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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 - implemented reading of reflector files
69
70 - implemented displaying data from reflectro files in the camera
71
72
73
74 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
75
76 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
77
78 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
79 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
80 missing a single NN)
81
82 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
83 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
84 have any neighbour)
85
86 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
87 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
88 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
89 please ask Abelardo)
90
91 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
92 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
93
94 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
95
96 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
97 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
98 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
99 changed.
100
101 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
102 (MHMatrix)
103
104 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
105 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
106
107 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
108 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
109
110 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
111 event display gui.
112
113 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
114
115 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
116
117 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
118
119 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
120 to MHillas
121
122 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
123
124 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
125
126 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
127
128 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
129
130 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
131 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
132 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
133
134 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
135
136 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
137 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
138
139 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
140 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
141 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
142 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
143 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
144
145 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
146 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
147
148 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
149 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
150
151 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
152 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
153
154 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
155
156 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
157
158 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
159 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
160
161 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
162 (thanks to Raquel)
163
164 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
165 estfit.C) using a parametrization
166
167 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
168 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
169 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
170
171
172
173 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
174
175 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
176 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
177 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
178 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
179
180 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
181 for the collection area calculation
182
183 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
184 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
185
186 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
187 of one container
188
189 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
190 ascii file
191
192 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
193 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
194 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
195 hillas parameters)
196
197 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
198 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
199 see MHillas and MHillasExt
200
201 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
202 see MHillasSrc
203
204 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
205 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
206 all histograms)
207
208 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
209
210 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
211
212 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
213
214 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
215 an output stream instead of the whole container only
216
217 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
218 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
219
220 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
221 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
222
223 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
224 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
225
226 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
227
228 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
229 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
230 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
231
232 - Added:
233 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
234 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
235 they are needed in the flux calculation in
236 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
237 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
238 of Theta and the true energy
239
240 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
241 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
242 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
243 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
244 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
245 by unfolding
246
247 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
248
249
250
251 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
252
253 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
254 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
255 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
256
257 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
258
259 - Introduced verbosity levels
260
261 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
262
263 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
264 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
265
266 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
267 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
268
269 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
270
271 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
272
273 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
274 of a parameter container for each event
275
276 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
277
278 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
279
280 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
281 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
282 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
283
284 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
285 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
286 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
287
288
289
290 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
291
292 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
293
294 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
295 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
296
297 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
298 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
299 states
300
301 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
302 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
303
304 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
305
306 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
307 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
308
309 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
310 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
311
312 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
313 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
314 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
315
316 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
317 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
318
319 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
320 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
321
322 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
323 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
324
325
326
327 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
328
329 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
330
331 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
332
333 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
334
335 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
336
337 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
338
339 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
340
341 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
342
343 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
344
345 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
346 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
347
348
349
350 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
351
352 - Many demo macros added
353
354 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
355
356 - Hillas Calculation added
357
358 - Standard image cleaning available
359
360 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
361 (Remark: of the same structure)
362
363 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
364 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
365 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
366
367
368
369 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
370
371 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
372 gui with the command mars.
373
374
375
376 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
377
378 - First official release 0.1
379
380 - Changes:
381
382 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
383 while-loop
384
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