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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 - added a new executable star which has implements the
10 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
11 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
12 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
13 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
14 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
15
16
17
18 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
19
20 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
21 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
22 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
23 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
24
25 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
26 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
27
28 - added pedestal calculation
29
30 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
31 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
32
33 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
34
35 - added basic routines to apply padding
36
37 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
38 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
39
40 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
41 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
42
43 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
44 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
45
46 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
47 at all)
48
49 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
50 ignore files
51
52 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
53 to simulate the PMT camera
54
55 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
56 programs in the MC chain.
57
58 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
59 parameter in an eventloop.
60
61 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
62 location (Long, Lat, etc)
63
64 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
65
66 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
67 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
68
69 - added a new status display which can show the present status
70 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
71 an example can be found at status.C)
72
73 - reorganized directories:
74 classes describing the image --> mimage
75 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
76 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
77
78 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
79
80 - colors in logging output to screen
81
82 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
83 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
84 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
85 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
86 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
87
88 - reading of reflector files
89
90 - display data from reflector files in the camera
91
92 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
93
94 - logarithmic scale in camera
95
96 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
97
98
99
100 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
101
102 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
103
104 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
105 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
106 missing a single NN)
107
108 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
109 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
110 have any neighbour)
111
112 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
113 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
114 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
115 please ask Abelardo)
116
117 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
118 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
119
120 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
121
122 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
123 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
124 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
125 changed.
126
127 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
128 (MHMatrix)
129
130 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
131 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
132
133 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
134 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
135
136 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
137 event display gui.
138
139 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
140
141 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
142
143 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
144
145 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
146 to MHillas
147
148 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
149
150 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
151
152 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
153
154 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
155
156 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
157 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
158 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
159
160 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
161
162 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
163 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
164
165 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
166 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
167 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
168 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
169 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
170
171 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
172 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
173
174 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
175 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
176
177 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
178 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
179
180 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
181
182 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
183
184 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
185 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
186
187 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
188 (thanks to Raquel)
189
190 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
191 estfit.C) using a parametrization
192
193 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
194 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
195 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
196
197
198
199 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
200
201 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
202 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
203 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
204 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
205
206 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
207 for the collection area calculation
208
209 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
210 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
211
212 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
213 of one container
214
215 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
216 ascii file
217
218 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
219 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
220 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
221 hillas parameters)
222
223 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
224 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
225 see MHillas and MHillasExt
226
227 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
228 see MHillasSrc
229
230 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
231 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
232 all histograms)
233
234 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
235
236 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
237
238 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
239
240 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
241 an output stream instead of the whole container only
242
243 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
244 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
245
246 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
247 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
248
249 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
250 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
251
252 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
253
254 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
255 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
256 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
257
258 - Added:
259 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
260 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
261 they are needed in the flux calculation in
262 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
263 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
264 of Theta and the true energy
265
266 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
267 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
268 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
269 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
270 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
271 by unfolding
272
273 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
274
275
276
277 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
278
279 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
280 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
281 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
282
283 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
284
285 - Introduced verbosity levels
286
287 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
288
289 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
290 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
291
292 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
293 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
294
295 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
296
297 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
298
299 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
300 of a parameter container for each event
301
302 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
303
304 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
305
306 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
307 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
308 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
309
310 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
311 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
312 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
313
314
315
316 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
317
318 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
319
320 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
321 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
322
323 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
324 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
325 states
326
327 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
328 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
329
330 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
331
332 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
333 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
334
335 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
336 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
337
338 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
339 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
340 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
341
342 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
343 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
344
345 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
346 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
347
348 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
349 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
350
351
352
353 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
354
355 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
356
357 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
358
359 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
360
361 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
362
363 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
364
365 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
366
367 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
368
369 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
370
371 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
372 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
373
374
375
376 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
377
378 - Many demo macros added
379
380 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
381
382 - Hillas Calculation added
383
384 - Standard image cleaning available
385
386 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
387 (Remark: of the same structure)
388
389 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
390 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
391 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
392
393
394
395 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
396
397 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
398 gui with the command mars.
399
400
401
402 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
403
404 - First official release 0.1
405
406 - Changes:
407
408 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
409 while-loop
410
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