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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 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02)
44
45
46
47 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
48
49 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
50
51 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
52 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
53 missing a single NN)
54
55 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
56 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
57 have any neighbour)
58
59 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
60 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
61 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
62 please ask Abelardo)
63
64 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
65 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
66
67 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
68
69 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
70 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
71 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
72 changed.
73
74 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
75 (MHMatrix)
76
77 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
78 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
79
80 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
81 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
82
83 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
84 event display gui.
85
86 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
87
88 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
89
90 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
91
92 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
93 to MHillas
94
95 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
96
97 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
98
99 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
100
101 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
102
103 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
104 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
105 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
106
107 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
108
109 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
110 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
111
112 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
113 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
114 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
115 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
116 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
117
118 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
119 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
120
121 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
122 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
123
124 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
125 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
126
127 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
128
129 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
130
131 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
132 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
133
134 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
135 (thanks to Raquel)
136
137 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
138 estfit.C) using a parametrization
139
140 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
141 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
142 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
143
144
145
146 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
147
148 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
149 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
150 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
151 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
152
153 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
154 for the collection area calculation
155
156 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
157 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
158
159 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
160 of one container
161
162 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
163 ascii file
164
165 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
166 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
167 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
168 hillas parameters)
169
170 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
171 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
172 see MHillas and MHillasExt
173
174 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
175 see MHillasSrc
176
177 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
178 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
179 all histograms)
180
181 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
182
183 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
184
185 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
186
187 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
188 an output stream instead of the whole container only
189
190 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
191 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
192
193 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
194 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
195
196 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
197 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
198
199 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
200
201 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
202 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
203 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
204
205 - Added:
206 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
207 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
208 they are needed in the flux calculation in
209 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
210 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
211 of Theta and the true energy
212
213 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
214 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
215 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
216 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
217 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
218 by unfolding
219
220 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
221
222
223
224 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
225
226 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
227 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
228 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
229
230 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
231
232 - Introduced verbosity levels
233
234 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
235
236 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
237 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
238
239 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
240 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
241
242 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
243
244 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
245
246 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
247 of a parameter container for each event
248
249 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
250
251 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
252
253 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
254 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
255 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
256
257 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
258 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
259 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
260
261
262
263 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
264
265 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
266
267 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
268 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
269
270 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
271 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
272 states
273
274 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
275 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
276
277 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
278
279 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
280 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
281
282 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
283 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
284
285 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
286 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
287 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
288
289 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
290 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
291
292 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
293 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
294
295 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
296 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
297
298
299
300 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
301
302 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
303
304 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
305
306 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
307
308 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
309
310 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
311
312 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
313
314 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
315
316 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
317
318 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
319 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
320
321
322
323 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
324
325 - Many demo macros added
326
327 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
328
329 - Hillas Calculation added
330
331 - Standard image cleaning available
332
333 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
334 (Remark: of the same structure)
335
336 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
337 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
338 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
339
340
341
342 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
343
344 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
345 gui with the command mars.
346
347
348
349 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
350
351 - First official release 0.1
352
353 - Changes:
354
355 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
356 while-loop
357
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