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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
5
6 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
7 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
8 module
9
10 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
11 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
12
13 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
14
15 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
16
17
18
19 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
20
21 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
22 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
23 camera version 0.7.
24
25 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
26 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
27
28 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
29
30 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
31 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
32 be done soon.
33
34 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
35 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
36
37 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
38 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
39 of time (readrep.C)
40
41 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
42 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
43 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
44
45 - Changed the name of the event trees:
46 + Events --> Events
47 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
48 + CalEvents --> Calibration
49
50 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
51
52 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
53
54 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
55 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
56
57 - added classes to calculate event rate
58 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
59
60 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
61
62 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
63
64 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
65 the new 'Synchonizer'
66
67
68
69 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
70
71 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
72 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
73 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
74
75 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
76 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
77 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
78
79 - added a new executable star which implements the
80 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
81 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
82
83 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
84 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
85 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
86
87 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
88 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
89
90 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
91
92
93
94 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
95
96 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
97 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
98 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
99 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
100
101 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
102 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
103
104 - added pedestal calculation
105
106 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
107 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
108
109 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
110
111 - added basic routines to apply padding
112
113 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
114 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
115
116 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
117 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
118
119 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
120 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
121
122 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
123 at all)
124
125 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
126 ignore files
127
128 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
129 to simulate the PMT camera
130
131 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
132 programs in the MC chain.
133
134 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
135 parameter in an eventloop.
136
137 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
138 location (Long, Lat, etc)
139
140 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
141
142 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
143 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
144
145 - added a new status display which can show the present status
146 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
147 an example can be found at status.C)
148
149 - reorganized directories:
150 classes describing the image --> mimage
151 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
152 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
153
154 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
155
156 - colors in logging output to screen
157
158 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
159 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
160 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
161 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
162 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
163
164 - reading of reflector files
165
166 - display data from reflector files in the camera
167
168 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
169
170 - logarithmic scale in camera
171
172 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
173
174
175
176 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
177
178 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
179
180 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
181 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
182 missing a single NN)
183
184 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
185 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
186 have any neighbour)
187
188 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
189 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
190 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
191 please ask Abelardo)
192
193 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
194 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
195
196 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
197
198 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
199 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
200 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
201 changed.
202
203 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
204 (MHMatrix)
205
206 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
207 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
208
209 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
210 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
211
212 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
213 event display gui.
214
215 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
216
217 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
218
219 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
220
221 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
222 to MHillas
223
224 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
225
226 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
227
228 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
229
230 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
231
232 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
233 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
234 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
235
236 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
237
238 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
239 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
240
241 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
242 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
243 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
244 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
245 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
246
247 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
248 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
249
250 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
251 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
252
253 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
254 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
255
256 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
257
258 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
259
260 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
261 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
262
263 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
264 (thanks to Raquel)
265
266 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
267 estfit.C) using a parametrization
268
269 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
270 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
271 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
272
273
274
275 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
276
277 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
278 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
279 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
280 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
281
282 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
283 for the collection area calculation
284
285 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
286 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
287
288 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
289 of one container
290
291 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
292 ascii file
293
294 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
295 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
296 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
297 hillas parameters)
298
299 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
300 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
301 see MHillas and MHillasExt
302
303 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
304 see MHillasSrc
305
306 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
307 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
308 all histograms)
309
310 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
311
312 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
313
314 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
315
316 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
317 an output stream instead of the whole container only
318
319 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
320 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
321
322 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
323 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
324
325 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
326 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
327
328 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
329
330 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
331 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
332 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
333
334 - Added:
335 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
336 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
337 they are needed in the flux calculation in
338 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
339 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
340 of Theta and the true energy
341
342 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
343 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
344 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
345 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
346 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
347 by unfolding
348
349 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
350
351
352
353 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
354
355 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
356 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
357 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
358
359 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
360
361 - Introduced verbosity levels
362
363 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
364
365 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
366 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
367
368 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
369 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
370
371 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
372
373 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
374
375 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
376 of a parameter container for each event
377
378 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
379
380 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
381
382 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
383 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
384 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
385
386 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
387 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
388 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
389
390
391
392 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
393
394 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
395
396 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
397 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
398
399 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
400 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
401 states
402
403 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
404 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
405
406 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
407
408 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
409 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
410
411 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
412 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
413
414 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
415 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
416 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
417
418 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
419 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
420
421 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
422 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
423
424 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
425 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
426
427
428
429 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
430
431 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
432
433 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
434
435 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
436
437 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
438
439 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
440
441 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
442
443 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
444
445 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
446
447 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
448 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
449
450
451
452 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
453
454 - Many demo macros added
455
456 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
457
458 - Hillas Calculation added
459
460 - Standard image cleaning available
461
462 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
463 (Remark: of the same structure)
464
465 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
466 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
467 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
468
469
470
471 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
472
473 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
474 gui with the command mars.
475
476
477
478 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
479
480 - First official release 0.1
481
482 - Changes:
483
484 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
485 while-loop
486
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