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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
9 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
10 - added a new executable star which has implements the
11 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
12 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
13 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
14 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
15 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
16
17
18
19 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
20
21 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
22 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
23 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
24 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
25
26 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
27 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
28
29 - added pedestal calculation
30
31 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
32 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
33
34 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
35
36 - added basic routines to apply padding
37
38 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
39 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
40
41 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
42 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
43
44 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
45 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
46
47 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
48 at all)
49
50 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
51 ignore files
52
53 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
54 to simulate the PMT camera
55
56 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
57 programs in the MC chain.
58
59 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
60 parameter in an eventloop.
61
62 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
63 location (Long, Lat, etc)
64
65 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
66
67 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
68 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
69
70 - added a new status display which can show the present status
71 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
72 an example can be found at status.C)
73
74 - reorganized directories:
75 classes describing the image --> mimage
76 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
77 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
78
79 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
80
81 - colors in logging output to screen
82
83 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
84 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
85 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
86 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
87 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
88
89 - reading of reflector files
90
91 - display data from reflector files in the camera
92
93 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
94
95 - logarithmic scale in camera
96
97 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
98
99
100
101 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
102
103 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
104
105 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
106 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
107 missing a single NN)
108
109 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
110 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
111 have any neighbour)
112
113 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
114 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
115 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
116 please ask Abelardo)
117
118 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
119 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
120
121 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
122
123 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
124 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
125 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
126 changed.
127
128 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
129 (MHMatrix)
130
131 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
132 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
133
134 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
135 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
136
137 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
138 event display gui.
139
140 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
141
142 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
143
144 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
145
146 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
147 to MHillas
148
149 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
150
151 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
152
153 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
154
155 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
156
157 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
158 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
159 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
160
161 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
162
163 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
164 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
165
166 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
167 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
168 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
169 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
170 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
171
172 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
173 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
174
175 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
176 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
177
178 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
179 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
180
181 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
182
183 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
184
185 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
186 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
187
188 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
189 (thanks to Raquel)
190
191 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
192 estfit.C) using a parametrization
193
194 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
195 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
196 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
197
198
199
200 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
201
202 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
203 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
204 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
205 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
206
207 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
208 for the collection area calculation
209
210 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
211 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
212
213 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
214 of one container
215
216 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
217 ascii file
218
219 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
220 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
221 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
222 hillas parameters)
223
224 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
225 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
226 see MHillas and MHillasExt
227
228 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
229 see MHillasSrc
230
231 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
232 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
233 all histograms)
234
235 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
236
237 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
238
239 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
240
241 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
242 an output stream instead of the whole container only
243
244 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
245 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
246
247 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
248 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
249
250 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
251 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
252
253 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
254
255 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
256 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
257 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
258
259 - Added:
260 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
261 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
262 they are needed in the flux calculation in
263 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
264 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
265 of Theta and the true energy
266
267 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
268 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
269 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
270 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
271 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
272 by unfolding
273
274 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
275
276
277
278 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
279
280 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
281 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
282 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
283
284 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
285
286 - Introduced verbosity levels
287
288 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
289
290 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
291 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
292
293 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
294 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
295
296 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
297
298 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
299
300 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
301 of a parameter container for each event
302
303 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
304
305 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
306
307 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
308 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
309 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
310
311 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
312 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
313 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
314
315
316
317 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
318
319 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
320
321 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
322 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
323
324 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
325 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
326 states
327
328 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
329 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
330
331 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
332
333 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
334 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
335
336 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
337 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
338
339 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
340 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
341 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
342
343 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
344 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
345
346 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
347 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
348
349 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
350 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
351
352
353
354 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
355
356 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
357
358 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
359
360 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
361
362 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
363
364 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
365
366 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
367
368 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
369
370 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
371
372 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
373 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
374
375
376
377 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
378
379 - Many demo macros added
380
381 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
382
383 - Hillas Calculation added
384
385 - Standard image cleaning available
386
387 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
388 (Remark: of the same structure)
389
390 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
391 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
392 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
393
394
395
396 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
397
398 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
399 gui with the command mars.
400
401
402
403 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
404
405 - First official release 0.1
406
407 - Changes:
408
409 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
410 while-loop
411
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