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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
8 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
9 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
10 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
11
12 - added a new executable star which implements the
13 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
14 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
15
16 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
17 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
18 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
19
20 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
21 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
22
23 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
24
25
26
27 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
28
29 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
30 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
31 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
32 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
33
34 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
35 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
36
37 - added pedestal calculation
38
39 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
40 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
41
42 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
43
44 - added basic routines to apply padding
45
46 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
47 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
48
49 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
50 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
51
52 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
53 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
54
55 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
56 at all)
57
58 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
59 ignore files
60
61 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
62 to simulate the PMT camera
63
64 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
65 programs in the MC chain.
66
67 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
68 parameter in an eventloop.
69
70 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
71 location (Long, Lat, etc)
72
73 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
74
75 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
76 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
77
78 - added a new status display which can show the present status
79 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
80 an example can be found at status.C)
81
82 - reorganized directories:
83 classes describing the image --> mimage
84 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
85 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
86
87 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
88
89 - colors in logging output to screen
90
91 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
92 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
93 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
94 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
95 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
96
97 - reading of reflector files
98
99 - display data from reflector files in the camera
100
101 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
102
103 - logarithmic scale in camera
104
105 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
106
107
108
109 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
110
111 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
112
113 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
114 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
115 missing a single NN)
116
117 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
118 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
119 have any neighbour)
120
121 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
122 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
123 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
124 please ask Abelardo)
125
126 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
127 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
128
129 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
130
131 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
132 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
133 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
134 changed.
135
136 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
137 (MHMatrix)
138
139 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
140 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
141
142 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
143 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
144
145 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
146 event display gui.
147
148 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
149
150 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
151
152 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
153
154 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
155 to MHillas
156
157 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
158
159 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
160
161 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
162
163 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
164
165 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
166 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
167 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
168
169 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
170
171 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
172 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
173
174 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
175 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
176 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
177 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
178 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
179
180 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
181 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
182
183 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
184 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
185
186 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
187 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
188
189 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
190
191 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
192
193 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
194 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
195
196 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
197 (thanks to Raquel)
198
199 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
200 estfit.C) using a parametrization
201
202 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
203 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
204 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
205
206
207
208 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
209
210 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
211 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
212 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
213 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
214
215 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
216 for the collection area calculation
217
218 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
219 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
220
221 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
222 of one container
223
224 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
225 ascii file
226
227 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
228 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
229 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
230 hillas parameters)
231
232 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
233 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
234 see MHillas and MHillasExt
235
236 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
237 see MHillasSrc
238
239 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
240 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
241 all histograms)
242
243 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
244
245 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
246
247 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
248
249 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
250 an output stream instead of the whole container only
251
252 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
253 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
254
255 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
256 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
257
258 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
259 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
260
261 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
262
263 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
264 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
265 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
266
267 - Added:
268 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
269 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
270 they are needed in the flux calculation in
271 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
272 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
273 of Theta and the true energy
274
275 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
276 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
277 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
278 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
279 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
280 by unfolding
281
282 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
283
284
285
286 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
287
288 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
289 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
290 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
291
292 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
293
294 - Introduced verbosity levels
295
296 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
297
298 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
299 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
300
301 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
302 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
303
304 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
305
306 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
307
308 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
309 of a parameter container for each event
310
311 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
312
313 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
314
315 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
316 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
317 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
318
319 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
320 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
321 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
322
323
324
325 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
326
327 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
328
329 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
330 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
331
332 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
333 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
334 states
335
336 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
337 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
338
339 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
340
341 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
342 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
343
344 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
345 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
346
347 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
348 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
349 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
350
351 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
352 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
353
354 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
355 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
356
357 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
358 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
359
360
361
362 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
363
364 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
365
366 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
367
368 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
369
370 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
371
372 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
373
374 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
375
376 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
377
378 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
379
380 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
381 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
382
383
384
385 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
386
387 - Many demo macros added
388
389 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
390
391 - Hillas Calculation added
392
393 - Standard image cleaning available
394
395 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
396 (Remark: of the same structure)
397
398 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
399 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
400 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
401
402
403
404 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
405
406 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
407 gui with the command mars.
408
409
410
411 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
412
413 - First official release 0.1
414
415 - Changes:
416
417 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
418 while-loop
419
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