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2
3 *** Version 0.9
4
5 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
6 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
7 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
8 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
9
10 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
11 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
12
13 - added pedestal calculation
14
15 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
16 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
17
18 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
19
20 - added basic routines to apply padding
21
22 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
23 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
24
25 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
26 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
27
28 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
29 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
30
31 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
32 at all)
33
34 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
35 ignore files
36
37 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
38 to simulate the PMT camera
39
40 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
41 programs in the MC chain.
42
43 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
44 parameter in an eventloop.
45
46 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
47 location (Long, Lat, etc)
48
49 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
50
51 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02)
52 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
53
54 - added a new status display which can show the present status
55 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
56 an example can be found at status.C)
57
58 - reorganized directories:
59 classes describing the image --> mimage
60 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
61 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
62
63 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
64
65 - colors in logging output to screen
66
67 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
68 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
69 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
70 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
71 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
72
73 - reading of reflector files
74
75 - display data from reflector files in the camera
76
77 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
78
79 - logarithmic scale in camera
80
81
82
83 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
84
85 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
86
87 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
88 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
89 missing a single NN)
90
91 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
92 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
93 have any neighbour)
94
95 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
96 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
97 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
98 please ask Abelardo)
99
100 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
101 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
102
103 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
104
105 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
106 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
107 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
108 changed.
109
110 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
111 (MHMatrix)
112
113 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
114 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
115
116 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
117 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
118
119 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
120 event display gui.
121
122 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
123
124 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
125
126 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
127
128 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
129 to MHillas
130
131 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
132
133 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
134
135 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
136
137 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
138
139 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
140 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
141 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
142
143 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
144
145 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
146 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
147
148 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
149 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
150 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
151 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
152 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
153
154 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
155 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
156
157 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
158 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
159
160 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
161 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
162
163 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
164
165 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
166
167 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
168 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
169
170 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
171 (thanks to Raquel)
172
173 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
174 estfit.C) using a parametrization
175
176 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
177 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
178 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
179
180
181
182 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
183
184 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
185 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
186 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
187 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
188
189 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
190 for the collection area calculation
191
192 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
193 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
194
195 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
196 of one container
197
198 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
199 ascii file
200
201 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
202 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
203 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
204 hillas parameters)
205
206 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
207 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
208 see MHillas and MHillasExt
209
210 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
211 see MHillasSrc
212
213 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
214 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
215 all histograms)
216
217 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
218
219 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
220
221 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
222
223 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
224 an output stream instead of the whole container only
225
226 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
227 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
228
229 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
230 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
231
232 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
233 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
234
235 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
236
237 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
238 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
239 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
240
241 - Added:
242 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
243 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
244 they are needed in the flux calculation in
245 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
246 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
247 of Theta and the true energy
248
249 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
250 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
251 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
252 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
253 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
254 by unfolding
255
256 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
257
258
259
260 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
261
262 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
263 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
264 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
265
266 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
267
268 - Introduced verbosity levels
269
270 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
271
272 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
273 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
274
275 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
276 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
277
278 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
279
280 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
281
282 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
283 of a parameter container for each event
284
285 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
286
287 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
288
289 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
290 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
291 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
292
293 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
294 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
295 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
296
297
298
299 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
300
301 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
302
303 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
304 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
305
306 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
307 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
308 states
309
310 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
311 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
312
313 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
314
315 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
316 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
317
318 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
319 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
320
321 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
322 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
323 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
324
325 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
326 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
327
328 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
329 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
330
331 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
332 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
333
334
335
336 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
337
338 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
339
340 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
341
342 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
343
344 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
345
346 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
347
348 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
349
350 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
351
352 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
353
354 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
355 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
356
357
358
359 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
360
361 - Many demo macros added
362
363 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
364
365 - Hillas Calculation added
366
367 - Standard image cleaning available
368
369 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
370 (Remark: of the same structure)
371
372 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
373 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
374 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
375
376
377
378 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
379
380 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
381 gui with the command mars.
382
383
384
385 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
386
387 - First official release 0.1
388
389 - Changes:
390
391 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
392 while-loop
393
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