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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 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
18
19
20
21 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
22
23 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
24 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
25 camera version 0.7.
26
27 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
28 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
29
30 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
31
32 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
33 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
34 be done soon.
35
36 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
37 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
38
39 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
40 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
41 of time (readrep.C)
42
43 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
44 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
45 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
46
47 - Changed the name of the event trees:
48 + Events --> Events
49 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
50 + CalEvents --> Calibration
51
52 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
53
54 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
55
56 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
57 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
58
59 - added classes to calculate event rate
60 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
61
62 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
63
64 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
65
66 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
67 the new 'Synchonizer'
68
69
70
71 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
72
73 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
74 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
75 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
76
77 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
78 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
79 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
80
81 - added a new executable star which implements the
82 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
83 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
84
85 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
86 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
87 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
88
89 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
90 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
91
92 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
93
94
95
96 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
97
98 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
99 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
100 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
101 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
102
103 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
104 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
105
106 - added pedestal calculation
107
108 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
109 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
110
111 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
112
113 - added basic routines to apply padding
114
115 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
116 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
117
118 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
119 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
120
121 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
122 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
123
124 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
125 at all)
126
127 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
128 ignore files
129
130 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
131 to simulate the PMT camera
132
133 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
134 programs in the MC chain.
135
136 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
137 parameter in an eventloop.
138
139 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
140 location (Long, Lat, etc)
141
142 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
143
144 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
145 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
146
147 - added a new status display which can show the present status
148 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
149 an example can be found at status.C)
150
151 - reorganized directories:
152 classes describing the image --> mimage
153 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
154 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
155
156 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
157
158 - colors in logging output to screen
159
160 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
161 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
162 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
163 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
164 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
165
166 - reading of reflector files
167
168 - display data from reflector files in the camera
169
170 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
171
172 - logarithmic scale in camera
173
174 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
175
176
177
178 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
179
180 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
181
182 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
183 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
184 missing a single NN)
185
186 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
187 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
188 have any neighbour)
189
190 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
191 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
192 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
193 please ask Abelardo)
194
195 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
196 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
197
198 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
199
200 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
201 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
202 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
203 changed.
204
205 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
206 (MHMatrix)
207
208 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
209 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
210
211 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
212 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
213
214 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
215 event display gui.
216
217 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
218
219 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
220
221 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
222
223 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
224 to MHillas
225
226 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
227
228 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
229
230 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
231
232 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
233
234 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
235 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
236 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
237
238 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
239
240 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
241 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
242
243 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
244 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
245 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
246 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
247 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
248
249 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
250 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
251
252 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
253 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
254
255 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
256 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
257
258 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
259
260 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
261
262 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
263 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
264
265 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
266 (thanks to Raquel)
267
268 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
269 estfit.C) using a parametrization
270
271 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
272 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
273 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
274
275
276
277 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
278
279 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
280 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
281 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
282 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
283
284 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
285 for the collection area calculation
286
287 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
288 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
289
290 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
291 of one container
292
293 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
294 ascii file
295
296 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
297 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
298 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
299 hillas parameters)
300
301 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
302 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
303 see MHillas and MHillasExt
304
305 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
306 see MHillasSrc
307
308 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
309 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
310 all histograms)
311
312 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
313
314 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
315
316 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
317
318 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
319 an output stream instead of the whole container only
320
321 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
322 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
323
324 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
325 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
326
327 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
328 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
329
330 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
331
332 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
333 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
334 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
335
336 - Added:
337 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
338 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
339 they are needed in the flux calculation in
340 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
341 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
342 of Theta and the true energy
343
344 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
345 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
346 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
347 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
348 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
349 by unfolding
350
351 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
352
353
354
355 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
356
357 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
358 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
359 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
360
361 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
362
363 - Introduced verbosity levels
364
365 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
366
367 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
368 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
369
370 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
371 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
372
373 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
374
375 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
376
377 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
378 of a parameter container for each event
379
380 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
381
382 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
383
384 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
385 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
386 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
387
388 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
389 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
390 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
391
392
393
394 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
395
396 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
397
398 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
399 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
400
401 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
402 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
403 states
404
405 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
406 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
407
408 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
409
410 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
411 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
412
413 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
414 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
415
416 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
417 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
418 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
419
420 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
421 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
422
423 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
424 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
425
426 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
427 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
428
429
430
431 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
432
433 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
434
435 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
436
437 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
438
439 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
440
441 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
442
443 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
444
445 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
446
447 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
448
449 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
450 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
451
452
453
454 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
455
456 - Many demo macros added
457
458 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
459
460 - Hillas Calculation added
461
462 - Standard image cleaning available
463
464 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
465 (Remark: of the same structure)
466
467 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
468 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
469 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
470
471
472
473 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
474
475 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
476 gui with the command mars.
477
478
479
480 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
481
482 - First official release 0.1
483
484 - Changes:
485
486 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
487 while-loop
488
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