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3 *** Version 0.9
4
5 - added pedestal calculation
6
7 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (cut value proportional to square
8 root of pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
9
10 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
11
12 - added basic routines to apply padding
13
14 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
15 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
16
17 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
18 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
19
20 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
21 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
22
23 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
24 at all)
25
26 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
27 ignore files
28
29 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
30 to simulate the PMT camera
31
32 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
33 programs in the MC chain.
34
35 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
36 parameter in an eventloop.
37
38 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
39 location (Long, Lat, etc)
40
41 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
42
43
44
45 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
46
47 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
48
49 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
50 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
51 missing a single NN)
52
53 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
54 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
55 have any neighbour)
56
57 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
58 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
59 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
60 please ask Abelardo)
61
62 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
63 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
64
65 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
66
67 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
68 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
69 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
70 changed.
71
72 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
73 (MHMatrix)
74
75 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
76 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
77
78 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
79 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
80
81 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
82 event display gui.
83
84 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
85
86 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
87
88 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
89
90 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
91 to MHillas
92
93 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
94
95 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
96
97 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
98
99 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
100
101 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
102 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
103 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
104
105 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
106
107 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
108 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
109
110 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
111 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
112 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
113 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
114 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
115
116 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
117 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
118
119 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
120 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
121
122 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
123 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
124
125 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
126
127 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
128
129 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
130 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
131
132 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
133 (thanks to Raquel)
134
135 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
136 estfit.C) using a parametrization
137
138 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
139 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
140 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
141
142
143
144 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
145
146 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
147 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
148 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
149 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
150
151 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
152 for the collection area calculation
153
154 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
155 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
156
157 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
158 of one container
159
160 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
161 ascii file
162
163 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
164 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
165 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
166 hillas parameters)
167
168 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
169 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
170 see MHillas and MHillasExt
171
172 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
173 see MHillasSrc
174
175 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
176 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
177 all histograms)
178
179 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
180
181 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
182
183 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
184
185 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
186 an output stream instead of the whole container only
187
188 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
189 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
190
191 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
192 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
193
194 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
195 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
196
197 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
198
199 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
200 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
201 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
202
203 - Added:
204 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
205 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
206 they are needed in the flux calculation in
207 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
208 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
209 of Theta and the true energy
210
211 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
212 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
213 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
214 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
215 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
216 by unfolding
217
218 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
219
220
221
222 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
223
224 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
225 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
226 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
227
228 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
229
230 - Introduced verbosity levels
231
232 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
233
234 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
235 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
236
237 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
238 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
239
240 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
241
242 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
243
244 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
245 of a parameter container for each event
246
247 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
248
249 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
250
251 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
252 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
253 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
254
255 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
256 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
257 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
258
259
260
261 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
262
263 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
264
265 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
266 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
267
268 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
269 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
270 states
271
272 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
273 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
274
275 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
276
277 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
278 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
279
280 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
281 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
282
283 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
284 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
285 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
286
287 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
288 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
289
290 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
291 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
292
293 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
294 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
295
296
297
298 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
299
300 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
301
302 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
303
304 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
305
306 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
307
308 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
309
310 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
311
312 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
313
314 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
315
316 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
317 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
318
319
320
321 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
322
323 - Many demo macros added
324
325 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
326
327 - Hillas Calculation added
328
329 - Standard image cleaning available
330
331 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
332 (Remark: of the same structure)
333
334 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
335 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
336 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
337
338
339
340 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
341
342 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
343 gui with the command mars.
344
345
346
347 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
348
349 - First official release 0.1
350
351 - Changes:
352
353 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
354 while-loop
355
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