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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 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
48
49 - added a new status display which can show the present status
50 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
51 an example can be found at status.C)
52
53 - reorganized directories:
54 classes describing the image --> mimage
55 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
56 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
57
58 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
59
60 - colors in logging output to screen
61
62 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
63 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
64 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
65 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
66 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
67
68
69
70 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
71
72 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
73
74 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
75 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
76 missing a single NN)
77
78 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
79 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
80 have any neighbour)
81
82 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
83 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
84 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
85 please ask Abelardo)
86
87 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
88 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
89
90 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
91
92 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
93 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
94 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
95 changed.
96
97 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
98 (MHMatrix)
99
100 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
101 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
102
103 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
104 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
105
106 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
107 event display gui.
108
109 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
110
111 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
112
113 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
114
115 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
116 to MHillas
117
118 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
119
120 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
121
122 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
123
124 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
125
126 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
127 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
128 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
129
130 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
131
132 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
133 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
134
135 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
136 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
137 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
138 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
139 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
140
141 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
142 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
143
144 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
145 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
146
147 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
148 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
149
150 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
151
152 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
153
154 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
155 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
156
157 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
158 (thanks to Raquel)
159
160 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
161 estfit.C) using a parametrization
162
163 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
164 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
165 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
166
167
168
169 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
170
171 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
172 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
173 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
174 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
175
176 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
177 for the collection area calculation
178
179 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
180 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
181
182 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
183 of one container
184
185 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
186 ascii file
187
188 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
189 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
190 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
191 hillas parameters)
192
193 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
194 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
195 see MHillas and MHillasExt
196
197 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
198 see MHillasSrc
199
200 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
201 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
202 all histograms)
203
204 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
205
206 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
207
208 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
209
210 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
211 an output stream instead of the whole container only
212
213 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
214 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
215
216 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
217 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
218
219 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
220 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
221
222 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
223
224 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
225 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
226 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
227
228 - Added:
229 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
230 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
231 they are needed in the flux calculation in
232 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
233 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
234 of Theta and the true energy
235
236 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
237 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
238 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
239 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
240 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
241 by unfolding
242
243 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
244
245
246
247 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
248
249 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
250 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
251 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
252
253 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
254
255 - Introduced verbosity levels
256
257 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
258
259 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
260 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
261
262 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
263 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
264
265 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
266
267 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
268
269 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
270 of a parameter container for each event
271
272 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
273
274 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
275
276 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
277 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
278 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
279
280 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
281 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
282 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
283
284
285
286 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
287
288 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
289
290 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
291 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
292
293 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
294 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
295 states
296
297 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
298 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
299
300 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
301
302 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
303 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
304
305 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
306 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
307
308 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
309 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
310 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
311
312 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
313 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
314
315 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
316 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
317
318 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
319 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
320
321
322
323 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
324
325 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
326
327 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
328
329 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
330
331 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
332
333 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
334
335 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
336
337 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
338
339 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
340
341 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
342 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
343
344
345
346 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
347
348 - Many demo macros added
349
350 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
351
352 - Hillas Calculation added
353
354 - Standard image cleaning available
355
356 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
357 (Remark: of the same structure)
358
359 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
360 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
361 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
362
363
364
365 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
366
367 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
368 gui with the command mars.
369
370
371
372 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
373
374 - First official release 0.1
375
376 - Changes:
377
378 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
379 while-loop
380
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