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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
5 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
6 camera version 0.7.
7
8 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
9
10 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
11 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
12 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
13
14 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
15 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
16 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
17
18 - added a new executable star which implements the
19 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
20 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
21
22 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
23 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
24 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
25
26 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
27 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
28
29 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
30
31
32
33 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
34
35 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
36 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
37 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
38 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
39
40 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
41 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
42
43 - added pedestal calculation
44
45 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
46 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
47
48 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
49
50 - added basic routines to apply padding
51
52 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
53 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
54
55 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
56 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
57
58 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
59 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
60
61 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
62 at all)
63
64 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
65 ignore files
66
67 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
68 to simulate the PMT camera
69
70 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
71 programs in the MC chain.
72
73 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
74 parameter in an eventloop.
75
76 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
77 location (Long, Lat, etc)
78
79 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
80
81 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
82 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
83
84 - added a new status display which can show the present status
85 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
86 an example can be found at status.C)
87
88 - reorganized directories:
89 classes describing the image --> mimage
90 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
91 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
92
93 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
94
95 - colors in logging output to screen
96
97 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
98 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
99 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
100 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
101 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
102
103 - reading of reflector files
104
105 - display data from reflector files in the camera
106
107 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
108
109 - logarithmic scale in camera
110
111 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
112
113
114
115 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
116
117 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
118
119 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
120 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
121 missing a single NN)
122
123 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
124 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
125 have any neighbour)
126
127 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
128 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
129 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
130 please ask Abelardo)
131
132 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
133 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
134
135 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
136
137 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
138 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
139 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
140 changed.
141
142 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
143 (MHMatrix)
144
145 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
146 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
147
148 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
149 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
150
151 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
152 event display gui.
153
154 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
155
156 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
157
158 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
159
160 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
161 to MHillas
162
163 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
164
165 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
166
167 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
168
169 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
170
171 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
172 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
173 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
174
175 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
176
177 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
178 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
179
180 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
181 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
182 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
183 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
184 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
185
186 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
187 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
188
189 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
190 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
191
192 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
193 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
194
195 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
196
197 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
198
199 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
200 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
201
202 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
203 (thanks to Raquel)
204
205 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
206 estfit.C) using a parametrization
207
208 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
209 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
210 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
211
212
213
214 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
215
216 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
217 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
218 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
219 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
220
221 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
222 for the collection area calculation
223
224 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
225 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
226
227 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
228 of one container
229
230 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
231 ascii file
232
233 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
234 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
235 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
236 hillas parameters)
237
238 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
239 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
240 see MHillas and MHillasExt
241
242 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
243 see MHillasSrc
244
245 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
246 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
247 all histograms)
248
249 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
250
251 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
252
253 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
254
255 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
256 an output stream instead of the whole container only
257
258 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
259 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
260
261 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
262 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
263
264 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
265 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
266
267 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
268
269 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
270 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
271 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
272
273 - Added:
274 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
275 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
276 they are needed in the flux calculation in
277 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
278 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
279 of Theta and the true energy
280
281 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
282 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
283 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
284 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
285 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
286 by unfolding
287
288 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
289
290
291
292 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
293
294 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
295 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
296 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
297
298 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
299
300 - Introduced verbosity levels
301
302 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
303
304 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
305 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
306
307 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
308 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
309
310 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
311
312 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
313
314 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
315 of a parameter container for each event
316
317 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
318
319 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
320
321 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
322 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
323 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
324
325 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
326 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
327 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
328
329
330
331 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
332
333 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
334
335 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
336 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
337
338 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
339 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
340 states
341
342 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
343 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
344
345 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
346
347 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
348 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
349
350 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
351 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
352
353 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
354 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
355 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
356
357 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
358 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
359
360 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
361 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
362
363 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
364 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
365
366
367
368 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
369
370 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
371
372 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
373
374 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
375
376 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
377
378 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
379
380 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
381
382 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
383
384 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
385
386 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
387 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
388
389
390
391 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
392
393 - Many demo macros added
394
395 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
396
397 - Hillas Calculation added
398
399 - Standard image cleaning available
400
401 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
402 (Remark: of the same structure)
403
404 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
405 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
406 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
407
408
409
410 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
411
412 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
413 gui with the command mars.
414
415
416
417 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
418
419 - First official release 0.1
420
421 - Changes:
422
423 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
424 while-loop
425
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