ''RunDataCheck'' which containes the rates after
105 image cleaning for every run which succeeded star. It can be
106 plotted using ''plotrundb.C''
107
108 ;merpp
109
110 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200812140
111
112 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200809030
113
114 ;mars
115
116 * The display now also displays the trigger pattern
117
118 * The display can now display ceres reflector (_R_) files
119
120 ;ceres
121
122 * added a uniformly distributed one-bin time jitter for the start of the
123 digitization. Otherwise the first photon would be digitized always with
124 the same alignment to the bins
125
126 * Added a plot showing the production height of the photons
127
128 * Moved the particle id from the event header to the run header
129
130 * Added the possibility to simulate a psf on the camera plane (MSimPSF)
131
132 * Added a new plot ''SignalMax'' showing the maximum entry into the pixels
133
134 * Added many new options to control the tasks. For deatils see ''ceres.rc''
135
136 * Removed obsolete plots in pedestal and calibration mode
137
138 * Removed the non-NightSky photons from the plots where they are just
139 disturbing
140
141 * Added a trigger pattern to the output (Ped, Cal or Lvl1)
142
143 * The daq event number now represents the readout number
144
145 * The camera ''electronics'' can now be ''switched off''
146
147 * A new tab ''Info'' now display basic things like the reflector
148 layout
149
150 * Improved reading speed for corsika files
151
152 * Improved memory handling (if a large ampount of memory was needed
153 for a single event all further events were stored in the same
154 memory and it was never freed, so the program took this memory
155 until the end)
156
157 * Converted the code from MMCS' reflector program to MSimAtmosphere
158 (instead of the tables build in for MAGIC Winter and Summer
159 atmosphere we use the values written by Corsika fitted to the
160 tabulated atmosphere given as input)
161
162 * For caluclating the displayed image parameters in ceres a basic
163 image cleaning removing isolated pixels is now done.
164
165 * The magnetic field direction (ARRANG) is now taken into account
166
167 * Added plot for the energy threshold after trigger ''Threshold''
168
169 * Added plot for the effective collection area after trigger ''TrigArea''
170
171 ;star
172
173 * Now outputs MSrcPosCam for Monte Carlos in the Events tree.
174
175 * The definition of fConcCore has slightly changed. The numbers
176 might decrease a little bit (the effect should be rather small)
177
178 ;ganymed
179
180 * added pointing model 328198
181
182 ;sponde
183
184 * The SrcPos plot for your MCs was so far meaningless because it just
185 displayes the MSrcPosCam data from the input star-files. Unfortunately,
186 this containes was never written to the star-files yet.
187
188 * A new Tab 'OnTime' is available which is an effective on-time
189 fit as in star but for all data. This is mainly for manual cross-check
190 of the effective on-time
191
192 * In some circumstances it might be necessary to re-calculate the
193 eff. on-time from the fit in the new tab, e.g. when a zenith distance
194 cut was made in ganymed. This can now be forced by ''--force-ontimefit''
195
196 * now reads the ''ganymed.rc'' from the ''ganymed.root'' and writes
197 it to its own output file (for convinience)
198
199
200
201== Version 2.2 (2009/01/30) ==
202
203 ;SUGGESTION
204
205 * This release doesn't contain a major change which is expected to
206 change your results. Nevertheless there are small changes to
207 the calibration which can effect at least the first few hundred
208 events in any (mainly MUX and even more SUM) sequence a little bit.
209 So it is recommended although not necessary to reset your sequences
210 in the database before further processing.
211
212 ;NEW
213
214 * A first implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation program
215 (ceres - Camera Electronics and REflector Simulation) has been
216 implemented. It can simulate a full telescope already including
217 a complete reflector simulation and a flexible trigger and readout
218 simulation. Currently, no perfect setup is implemented and
219 especially the output of the program (data structure) should
220 be considered alpha state. Also the user interface is not yet
221 ready.
222
223 ;general
224
225 * All command line options after -- are now interpreted as
226 arguments (usually everything which doesn't start with a minus)
227 rather than options (usually everything which starts with a
228 minus). This allows to use file names starting with a -
229
230 * In all resource files you can now initialize the random number
231 generator. For details see: MJob::InitRandomNumberGenerator
232
233 * added a new program called ''readcorsika''. It's purpose is (in analogy
234 to readraw and readdaq) to read a Corsika output file (for now
235 only cherenkov output is supported) and print its contents in a
236 human readable form. It can also write the contents of this file
237 into a root-file.
238
239 * The calculation of the maximum distance to the origin in a MGeomCam
240 has been improved (edges might be further away than the sides).
241 This is just a tiny change but it might change the appearance of
242 the radial profiles a little bit.
243
244 * The default binning of the center-of-gravity plot has slightly been
245 increased
246
247 ;Database
248
249 * Added informations about the DC currents (fMinCurrents, fMedCurrents
250 and fMaxCurrents). The values are retrieved from the plots showing
251 the average DC currents of all pixels versus time.
252
253 * Websites with tables have now the opportunity to remove lines
254 ('-' button at beginning of each line) and get all lines back
255 ('+' at top of the column)
256
257 * Websites: added option to query only sequences containing sumtrigger
258 events
259
260 * Websites: added option to group by date (year, month, night) for runs
261 and sequences and enabled that combining of different group-bys,
262 e.g. status, date and source is possible
263
264 ;automatic analyis
265
266 * Rewritten producing plots in the web.
267 New plots, namely the output of plotoptical.C (extinction curve from
268 KVA), plotstat.C (status of the automatic analysis (percentage of
269 processed, analysed data etc.)) and plotusage.C (statistics of the
270 condor usage in the data center) has been are available now next to the
271 plots of plotdb.C
272 Mean values from the plots (output of the macro) are provided in a
273 txt file now.
274 The creation of the plots for callisto, star and ganymed in the web is
275 now steered via database. Consequently the plots are faster and
276 reliable up-to-date.
277 For all plots, a new layout is available facilitating the browsing
278 through the plots and providing additional information on the
279 displayed values. (tabs.php) These plots are linked from the DB
280 websites and the wiki.
281
282 ;statusdisplay
283
284 * The ''Loop'' entry in the menu bar now contains an option to pause
285 the loop and to process single events.
286
287 ;merpp
288
289 * Fixed merpping of raw-files (the runheader tree got the name RunHeader
290 instead of RunHeaders)
291
292 * Now allows to merpp files newer than 2008/09/03.
293
294 * Added fixes for wrong (wrong or double) run- and file-numbers
295 written by Arehucas. For deatils see MRawRunHeader::FixRunNumbers
296
297 ;callisto
298
299 * Extracting the pulse position for the pulse position check events
300 with sum trigger were denied. This decreased the statistics
301 extremely and therefor the resulting puse position was calculated
302 quite weak. Now sum events pass the calculation if and only if they
303 have also a level 1 trigger.
304
305 * the extraction of pedestal events and pulse position from the
306 first data events is now more automatic and makes sure that
307 a more precise number of events is extracted independent of
308 the ratio with which pedestal events or events with signals
309 are contained in the data.
310
311 * Updated Muon calibration constants for all MUX data (teh changes were
312 all smaller than 5%)
313
314 ;star
315
316 * For the calculation of the effective on time all sum-triggered events
317 were skipped. Now all Level1-triggeres events will pass. This might
318 result in a slight inaccuracy of the effective on time.
319
320 ;ganymed
321
322 * If the source position is more than 1deg away from the camera
323 center an error is raised now.
324
325 * Hopefully fixed the bug ''ganymed crashes when resized''
326
327 ;sponde
328
329 * Fixed a problem which causes the fitted spectral slope to be displayed
330 incorrectly. If you use MJSpectrum::FormFlux in your macros make
331 sure that the parameter 0 of your fit is negative.
332
333 * Added a histogram showing the read source position of your MCs
334
335
336
337== Version 2.1.1 (2008/08/04) ==
338
339 ;Database
340
341 * Added the median number of photo electrons from the calibration
342 pulses to the db (fMedNumPheInner, fMedNumPheOuter) and the relative
343 error of their raw counts (fRelChargeRmsInner, fRelChargeRmsOuter)
344
345 * Added fTotOnTime, which is the on-time as given by the run-headers
346 (in contradiction to fAbsOnTime which comes from CC)
347
348 * Added new primaries for the new data structure (Magic II): for the
349 tables dealing with sequences (SequenceBuild Status, Sequences,
350 SequenceProcessStatus, Calibration, Star and DataSetSequenceProcessing)
351 this is the telescope number (fTelescopeNumber) for the tables dealing
352 with runs (RunData and RunProcessStatus) this is in addition the file
353 number (fFileNumber)
354
355 * Added column fPriority to the status tables to be able to steer the order
356 in which the data is processed. As default the run, sequence and dataset
357 number are used.
358
359 ;automatic analyis
360
361 * Adapted scripts to the new data structure: They can handle now different
362 telescopes (getting the information as usual from the database).
363 The paths for Magic 2 are not yet implemented.
364
365 ;general
366
367 * should work now with root 5.20/00 (please note that root 5.20/00
368 we encounter crahses in the status display which are ot yet
369 understood)
370
371 * Sequences and Datasets are now stored as "MDataSet" and "MSequence"
372 instead of the base name of the file. This makes them easier to
373 access from the code
374
375 * Default Monte Carlo names in MSequence do not require the _E at
376 the end anymore
377
378 * where abrrevating a sequence file with a sequence number is possible
379 also "telescope:sequence" is now accepted, e.g.:
380 star 2:2000123 --out=output
381 see the programs' help for more details.
382
383 * sequences (MSequence or MSequenceSQL) can now directly be retrieved
384 from the database. See the constructors for more details.
385
386 * MReadTree now supports friends
387
388 * MReadTree can now read also files not written by MARS and store
389 the data encapsulated in emulated MParContainers
390
391 * added a new starguider calibration valid since 15.1.08
392
393 ;showplot
394
395 * showplot can now read more than one file at once. This is especially
396 inetersting if reading files containing pure canvases
397
398 ;merpp
399
400 * we merpp the dc currents now also from the camera reports (they have
401 just a lower rate than the current reports, 0.1Hz instead of 1Hz)
402
403 * In the automatic analysis we omit merpping of the currents from the
404 caco files and use the lower rate camera reports from the cc files
405 instead
406
407 * merpp has been redisigned to allow merpping of the cc-reports
408 of a whole sequence. This allows to design a very simple analysis:
409 mkdir output
410 ./callisto 100776 --out=output
411 ./merpp 100776 output
412 ./star 100776 --ind=output --out=output
413 Instead of the sequence number also sequence files are accepted.
414
415 * Implemented a fix for run-numbers between 1001348 and 1001396
416 which were incorrectly assigned by the cc.
417
418
419 ;callisto
420
421 * added a filter again which was was removed in the last release.
422 it removed the most brightest events. This should not change
423 any analysis result because these events are so bright that
424 they cannot be analysed anyway, but the bad-pixel plots doesn't
425 show outliers.
426
427 * updated muon calibration constants for the periods 51-57,
428 58-63 and 67-
429
430 ;star
431
432 * The camera currents are now displayed with the rate of the camera
433 reports instead of the caco reports
434
435 ;ganymed
436
437 * if mc camera files are new enough (>=8) the source position in the
438 camera is now calculated from the stored telscope and shower
439 orientation (Note, that this might not be suitable in all cases
440 depending on the aim of the study. These case still needs
441 implementation)
442
443
444
445== Version 2.1 (2008/06/18) ==
446
447 ;Database
448
449 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
450
451 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
452
453 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
454 calibration run
455
456 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
457 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
458
459 ;general
460
461 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
462
463 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
464
465 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
466 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
467 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
468 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
469 using the option --debug-env=3
470
471 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
472 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
473 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
474
475 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
476 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
477 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
478 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
479 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
480 datasets).
481
482 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
483 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
484 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
485
486 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
487 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
488
489 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
490
491 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
492
493 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
494
495 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
496 in the output file
497
498 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
499 special studies)
500
501 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
502 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
503 liniking a lot.
504
505 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
506
507 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
508 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
509 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
510
511 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
512
513 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
514 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
515
516 ;showplot
517
518 * Added support for tiff files
519
520 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
521 name and title)
522
523 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
524
525 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
526 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
527 file name. For details see showplos's help.
528
529 ;merpp
530
531 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
532
533 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
534
535 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
536 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
537 For details see "merpp --help"
538
539 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
540 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
541 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
542 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
543 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
544
545 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
546 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
547
548 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
549 For example:
550 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
551 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
552
553 ;callisto
554
555 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
556 required for succeeding.
557
558 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
559
560 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
561 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
562
563 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
564
565 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
566 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
567 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
568 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
569 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
570
571 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
572 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
573 before the whole accessible range was used.
574
575 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
576 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
577 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
578
579 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
580 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
581
582 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
583 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
584
585 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
586 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
587
588 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
589 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
590
591 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
592 interleaved calibration events
593
594 ;star
595
596 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
597
598 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
599 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
600
601 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
602 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
603 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
604
605 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
606 sum-trigger anymore
607
608 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
609 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
610 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
611 displayed in addition.
612
613 ;ganymed/sponde
614
615 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
616 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
617
618 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
619
620 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
621 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
622 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
623 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
624
625 ;sponde
626
627 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
628
629 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
630 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
631 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
632 it is quantizised in the order of a minute. Therefore you can switch
633 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
634 dead-time!)
635
636 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
637 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
638 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
639
640 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
641 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
642
643 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
644 if an output file given
645
646
647
648 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
649
650 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
651 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
652 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
653 teh check.
654
655 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
656 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
657 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
658 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
659 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
660 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
661 second file.
662
663 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
664 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
665 from the context menu)
666
667 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
668 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
669 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
670 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
671 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
672
673 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
674 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
675
676 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
677 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
678
679 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
680 within an Eventloop.
681
682 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
683 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
684 user defined histograms.
685
686 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
687 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
688 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
689 energy)
690
691 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
692 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
693 judge the result.
694
695 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
696 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
697 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
698 and shows lower bias than all other options.
699
700 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
701 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
702
703 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
704 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
705 doesn't contain off-sequences.
706
707 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
708 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
709 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
710 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
711
712 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
713 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
714 lines to your mars.rc:
715 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
716 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
717 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
718 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
719 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
720 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
721 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
722 use the summary file instead.
723
724 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
725 of calling
726 mars filename.root
727 you can now also use
728 mars sequence.txt
729 or
730 mars sequence.txt inputpath
731 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
732 sequence file should be used.
733
734 - mars: The default size has been increased
735
736 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
737 the calculated image parameters
738
739 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
740
741 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
742 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
743 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
744
745 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
746 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
747 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
748 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
749 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
750 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
751 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
752 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
753
754 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
755 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
756 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
757
758 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
759 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
760 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
761 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
762 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
763 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
764 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
765 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
766 as old files read in.
767
768 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
769 somehow. All constants have been updated.
770
771 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
772 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
773 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
774 updated.
775
776 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
777 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
778 good preselector for muons.
779
780 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
781 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
782 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
783 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
784 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
785
786 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
787 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
788 anything.
789
790 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
791 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
792 + CleanLevel0:
793 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
794 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
795 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
796 + TimeLevel1:
797 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
798 + TimeLevel2:
799 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
800 + PostCleanType:
801 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
802 0: No post cleaning
803 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
804 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
805 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
806 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
807 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
808 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
809 respectively
810 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
811 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
812
813 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
814 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
815 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
816 + CleanTime1: 1.75
817 + CleanTime2: 1.75
818 + PostCleanType: 3
819
820 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
821 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
822 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
823 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
824 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
825 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
826
827 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
828 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
829 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
830 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
831 survive your cuts!
832
833 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
834 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
835 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
836 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
837 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
838 accordingly!
839 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
840 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
841 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
842 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
843 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
844 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
845 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
846
847 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
848 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
849 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
850 you have to use Cut0 instead.
851
852 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
853 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
854 the number of off-regions use
855 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
856 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
857 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
858 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
859 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
860 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
861 is not properly set.
862 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
863
864 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
865 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
866 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
867 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
868 "nearest position" trick)
869
870 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
871 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
872 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
873
874 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
875
876 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
877 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
878 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
879 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
880 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
881 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
882 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
883 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
884 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
885 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
886 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
887 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
888
889 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
890 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
891
892 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
893 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
894 positions have disappeared.
895
896 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
897 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
898 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
899 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
900
901 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
902 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
903
904 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
905 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
906 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
907 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
908 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
909 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
910 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
911 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
912 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
913 no off-cut needed.
914 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
915 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
916
917 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
918
919 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
920 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
921
922 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
923 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
924
925 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
926 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
927
928 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
929 give any improvement in simple.
930
931 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
932 not implemented.
933
934 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
935 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
936 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
937 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
938 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
939
940 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
941 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
942 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
943 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
944 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
945 different maximum impact parameters.
946
947 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
948 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
949 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
950 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
951 survive your cuts at all.
952
953 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
954 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
955 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
956 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
957 If you only store the status display from within the display
958 the information is lost.
959
960 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
961 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
962 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
963 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
964 CutQ and Cut0.
965
966 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
967 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
968 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
969 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
970 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
971 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
972 after all cuts.
973
974 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
975 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
976 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
977 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
978 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
979
980 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
981 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
982 publications, they are only for production.
983
984 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
985 is now processed only once
986
987 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
988 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
989 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
990 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
991 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
992 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
993 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
994 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
995 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
996 in most cases.
997
998
999
1000 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
1001
1002 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
1003 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
1004 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
1005 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
1006 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
1007 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
1008
1009 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
1010 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
1011 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
1012 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
1013 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
1014 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
1015
1016 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
1017 properly because the callisto output was currupted
1018
1019 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
1020 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
1021 sequence with different setup.
1022
1023 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
1024 code from cvs.
1025
1026 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
1027 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
1028 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
1029 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
1030
1031 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
1032 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
1033 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
1034 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
1035 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
1036 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
1037 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
1038 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
1039 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
1040 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
1041 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
1042 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
1043 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
1044 avoidable bias.
1045
1046 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
1047 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
1048 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
1049 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
1050 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
1051 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
1052
1053 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1054 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
1055 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
1056 problems.
1057
1058 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1059 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
1060 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
1061 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
1062
1063 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
1064 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
1065 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
1066 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
1067 ("HeightTm") to -1:
1068 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
1069 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
1070
1071
1072
1073
1074 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
1075
1076 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
1077 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
1078 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
1079
1080 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
1081
1082 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
1083
1084 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
1085 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
1086 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
1087
1088 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
1089 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
1090
1091 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
1092 callisto_mux.rc
1093
1094 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
1095 been removed
1096
1097 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
1098 replaced by the MC sequence number
1099
1100 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
1101 -mc option can now be omitted
1102
1103 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
1104 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
1105
1106 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
1107 for further simplification
1108
1109 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
1110 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
1111 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
1112 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
1113 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
1114 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
1115 properly)
1116
1117 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
1118 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
1119 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
1120 IACT wiki
1121 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
1122
1123 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
1124
1125 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
1126 the pedestal into account
1127
1128 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
1129 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
1130 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
1131
1132 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
1133 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
1134 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
1135 calibration.
1136
1137 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
1138 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
1139 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
1140 plus an absolute offset.
1141
1142 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
1143 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
1144
1145 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
1146 outlaying offset as unsuitable
1147
1148 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
1149 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
1150 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
1151 the relative time calibration seems stable.
1152
1153 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
1154 option can now be omitted.
1155
1156 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
1157 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
1158 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
1159 dataset file.
1160
1161 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
1162 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
1163
1164 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
1165 for wobble mode
1166
1167 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
1168 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
1169 has been added, executed before writing the final output
1170 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
1171 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
1172 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
1173 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
1174
1175 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
1176 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
1177 it will be written to the output file.
1178
1179
1180
1181 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
1182
1183 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
1184
1185 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
1186 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
1187
1188 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
1189 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
1190
1191 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
1192 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
1193 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
1194
1195 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
1196 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
1197 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
1198 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
1199
1200 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
1201 wrong results.
1202
1203 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
1204
1205 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
1206 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
1207
1208 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
1209 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
1210 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
1211 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
1212 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
1213 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
1214
1215 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
1216
1217 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
1218 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
1219 extractions done
1220 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
1221 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
1222 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
1223 not a copy-and-pasted one)
1224 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
1225 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
1226 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
1227 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
1228 and time which is consistent is returned
1229 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
1230 solution
1231 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
1232 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
1233 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
1234 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
1235 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
1236 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
1237 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
1238 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
1239
1240 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
1241 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
1242 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
1243 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
1244 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
1245 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
1246 temperature effects?)
1247
1248 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
1249 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
1250 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
1251
1252 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
1253 light condition to be ignored
1254
1255 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
1256 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
1257 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
1258 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
1259 the "SparkCut" directive
1260
1261 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
1262 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
1263
1264 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
1265 in the new phrase parsing
1266
1267 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
1268 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1269 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1270 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1271 the other options)
1272 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1273
1274 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
1275 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
1276 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
1277
1278 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
1279 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
1280 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
1281
1282 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
1283
1284 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
1285
1286 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
1287 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
1288 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
1289 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
1290 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
1291 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
1292 or the collection area dominate.
1293
1294
1295
1296 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
1297
1298 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
1299
1300 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
1301 websites.
1302
1303 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
1304 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
1305
1306 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
1307 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
1308 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
1309 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
1310
1311 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
1312 doesn't exist.
1313
1314 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
1315 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
1316
1317 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
1318 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
1319 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
1320
1321 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
1322 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
1323 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
1324 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
1325
1326 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
1327 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
1328 write them into a file in the future)
1329
1330 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
1331 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1332 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1333 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1334 the "DrawAll" option)
1335 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1336
1337
1338
1339 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
1340
1341 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
1342 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
1343 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
1344 wobble source/project
1345
1346 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
1347 moon properties
1348
1349 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
1350 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
1351 or of one star along one year
1352
1353
1354
1355 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
1356
1357 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
1358
1359 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
1360 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
1361 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
1362
1363 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
1364 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
1365 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
1366 properly into account... fixed.
1367
1368
1369
1370 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
1371
1372 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
1373 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
1374 code in this case is 255.
1375
1376 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
1377 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
1378 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
1379 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
1380 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
1381 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
1382 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
1383 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
1384 no-more used instead)
1385
1386 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
1387 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
1388
1389 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
1390 on in the compiler
1391
1392 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
1393 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
1394 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
1395
1396 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
1397 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
1398 is with "-1")
1399
1400 - showplot:
1401 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
1402 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
1403 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
1404 + added support for xml
1405 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
1406 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
1407 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
1408 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
1409 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
1410 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
1411 desktop-size: --auto-size
1412
1413 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
1414
1415 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
1416 program.
1417
1418 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
1419 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
1420
1421 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
1422 not be opened.
1423
1424 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
1425 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
1426 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
1427 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
1428 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
1429 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
1430
1431 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
1432 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
1433 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
1434 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
1435 by the lo-gain extractor
1436
1437 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1438
1439 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1440 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1441 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1442
1443 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1444 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1445 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1446 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1447 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1448 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1449 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1450
1451 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1452 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1453 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1454 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1455
1456 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1457 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1458 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1459 slice has been forbidden)
1460
1461 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1462 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1463 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1464
1465 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1466
1467 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1468 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1469 calibration update has happend.
1470
1471 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1472 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1473 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1474 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1475 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1476 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1477 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1478 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1479 test-database.
1480
1481 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1482 time. It never gave useful information.
1483
1484 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1485 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1486 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1487 LoGainSwitch.
1488
1489 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1490 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1491 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1492 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1493 the LoGainSwitch.
1494
1495 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1496 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1497 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1498 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1499 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1500
1501 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1502 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1503 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1504 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1505
1506 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1507 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1508 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1509 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1510 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1511 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1512 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1513 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1514 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1515 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1516 from the resulting gamma candidates
1517
1518 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1519 with the colz draw-option
1520
1521 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1522
1523 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1524 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1525 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1526 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1527
1528 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1529 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1530 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1531 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1532 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1533
1534 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1535 how to use random forest
1536
1537 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1538 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1539
1540 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1541 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1542 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1543 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1544
1545 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1546 a MC slope of -1.
1547
1548
1549
1550 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1551
1552 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1553 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1554
1555 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1556 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1557 respectively
1558
1559 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1560
1561 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1562
1563 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1564 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1565 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1566 by this arbitrary value.
1567
1568 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1569 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1570 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1571 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1572
1573 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1574 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1575 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1576
1577 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1578
1579 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1580 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1581 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1582 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1583 histograms.
1584 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1585 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1586 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1587
1588 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1589 starguider
1590
1591 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1592 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1593 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1594 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1595 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1596 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1597 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1598 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1599
1600 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1601 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1602 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1603 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1604 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1605
1606 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1607 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1608
1609
1610
1611 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1612
1613 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1614 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1615
1616 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1617 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1618 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1619
1620 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1621 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1622
1623 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1624
1625 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1626
1627 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1628 after 6.3.2006
1629
1630 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1631 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1632 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1633 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1634
1635 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1636 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1637 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1638 Recommended parameters:
1639 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1640 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1641 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1642 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1643
1644 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1645 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1646 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1647 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1648 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1649 time-scale) are missing.
1650
1651 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1652 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1653 people for weak sources.
1654
1655 - macros: plotdb.C:
1656 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1657 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1658 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1659 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1660
1661 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1662 the optimization became a lot faster
1663
1664 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1665 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1666
1667 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1668 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1669 initialization of the starguider calibration
1670
1671 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1672 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1673 resource file using:
1674 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1675 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1676
1677 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1678 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1679 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1680
1681 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1682 trigger (including the software trigger)
1683
1684 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1685 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1686 a defined energy:
1687 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1688
1689 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1690 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1691
1692
1693
1694 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1695
1696 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1697 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1698
1699 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1700 to plot statistics about the data processing
1701
1702 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1703 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1704
1705 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1706
1707 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1708 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1709 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1710 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1711
1712 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1713 different values for different periods
1714
1715 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1716 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1717 effective on-time)
1718
1719 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1720 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1721 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1722 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1723 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1724
1725 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1726
1727 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1728 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1729 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1730 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1731 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1732 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1733
1734 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1735 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1736
1737 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1738
1739 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1740 to 0.06
1741
1742 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1743 resource file.
1744 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1745
1746 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1747 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1748 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1749 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1750 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1751
1752 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1753 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1754
1755 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1756 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1757 on-data.
1758
1759
1760
1761 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1762
1763 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1764 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1765
1766 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1767 are now possible:
1768 showlog callisto 55599
1769 showplot signal 55599
1770 star 55599
1771 callisto 55999
1772 ganymed 2
1773 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1774 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1775 paths ("/magic/*")
1776
1777 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1778 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1779
1780 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1781 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1782
1783 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1784 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1785 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1786 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1787
1788 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1789 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1790 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1791 forest.
1792
1793 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1794 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1795 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1796
1797 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1798 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1799
1800 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1801 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1802
1803 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1804 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1805 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1806 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1807 size ratio.
1808
1809 - RanForest:
1810 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1811 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1812 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1813 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1814 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1815 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1816 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1817 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1818
1819 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1820 the events to be displayed, eg:
1821 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1822 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1823 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1824
1825 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1826 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1827 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1828 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1829 written to the CC tree.
1830
1831 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1832 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1833 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1834 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1835 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1836 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1837
1838 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1839 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1840 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1841 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1842
1843 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1844 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1845 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1846
1847 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1848 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1849
1850 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1851 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1852 --ins=/magic/sequences
1853 and where to search for the image data
1854 --ind=/magic/data/star
1855
1856 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1857 dx/dy from the resource file by
1858 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1859 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1860
1861 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1862 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1863 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1864 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1865 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1866 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1867
1868 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1869 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1870 for on-only analysis'
1871
1872 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1873 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1874
1875 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1876
1877 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1878 they are commonly used.
1879
1880 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1881 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1882
1883
1884
1885 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1886
1887 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1888 how to calculate the threshold
1889
1890 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1891 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1892 and MagicReversi)
1893
1894 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1895
1896 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1897
1898 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1899 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1900
1901 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1902 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1903 automatic processing
1904
1905 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1906 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1907 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1908 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1909 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1910 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1911
1912 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1913 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1914 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1915 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1916 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1917 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1918 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1919 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1920 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
1921 be supressed.
1922
1923 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
1924 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
1925 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
1926 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
1927 algorithm)
1928
1929 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
1930 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
1931 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
1932 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
1933 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
1934 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
1935 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
1936
1937 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
1938 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
1939 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
1940 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
1941 understood.
1942
1943 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
1944 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
1945 are sorted by their sequence number.
1946
1947 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
1948
1949 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
1950
1951
1952
1953 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
1954
1955 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
1956 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
1957 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
1958 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
1959
1960 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
1961 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
1962 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
1963
1964 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
1965 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
1966
1967
1968
1969 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
1970
1971 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
1972 MC binning
1973
1974 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
1975 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
1976
1977 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
1978
1979 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
1980
1981 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
1982
1983 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
1984
1985 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
1986 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
1987
1988 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
1989 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
1990 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
1991 of the subsystem data
1992
1993 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1994 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1995
1996 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1997 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1998
1999 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
2000
2001 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
2002
2003 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
2004
2005 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
2006
2007 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
2008 argument
2009
2010 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
2011 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
2012 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
2013 (MCameraHV).
2014
2015 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
2016 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
2017
2018 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
2019 menu, eg in the TBrowser
2020
2021 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
2022 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
2023 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2024 This is important mainly for timing studies.
2025
2026 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
2027 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
2028 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
2029 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
2030 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
2031 Introduced new limits:
2032 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
2033 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
2034 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
2035
2036 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
2037 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
2038 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
2039
2040 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
2041 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
2042
2043 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
2044 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
2045 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
2046 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
2047 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
2048 to make the distribution reliable.
2049
2050 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
2051 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
2052 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
2053 saturated and produced wrong limits.
2054
2055 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
2056 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
2057 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
2058 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
2059 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
2060
2061 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
2062 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
2063 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
2064 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
2065 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
2066 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
2067 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
2068 a good precision is needed.
2069
2070 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
2071 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
2072
2073 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
2074 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
2075 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
2076 changes.
2077
2078 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
2079 as calculated by MPedestalY2
2080
2081 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
2082 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
2083 calculated from interleaved events
2084
2085 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
2086 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
2087 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
2088 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
2089 task
2090
2091 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
2092
2093 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
2094 DC currents
2095
2096 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
2097 Pedestal Rms
2098
2099 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
2100
2101 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
2102 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
2103 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
2104 became pedestal rms dependant
2105
2106 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
2107 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
2108
2109 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
2110 May/April 05
2111
2112 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
2113 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
2114
2115 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
2116
2117 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
2118
2119 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
2120 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
2121 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
2122
2123 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
2124
2125 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
2126 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
2127 sqrt(2) to large
2128
2129 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
2130 and a background model determined in the first loop is
2131 subtracted
2132
2133 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
2134 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
2135 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
2136
2137 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
2138 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
2139 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
2140
2141 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
2142 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
2143 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
2144
2145 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
2146 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
2147 it off add
2148 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
2149 to your ganymed.rc
2150
2151 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
2152 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
2153 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
2154
2155 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
2156
2157
2158
2159 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
2160
2161 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
2162 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
2163
2164 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
2165 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
2166 before any other tree.
2167
2168 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
2169 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
2170 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
2171 correctly.
2172
2173 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
2174
2175 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
2176 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
2177 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
2178 the run stored in the runheader.
2179
2180 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
2181 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
2182 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2183
2184 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2185 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
2186 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
2187
2188 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
2189 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
2190 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
2191 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
2192
2193 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
2194 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
2195
2196 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
2197 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
2198 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
2199 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
2200 is fixed to 1
2201
2202 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
2203 more accurate now
2204
2205 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
2206 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
2207 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
2208
2209 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
2210
2211 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
2212 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
2213 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
2214
2215 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2216 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
2217
2218 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
2219 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
2220
2221 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
2222 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
2223
2224 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
2225 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
2226 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
2227 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
2228
2229 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
2230 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
2231 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
2232 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
2233 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
2234 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
2235 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
2236 the calibration constants by
2237 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2238 and
2239 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
2240 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
2241 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
2242 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
2243 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2244
2245 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
2246 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
2247 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
2248 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
2249
2250 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
2251 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
2252
2253 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
2254 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
2255 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
2256 NameHistFS: MHDisp
2257 For details about the requirements of these plots look
2258 at the corresponding classes
2259
2260 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
2261 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
2262 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
2263 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
2264 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
2265 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
2266 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
2267
2268 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
2269 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
2270 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
2271
2272 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
2273 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
2274 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
2275 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
2276 normalization is normally wrong.
2277
2278
2279
2280 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
2281
2282 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
2283 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
2284
2285 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
2286 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
2287
2288 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
2289 because ProcessFile is missleading
2290
2291 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
2292
2293 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
2294 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
2295 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
2296
2297 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
2298 versions newer than V200404070
2299
2300 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
2301 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
2302 (MCameraCentralPixel)
2303
2304 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
2305 (MHVsSize)
2306
2307 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
2308
2309 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
2310 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
2311 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
2312 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
2313 can be canged
2314
2315 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
2316 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
2317 using showlog.
2318
2319 - showplot: improved
2320 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
2321 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
2322 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
2323 the printing command from the command line you can use all
2324 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
2325 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
2326 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
2327 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
2328
2329 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
2330 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
2331 intensity has been updated in some cases)
2332
2333 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
2334 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
2335 been taken with Pin Diode.
2336
2337 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
2338 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
2339
2340 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
2341 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
2342
2343 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
2344 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
2345 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
2346 of the cosmisc
2347
2348 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
2349 from 2.5 to 4.5
2350
2351 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
2352 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
2353 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
2354 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
2355
2356 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
2357 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
2358 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
2359 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
2360 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
2361 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
2362 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
2363 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
2364 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
2365 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
2366 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
2367 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
2368 they are a lot slower)
2369 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
2370 random memory access it might by completely random!
2371
2372 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
2373 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
2374 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
2375
2376 - callisto:
2377 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
2378 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
2379 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
2380 Default: -9.0 +4.5
2381 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
2382
2383 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
2384 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
2385
2386 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
2387 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
2388 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
2389 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
2390 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
2391 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
2392 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
2393 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
2394
2395 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
2396 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
2397
2398 - callisto: for the common extractors
2399 + MExtractFixedWindow
2400 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
2401 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
2402 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2403 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
2404 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
2405
2406 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
2407 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
2408 hilocalib_df6.root
2409
2410 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
2411 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
2412 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
2413
2414 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
2415 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
2416 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
2417 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
2418 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
2419 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
2420 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
2421
2422 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
2423 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
2424 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
2425 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
2426 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
2427 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
2428
2429 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
2430
2431 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
2432 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
2433
2434 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
2435 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
2436 changed only minimally
2437
2438 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2439 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2440 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2441
2442 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2443 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2444 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2445 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2446
2447 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2448 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2449
2450
2451
2452 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2453
2454 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2455 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2456 by 0.2 slices)
2457
2458 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2459 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2460
2461 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2462 also done with a intercalibration input file
2463
2464 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2465
2466 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2467
2468 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2469
2470 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2471
2472 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2473
2474 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2475
2476 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2477
2478 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2479 which is more than 5 times the variance
2480
2481 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2482
2483 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2484 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2485
2486 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2487 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2488
2489 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2490 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2491
2492 - update the reference lines for the december data
2493
2494 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2495 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2496 pulse position changes much.
2497
2498 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2499 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2500 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2501
2502 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2503 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2504 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2505 runs a lot.
2506
2507 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2508 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2509
2510 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2511 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2512 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2513 than with old versions (wrong units))
2514
2515 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2516 formats are still unsupported by root)
2517
2518 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2519 for automatic processing
2520
2521
2522
2523 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2524
2525 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2526 decided by the Collaboration Board
2527
2528 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2529
2530 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2531
2532 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2533 and applied in callisto.
2534
2535 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2536
2537 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2538
2539 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2540 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2541
2542 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2543 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2544
2545 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2546 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2547 energy (Size) events.
2548
2549 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2550
2551 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2552 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2553
2554 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2555 (MHexagonalFT)
2556
2557 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2558 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2559
2560 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2561 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2562 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2563
2564 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2565
2566 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2567
2568 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2569 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2570
2571 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2572
2573 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2574 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2575 the slices by statistics
2576 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2577 signal extractor without randomization
2578 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2579 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2580 randomly fixed)
2581 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2582 long as nobody really needs it:
2583 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2584 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2585
2586 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2587
2588 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2589 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2590 roughly 0.5%
2591
2592 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2593 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2594 batch mode possible:
2595 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2596
2597 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2598 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2599
2600 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2601 camera files.
2602
2603 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2604
2605 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2606 accurate now
2607
2608 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2609 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2610 * the new implementation is faster and
2611 * needs less storage space
2612
2613 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2614 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2615
2616 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2617 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2618
2619 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2620
2621 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2622
2623
2624
2625 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2626
2627 - New combined signal and time extractor
2628 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2629
2630 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2631 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2632
2633 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2634
2635 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2636 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2637 more): showlog
2638
2639 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2640 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2641
2642 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2643 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2644 source
2645
2646 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2647 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2648
2649 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2650
2651 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2652 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2653
2654 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2655 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2656
2657 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2658 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2659 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2660
2661 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2662 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2663
2664 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2665 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2666
2667 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2668 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2669
2670 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2671 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2672 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2673
2674 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2675 version 4)
2676
2677 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2678 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2679
2680 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2681 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2682 a resource file: star.rc
2683
2684 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2685 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2686
2687 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2688 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2689
2690 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2691 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2692 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2693
2694 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2695 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2696 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2697 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2698
2699 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2700 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2701 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2702
2703 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2704 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2705 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2706
2707
2708
2709 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2710
2711 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2712 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2713
2714 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2715
2716 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2717
2718 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2719
2720 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2721
2722 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2723 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2724 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2725
2726 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2727
2728 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2729 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2730 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2731
2732 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2733 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2734
2735 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2736
2737 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2738
2739
2740
2741 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2742
2743 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2744 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2745
2746 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2747 ("pow(a, b)")
2748
2749 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2750 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2751
2752 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2753 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2754
2755 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2756 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2757 is implemented through the new virtual function
2758 MParContainer::SetVariables
2759
2760 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2761 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2762
2763 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2764 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2765
2766 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2767 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2768
2769 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2770 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2771 and will replace them.
2772
2773 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2774
2775 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2776 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2777 slices in the maximum window
2778
2779 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2780 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2781 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2782 studies.
2783
2784 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2785 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2786 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2787 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2788
2789 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2790 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2791
2792 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2793 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2794 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2795 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2796 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2797 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2798
2799 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2800 macro pedphotcalc.C
2801
2802 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2803
2804 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2805
2806 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2807 minimizations
2808
2809 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2810 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2811
2812 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2813
2814 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2815 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2816 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2817
2818 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2819 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2820
2821 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2822 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2823
2824 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2825
2826 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2827
2828 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2829
2830 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2831
2832 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2833
2834 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2835 + MJPedestals
2836 + MJCalibration
2837 + MJExtractSignal
2838 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2839
2840 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2841
2842 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2843 the evolution of a sector vs time
2844
2845
2846
2847 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2848
2849 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2850 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2851 camera version 0.7.
2852
2853 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2854 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2855
2856 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2857
2858 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2859 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2860 be done soon.
2861
2862 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2863 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2864
2865 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2866 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2867 of time (readrep.C)
2868
2869 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2870 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2871 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2872
2873 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2874 + Events --> Events
2875 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2876 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2877
2878 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2879
2880 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2881
2882 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2883 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2884
2885 - added classes to calculate event rate
2886 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2887
2888 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2889
2890 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2891
2892 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2893 the new 'Synchonizer'
2894
2895
2896
2897 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2898
2899 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2900 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2901 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2902
2903 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2904 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2905 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2906
2907 - added a new executable star which implements the
2908 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2909 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2910
2911 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2912 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2913 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2914
2915 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2916 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2917
2918 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2919
2920
2921
2922 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
2923
2924 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
2925 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
2926 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
2927 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
2928
2929 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
2930 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
2931
2932 - added pedestal calculation
2933
2934 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
2935 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
2936
2937 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
2938
2939 - added basic routines to apply padding
2940
2941 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
2942 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
2943
2944 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
2945 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
2946
2947 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
2948 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
2949
2950 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
2951 at all)
2952
2953 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
2954 ignore files
2955
2956 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
2957 to simulate the PMT camera
2958
2959 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
2960 programs in the MC chain.
2961
2962 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
2963 parameter in an eventloop.
2964
2965 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
2966 location (Long, Lat, etc)
2967
2968 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
2969
2970 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
2971 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
2972
2973 - added a new status display which can show the present status
2974 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
2975 an example can be found at status.C)
2976
2977 - reorganized directories:
2978 classes describing the image --> mimage
2979 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
2980 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
2981
2982 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
2983
2984 - colors in logging output to screen
2985
2986 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
2987 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
2988 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
2989 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
2990 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
2991
2992 - reading of reflector files
2993
2994 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2995
2996 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2997
2998 - logarithmic scale in camera
2999
3000 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
3001
3002
3003
3004 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
3005
3006 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
3007
3008 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
3009 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
3010 missing a single NN)
3011
3012 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
3013 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
3014 have any neighbour)
3015
3016 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
3017 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
3018 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
3019 please ask Abelardo)
3020
3021 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
3022 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
3023
3024 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
3025
3026 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
3027 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
3028 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
3029 changed.
3030
3031 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
3032 (MHMatrix)
3033
3034 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
3035 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
3036
3037 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
3038 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
3039
3040 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
3041 event display gui.
3042
3043 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
3044
3045 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
3046
3047 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
3048
3049 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
3050 to MHillas
3051
3052 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
3053
3054 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
3055
3056 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
3057
3058 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
3059
3060 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
3061 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
3062 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
3063
3064 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
3065
3066 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
3067 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
3068
3069 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
3070 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
3071 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
3072 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
3073 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
3074
3075 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
3076 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
3077
3078 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
3079 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
3080
3081 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
3082 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
3083
3084 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
3085
3086 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
3087
3088 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
3089 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
3090
3091 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
3092 (thanks to Raquel)
3093
3094 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
3095 estfit.C) using a parametrization
3096
3097 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
3098 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
3099 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
3100
3101
3102
3103 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
3104
3105 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
3106 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
3107 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
3108 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
3109
3110 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
3111 for the collection area calculation
3112
3113 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
3114 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
3115
3116 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
3117 of one container
3118
3119 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
3120 ascii file
3121
3122 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
3123 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
3124 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
3125 hillas parameters)
3126
3127 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
3128 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
3129 see MHillas and MHillasExt
3130
3131 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
3132 see MHillasSrc
3133
3134 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
3135 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
3136 all histograms)
3137
3138 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
3139
3140 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
3141
3142 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
3143
3144 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
3145 an output stream instead of the whole container only
3146
3147 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
3148 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
3149
3150 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
3151 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
3152
3153 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
3154 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
3155
3156 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
3157
3158 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
3159 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
3160 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
3161
3162 - Added:
3163 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
3164 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
3165 they are needed in the flux calculation in
3166 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
3167 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
3168 of Theta and the true energy
3169
3170 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
3171 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
3172 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
3173 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
3174 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
3175 by unfolding
3176
3177 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
3178
3179
3180
3181 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
3182
3183 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
3184 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
3185 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
3186
3187 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
3188
3189 - Introduced verbosity levels
3190
3191 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
3192
3193 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
3194 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
3195
3196 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
3197 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
3198
3199 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
3200
3201 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
3202
3203 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
3204 of a parameter container for each event
3205
3206 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
3207
3208 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
3209
3210 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
3211 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
3212 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
3213
3214 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
3215 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
3216 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
3217
3218
3219
3220 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
3221
3222 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
3223
3224 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
3225 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
3226
3227 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
3228 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
3229 states
3230
3231 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
3232 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
3233
3234 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
3235
3236 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
3237 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
3238
3239 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
3240 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
3241
3242 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
3243 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
3244 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
3245
3246 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
3247 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
3248
3249 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
3250 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
3251
3252 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
3253 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
3254
3255
3256
3257 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
3258
3259 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
3260
3261 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
3262
3263 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
3264
3265 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
3266
3267 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
3268
3269 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
3270
3271 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
3272
3273 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
3274
3275 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
3276 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
3277
3278
3279
3280 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
3281
3282 - Many demo macros added
3283
3284 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
3285
3286 - Hillas Calculation added
3287
3288 - Standard image cleaning available
3289
3290 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
3291 (Remark: of the same structure)
3292
3293 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
3294 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
3295 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
3296
3297
3298
3299 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
3300
3301 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
3302 gui with the command mars.
3303
3304
3305
3306 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
3307
3308 - First official release 0.1
3309
3310 - Changes:
3311
3312 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
3313 while-loop
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