source: trunk/MagicSoft/Mars/NEWS@ 1999

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1 -*-*- END -*-*-
2
3 *** Version 0.9
4
5 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
6 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
7
8 - added pedestal calculation
9
10 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
11 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
12
13 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
14
15 - added basic routines to apply padding
16
17 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
18 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
19
20 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
21 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
22
23 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
24 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
25
26 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
27 at all)
28
29 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
30 ignore files
31
32 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
33 to simulate the PMT camera
34
35 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
36 programs in the MC chain.
37
38 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
39 parameter in an eventloop.
40
41 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
42 location (Long, Lat, etc)
43
44 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
45
46 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02)
47
48 - added a new status display which can show the present status
49 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
50 an example can be found at status.C)
51
52 - reorganized directories:
53 classes describing the image --> mimage
54 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
55
56 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
57
58
59
60 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
61
62 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
63
64 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
65 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
66 missing a single NN)
67
68 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
69 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
70 have any neighbour)
71
72 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
73 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
74 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
75 please ask Abelardo)
76
77 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
78 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
79
80 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
81
82 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
83 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
84 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
85 changed.
86
87 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
88 (MHMatrix)
89
90 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
91 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
92
93 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
94 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
95
96 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
97 event display gui.
98
99 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
100
101 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
102
103 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
104
105 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
106 to MHillas
107
108 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
109
110 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
111
112 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
113
114 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
115
116 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
117 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
118 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
119
120 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
121
122 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
123 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
124
125 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
126 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
127 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
128 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
129 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
130
131 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
132 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
133
134 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
135 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
136
137 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
138 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
139
140 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
141
142 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
143
144 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
145 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
146
147 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
148 (thanks to Raquel)
149
150 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
151 estfit.C) using a parametrization
152
153 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
154 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
155 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
156
157
158
159 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
160
161 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
162 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
163 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
164 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
165
166 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
167 for the collection area calculation
168
169 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
170 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
171
172 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
173 of one container
174
175 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
176 ascii file
177
178 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
179 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
180 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
181 hillas parameters)
182
183 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
184 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
185 see MHillas and MHillasExt
186
187 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
188 see MHillasSrc
189
190 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
191 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
192 all histograms)
193
194 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
195
196 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
197
198 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
199
200 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
201 an output stream instead of the whole container only
202
203 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
204 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
205
206 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
207 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
208
209 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
210 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
211
212 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
213
214 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
215 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
216 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
217
218 - Added:
219 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
220 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
221 they are needed in the flux calculation in
222 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
223 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
224 of Theta and the true energy
225
226 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
227 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
228 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
229 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
230 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
231 by unfolding
232
233 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
234
235
236
237 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
238
239 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
240 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
241 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
242
243 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
244
245 - Introduced verbosity levels
246
247 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
248
249 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
250 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
251
252 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
253 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
254
255 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
256
257 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
258
259 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
260 of a parameter container for each event
261
262 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
263
264 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
265
266 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
267 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
268 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
269
270 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
271 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
272 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
273
274
275
276 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
277
278 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
279
280 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
281 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
282
283 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
284 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
285 states
286
287 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
288 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
289
290 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
291
292 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
293 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
294
295 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
296 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
297
298 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
299 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
300 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
301
302 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
303 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
304
305 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
306 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
307
308 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
309 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
310
311
312
313 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
314
315 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
316
317 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
318
319 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
320
321 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
322
323 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
324
325 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
326
327 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
328
329 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
330
331 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
332 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
333
334
335
336 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
337
338 - Many demo macros added
339
340 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
341
342 - Hillas Calculation added
343
344 - Standard image cleaning available
345
346 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
347 (Remark: of the same structure)
348
349 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
350 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
351 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
352
353
354
355 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
356
357 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
358 gui with the command mars.
359
360
361
362 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
363
364 - First official release 0.1
365
366 - Changes:
367
368 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
369 while-loop
370
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