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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
9
10 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
11
12 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
13 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
14 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
15
16 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
17 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
18 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
19
20 - added a new executable star which implements the
21 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
22 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
23
24 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
25 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
26 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
27
28 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
29 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
30
31 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
32
33
34
35 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
36
37 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
38 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
39 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
40 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
41
42 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
43 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
44
45 - added pedestal calculation
46
47 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
48 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
49
50 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
51
52 - added basic routines to apply padding
53
54 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
55 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
56
57 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
58 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
59
60 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
61 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
62
63 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
64 at all)
65
66 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
67 ignore files
68
69 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
70 to simulate the PMT camera
71
72 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
73 programs in the MC chain.
74
75 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
76 parameter in an eventloop.
77
78 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
79 location (Long, Lat, etc)
80
81 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
82
83 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
84 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
85
86 - added a new status display which can show the present status
87 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
88 an example can be found at status.C)
89
90 - reorganized directories:
91 classes describing the image --> mimage
92 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
93 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
94
95 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
96
97 - colors in logging output to screen
98
99 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
100 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
101 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
102 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
103 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
104
105 - reading of reflector files
106
107 - display data from reflector files in the camera
108
109 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
110
111 - logarithmic scale in camera
112
113 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
114
115
116
117 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
118
119 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
120
121 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
122 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
123 missing a single NN)
124
125 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
126 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
127 have any neighbour)
128
129 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
130 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
131 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
132 please ask Abelardo)
133
134 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
135 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
136
137 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
138
139 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
140 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
141 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
142 changed.
143
144 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
145 (MHMatrix)
146
147 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
148 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
149
150 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
151 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
152
153 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
154 event display gui.
155
156 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
157
158 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
159
160 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
161
162 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
163 to MHillas
164
165 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
166
167 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
168
169 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
170
171 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
172
173 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
174 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
175 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
176
177 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
178
179 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
180 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
181
182 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
183 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
184 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
185 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
186 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
187
188 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
189 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
190
191 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
192 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
193
194 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
195 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
196
197 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
198
199 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
200
201 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
202 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
203
204 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
205 (thanks to Raquel)
206
207 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
208 estfit.C) using a parametrization
209
210 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
211 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
212 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
213
214
215
216 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
217
218 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
219 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
220 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
221 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
222
223 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
224 for the collection area calculation
225
226 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
227 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
228
229 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
230 of one container
231
232 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
233 ascii file
234
235 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
236 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
237 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
238 hillas parameters)
239
240 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
241 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
242 see MHillas and MHillasExt
243
244 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
245 see MHillasSrc
246
247 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
248 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
249 all histograms)
250
251 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
252
253 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
254
255 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
256
257 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
258 an output stream instead of the whole container only
259
260 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
261 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
262
263 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
264 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
265
266 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
267 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
268
269 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
270
271 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
272 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
273 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
274
275 - Added:
276 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
277 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
278 they are needed in the flux calculation in
279 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
280 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
281 of Theta and the true energy
282
283 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
284 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
285 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
286 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
287 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
288 by unfolding
289
290 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
291
292
293
294 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
295
296 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
297 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
298 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
299
300 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
301
302 - Introduced verbosity levels
303
304 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
305
306 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
307 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
308
309 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
310 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
311
312 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
313
314 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
315
316 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
317 of a parameter container for each event
318
319 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
320
321 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
322
323 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
324 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
325 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
326
327 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
328 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
329 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
330
331
332
333 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
334
335 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
336
337 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
338 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
339
340 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
341 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
342 states
343
344 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
345 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
346
347 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
348
349 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
350 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
351
352 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
353 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
354
355 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
356 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
357 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
358
359 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
360 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
361
362 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
363 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
364
365 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
366 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
367
368
369
370 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
371
372 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
373
374 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
375
376 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
377
378 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
379
380 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
381
382 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
383
384 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
385
386 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
387
388 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
389 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
390
391
392
393 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
394
395 - Many demo macros added
396
397 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
398
399 - Hillas Calculation added
400
401 - Standard image cleaning available
402
403 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
404 (Remark: of the same structure)
405
406 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
407 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
408 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
409
410
411
412 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
413
414 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
415 gui with the command mars.
416
417
418
419 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
420
421 - First official release 0.1
422
423 - Changes:
424
425 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
426 while-loop
427
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