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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
5 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
6 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
7 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
8 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc)
9
10
11
12 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
13
14 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
15 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
16 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
17 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
18
19 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
20 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
21
22 - added pedestal calculation
23
24 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
25 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
26
27 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
28
29 - added basic routines to apply padding
30
31 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
32 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
33
34 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
35 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
36
37 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
38 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
39
40 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
41 at all)
42
43 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
44 ignore files
45
46 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
47 to simulate the PMT camera
48
49 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
50 programs in the MC chain.
51
52 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
53 parameter in an eventloop.
54
55 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
56 location (Long, Lat, etc)
57
58 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
59
60 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
61 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
62
63 - added a new status display which can show the present status
64 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
65 an example can be found at status.C)
66
67 - reorganized directories:
68 classes describing the image --> mimage
69 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
70 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
71
72 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
73
74 - colors in logging output to screen
75
76 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
77 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
78 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
79 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
80 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
81
82 - reading of reflector files
83
84 - display data from reflector files in the camera
85
86 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
87
88 - logarithmic scale in camera
89
90 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
91
92
93
94 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
95
96 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
97
98 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
99 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
100 missing a single NN)
101
102 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
103 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
104 have any neighbour)
105
106 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
107 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
108 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
109 please ask Abelardo)
110
111 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
112 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
113
114 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
115
116 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
117 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
118 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
119 changed.
120
121 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
122 (MHMatrix)
123
124 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
125 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
126
127 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
128 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
129
130 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
131 event display gui.
132
133 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
134
135 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
136
137 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
138
139 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
140 to MHillas
141
142 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
143
144 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
145
146 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
147
148 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
149
150 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
151 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
152 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
153
154 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
155
156 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
157 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
158
159 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
160 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
161 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
162 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
163 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
164
165 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
166 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
167
168 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
169 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
170
171 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
172 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
173
174 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
175
176 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
177
178 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
179 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
180
181 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
182 (thanks to Raquel)
183
184 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
185 estfit.C) using a parametrization
186
187 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
188 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
189 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
190
191
192
193 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
194
195 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
196 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
197 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
198 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
199
200 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
201 for the collection area calculation
202
203 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
204 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
205
206 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
207 of one container
208
209 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
210 ascii file
211
212 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
213 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
214 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
215 hillas parameters)
216
217 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
218 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
219 see MHillas and MHillasExt
220
221 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
222 see MHillasSrc
223
224 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
225 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
226 all histograms)
227
228 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
229
230 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
231
232 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
233
234 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
235 an output stream instead of the whole container only
236
237 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
238 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
239
240 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
241 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
242
243 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
244 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
245
246 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
247
248 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
249 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
250 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
251
252 - Added:
253 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
254 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
255 they are needed in the flux calculation in
256 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
257 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
258 of Theta and the true energy
259
260 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
261 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
262 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
263 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
264 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
265 by unfolding
266
267 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
268
269
270
271 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
272
273 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
274 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
275 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
276
277 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
278
279 - Introduced verbosity levels
280
281 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
282
283 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
284 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
285
286 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
287 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
288
289 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
290
291 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
292
293 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
294 of a parameter container for each event
295
296 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
297
298 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
299
300 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
301 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
302 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
303
304 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
305 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
306 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
307
308
309
310 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
311
312 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
313
314 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
315 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
316
317 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
318 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
319 states
320
321 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
322 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
323
324 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
325
326 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
327 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
328
329 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
330 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
331
332 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
333 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
334 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
335
336 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
337 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
338
339 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
340 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
341
342 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
343 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
344
345
346
347 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
348
349 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
350
351 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
352
353 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
354
355 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
356
357 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
358
359 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
360
361 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
362
363 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
364
365 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
366 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
367
368
369
370 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
371
372 - Many demo macros added
373
374 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
375
376 - Hillas Calculation added
377
378 - Standard image cleaning available
379
380 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
381 (Remark: of the same structure)
382
383 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
384 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
385 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
386
387
388
389 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
390
391 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
392 gui with the command mars.
393
394
395
396 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
397
398 - First official release 0.1
399
400 - Changes:
401
402 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
403 while-loop
404
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