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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 - reading of reflector files
69
70 - display data from reflector files in the camera
71
72 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
73
74 - logarithmic scale in camera
75
76
77
78 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
79
80 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
81
82 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
83 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
84 missing a single NN)
85
86 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
87 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
88 have any neighbour)
89
90 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
91 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
92 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
93 please ask Abelardo)
94
95 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
96 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
97
98 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
99
100 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
101 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
102 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
103 changed.
104
105 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
106 (MHMatrix)
107
108 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
109 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
110
111 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
112 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
113
114 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
115 event display gui.
116
117 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
118
119 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
120
121 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
122
123 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
124 to MHillas
125
126 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
127
128 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
129
130 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
131
132 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
133
134 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
135 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
136 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
137
138 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
139
140 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
141 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
142
143 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
144 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
145 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
146 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
147 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
148
149 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
150 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
151
152 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
153 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
154
155 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
156 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
157
158 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
159
160 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
161
162 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
163 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
164
165 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
166 (thanks to Raquel)
167
168 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
169 estfit.C) using a parametrization
170
171 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
172 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
173 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
174
175
176
177 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
178
179 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
180 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
181 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
182 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
183
184 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
185 for the collection area calculation
186
187 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
188 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
189
190 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
191 of one container
192
193 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
194 ascii file
195
196 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
197 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
198 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
199 hillas parameters)
200
201 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
202 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
203 see MHillas and MHillasExt
204
205 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
206 see MHillasSrc
207
208 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
209 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
210 all histograms)
211
212 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
213
214 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
215
216 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
217
218 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
219 an output stream instead of the whole container only
220
221 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
222 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
223
224 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
225 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
226
227 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
228 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
229
230 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
231
232 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
233 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
234 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
235
236 - Added:
237 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
238 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
239 they are needed in the flux calculation in
240 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
241 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
242 of Theta and the true energy
243
244 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
245 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
246 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
247 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
248 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
249 by unfolding
250
251 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
252
253
254
255 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
256
257 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
258 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
259 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
260
261 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
262
263 - Introduced verbosity levels
264
265 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
266
267 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
268 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
269
270 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
271 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
272
273 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
274
275 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
276
277 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
278 of a parameter container for each event
279
280 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
281
282 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
283
284 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
285 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
286 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
287
288 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
289 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
290 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
291
292
293
294 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
295
296 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
297
298 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
299 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
300
301 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
302 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
303 states
304
305 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
306 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
307
308 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
309
310 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
311 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
312
313 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
314 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
315
316 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
317 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
318 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
319
320 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
321 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
322
323 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
324 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
325
326 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
327 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
328
329
330
331 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
332
333 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
334
335 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
336
337 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
338
339 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
340
341 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
342
343 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
344
345 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
346
347 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
348
349 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
350 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
351
352
353
354 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
355
356 - Many demo macros added
357
358 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
359
360 - Hillas Calculation added
361
362 - Standard image cleaning available
363
364 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
365 (Remark: of the same structure)
366
367 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
368 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
369 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
370
371
372
373 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
374
375 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
376 gui with the command mars.
377
378
379
380 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
381
382 - First official release 0.1
383
384 - Changes:
385
386 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
387 while-loop
388
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