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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 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
9 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
10
11 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
12
13 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
14 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
15 be done soon.
16
17 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
18 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
19
20 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
21 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
22 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
23
24 - Changed the name of the event trees:
25 + Events --> Events
26 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
27 + CalEvents --> Calibration
28
29 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
30
31
32
33 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
34
35 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
36 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
37 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
38
39 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
40 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
41 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
42
43 - added a new executable star which implements the
44 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
45 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
46
47 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
48 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
49 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
50
51 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
52 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
53
54 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
55
56
57
58 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
59
60 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
61 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
62 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
63 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
64
65 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
66 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
67
68 - added pedestal calculation
69
70 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
71 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
72
73 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
74
75 - added basic routines to apply padding
76
77 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
78 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
79
80 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
81 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
82
83 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
84 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
85
86 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
87 at all)
88
89 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
90 ignore files
91
92 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
93 to simulate the PMT camera
94
95 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
96 programs in the MC chain.
97
98 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
99 parameter in an eventloop.
100
101 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
102 location (Long, Lat, etc)
103
104 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
105
106 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
107 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
108
109 - added a new status display which can show the present status
110 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
111 an example can be found at status.C)
112
113 - reorganized directories:
114 classes describing the image --> mimage
115 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
116 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
117
118 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
119
120 - colors in logging output to screen
121
122 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
123 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
124 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
125 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
126 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
127
128 - reading of reflector files
129
130 - display data from reflector files in the camera
131
132 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
133
134 - logarithmic scale in camera
135
136 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
137
138
139
140 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
141
142 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
143
144 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
145 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
146 missing a single NN)
147
148 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
149 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
150 have any neighbour)
151
152 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
153 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
154 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
155 please ask Abelardo)
156
157 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
158 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
159
160 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
161
162 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
163 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
164 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
165 changed.
166
167 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
168 (MHMatrix)
169
170 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
171 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
172
173 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
174 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
175
176 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
177 event display gui.
178
179 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
180
181 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
182
183 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
184
185 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
186 to MHillas
187
188 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
189
190 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
191
192 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
193
194 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
195
196 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
197 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
198 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
199
200 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
201
202 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
203 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
204
205 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
206 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
207 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
208 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
209 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
210
211 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
212 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
213
214 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
215 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
216
217 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
218 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
219
220 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
221
222 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
223
224 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
225 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
226
227 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
228 (thanks to Raquel)
229
230 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
231 estfit.C) using a parametrization
232
233 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
234 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
235 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
236
237
238
239 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
240
241 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
242 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
243 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
244 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
245
246 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
247 for the collection area calculation
248
249 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
250 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
251
252 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
253 of one container
254
255 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
256 ascii file
257
258 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
259 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
260 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
261 hillas parameters)
262
263 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
264 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
265 see MHillas and MHillasExt
266
267 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
268 see MHillasSrc
269
270 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
271 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
272 all histograms)
273
274 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
275
276 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
277
278 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
279
280 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
281 an output stream instead of the whole container only
282
283 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
284 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
285
286 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
287 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
288
289 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
290 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
291
292 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
293
294 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
295 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
296 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
297
298 - Added:
299 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
300 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
301 they are needed in the flux calculation in
302 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
303 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
304 of Theta and the true energy
305
306 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
307 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
308 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
309 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
310 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
311 by unfolding
312
313 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
314
315
316
317 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
318
319 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
320 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
321 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
322
323 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
324
325 - Introduced verbosity levels
326
327 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
328
329 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
330 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
331
332 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
333 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
334
335 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
336
337 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
338
339 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
340 of a parameter container for each event
341
342 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
343
344 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
345
346 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
347 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
348 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
349
350 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
351 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
352 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
353
354
355
356 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
357
358 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
359
360 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
361 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
362
363 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
364 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
365 states
366
367 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
368 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
369
370 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
371
372 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
373 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
374
375 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
376 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
377
378 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
379 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
380 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
381
382 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
383 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
384
385 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
386 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
387
388 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
389 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
390
391
392
393 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
394
395 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
396
397 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
398
399 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
400
401 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
402
403 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
404
405 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
406
407 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
408
409 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
410
411 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
412 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
413
414
415
416 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
417
418 - Many demo macros added
419
420 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
421
422 - Hillas Calculation added
423
424 - Standard image cleaning available
425
426 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
427 (Remark: of the same structure)
428
429 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
430 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
431 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
432
433
434
435 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
436
437 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
438 gui with the command mars.
439
440
441
442 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
443
444 - First official release 0.1
445
446 - Changes:
447
448 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
449 while-loop
450
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