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2 *** Version <cvs>
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6 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
7
8 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
9 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
10 camera version 0.7.
11
12 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
13 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
14
15 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
16
17 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
18 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
19 be done soon.
20
21 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
22 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
23
24 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
25 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
26 of time (readrep.C)
27
28 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
29 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
30 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
31
32 - Changed the name of the event trees:
33 + Events --> Events
34 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
35 + CalEvents --> Calibration
36
37 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
38
39 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
40
41 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
42 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
43
44 - added classes to calculate event rate
45 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
46
47 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
48
49 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
50
51 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
52 the new 'Synchonizer'
53
54
55
56 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
57
58 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
59 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
60 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
61
62 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
63 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
64 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
65
66 - added a new executable star which implements the
67 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
68 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
69
70 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
71 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
72 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
73
74 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
75 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
76
77 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
78
79
80
81 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
82
83 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
84 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
85 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
86 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
87
88 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
89 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
90
91 - added pedestal calculation
92
93 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
94 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
95
96 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
97
98 - added basic routines to apply padding
99
100 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
101 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
102
103 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
104 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
105
106 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
107 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
108
109 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
110 at all)
111
112 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
113 ignore files
114
115 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
116 to simulate the PMT camera
117
118 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
119 programs in the MC chain.
120
121 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
122 parameter in an eventloop.
123
124 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
125 location (Long, Lat, etc)
126
127 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
128
129 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
130 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
131
132 - added a new status display which can show the present status
133 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
134 an example can be found at status.C)
135
136 - reorganized directories:
137 classes describing the image --> mimage
138 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
139 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
140
141 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
142
143 - colors in logging output to screen
144
145 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
146 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
147 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
148 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
149 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
150
151 - reading of reflector files
152
153 - display data from reflector files in the camera
154
155 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
156
157 - logarithmic scale in camera
158
159 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
160
161
162
163 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
164
165 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
166
167 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
168 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
169 missing a single NN)
170
171 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
172 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
173 have any neighbour)
174
175 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
176 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
177 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
178 please ask Abelardo)
179
180 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
181 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
182
183 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
184
185 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
186 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
187 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
188 changed.
189
190 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
191 (MHMatrix)
192
193 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
194 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
195
196 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
197 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
198
199 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
200 event display gui.
201
202 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
203
204 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
205
206 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
207
208 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
209 to MHillas
210
211 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
212
213 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
214
215 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
216
217 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
218
219 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
220 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
221 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
222
223 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
224
225 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
226 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
227
228 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
229 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
230 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
231 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
232 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
233
234 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
235 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
236
237 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
238 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
239
240 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
241 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
242
243 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
244
245 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
246
247 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
248 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
249
250 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
251 (thanks to Raquel)
252
253 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
254 estfit.C) using a parametrization
255
256 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
257 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
258 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
259
260
261
262 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
263
264 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
265 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
266 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
267 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
268
269 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
270 for the collection area calculation
271
272 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
273 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
274
275 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
276 of one container
277
278 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
279 ascii file
280
281 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
282 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
283 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
284 hillas parameters)
285
286 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
287 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
288 see MHillas and MHillasExt
289
290 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
291 see MHillasSrc
292
293 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
294 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
295 all histograms)
296
297 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
298
299 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
300
301 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
302
303 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
304 an output stream instead of the whole container only
305
306 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
307 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
308
309 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
310 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
311
312 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
313 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
314
315 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
316
317 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
318 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
319 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
320
321 - Added:
322 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
323 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
324 they are needed in the flux calculation in
325 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
326 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
327 of Theta and the true energy
328
329 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
330 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
331 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
332 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
333 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
334 by unfolding
335
336 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
337
338
339
340 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
341
342 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
343 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
344 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
345
346 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
347
348 - Introduced verbosity levels
349
350 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
351
352 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
353 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
354
355 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
356 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
357
358 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
359
360 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
361
362 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
363 of a parameter container for each event
364
365 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
366
367 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
368
369 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
370 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
371 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
372
373 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
374 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
375 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
376
377
378
379 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
380
381 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
382
383 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
384 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
385
386 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
387 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
388 states
389
390 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
391 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
392
393 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
394
395 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
396 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
397
398 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
399 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
400
401 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
402 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
403 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
404
405 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
406 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
407
408 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
409 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
410
411 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
412 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
413
414
415
416 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
417
418 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
419
420 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
421
422 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
423
424 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
425
426 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
427
428 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
429
430 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
431
432 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
433
434 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
435 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
436
437
438
439 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
440
441 - Many demo macros added
442
443 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
444
445 - Hillas Calculation added
446
447 - Standard image cleaning available
448
449 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
450 (Remark: of the same structure)
451
452 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
453 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
454 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
455
456
457
458 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
459
460 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
461 gui with the command mars.
462
463
464
465 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
466
467 - First official release 0.1
468
469 - Changes:
470
471 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
472 while-loop
473
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