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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 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
20
21
22
23 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
24
25 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
26 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
27 camera version 0.7.
28
29 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
30 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
31
32 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
33
34 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
35 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
36 be done soon.
37
38 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
39 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
40
41 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
42 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
43 of time (readrep.C)
44
45 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
46 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
47 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
48
49 - Changed the name of the event trees:
50 + Events --> Events
51 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
52 + CalEvents --> Calibration
53
54 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
55
56 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
57
58 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
59 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
60
61 - added classes to calculate event rate
62 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
63
64 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
65
66 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
67
68 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
69 the new 'Synchonizer'
70
71
72
73 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
74
75 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
76 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
77 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
78
79 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
80 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
81 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
82
83 - added a new executable star which implements the
84 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
85 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
86
87 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
88 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
89 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
90
91 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
92 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
93
94 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
95
96
97
98 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
99
100 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
101 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
102 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
103 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
104
105 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
106 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
107
108 - added pedestal calculation
109
110 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
111 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
112
113 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
114
115 - added basic routines to apply padding
116
117 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
118 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
119
120 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
121 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
122
123 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
124 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
125
126 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
127 at all)
128
129 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
130 ignore files
131
132 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
133 to simulate the PMT camera
134
135 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
136 programs in the MC chain.
137
138 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
139 parameter in an eventloop.
140
141 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
142 location (Long, Lat, etc)
143
144 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
145
146 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
147 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
148
149 - added a new status display which can show the present status
150 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
151 an example can be found at status.C)
152
153 - reorganized directories:
154 classes describing the image --> mimage
155 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
156 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
157
158 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
159
160 - colors in logging output to screen
161
162 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
163 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
164 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
165 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
166 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
167
168 - reading of reflector files
169
170 - display data from reflector files in the camera
171
172 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
173
174 - logarithmic scale in camera
175
176 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
177
178
179
180 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
181
182 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
183
184 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
185 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
186 missing a single NN)
187
188 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
189 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
190 have any neighbour)
191
192 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
193 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
194 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
195 please ask Abelardo)
196
197 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
198 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
199
200 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
201
202 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
203 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
204 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
205 changed.
206
207 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
208 (MHMatrix)
209
210 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
211 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
212
213 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
214 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
215
216 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
217 event display gui.
218
219 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
220
221 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
222
223 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
224
225 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
226 to MHillas
227
228 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
229
230 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
231
232 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
233
234 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
235
236 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
237 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
238 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
239
240 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
241
242 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
243 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
244
245 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
246 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
247 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
248 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
249 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
250
251 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
252 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
253
254 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
255 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
256
257 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
258 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
259
260 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
261
262 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
263
264 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
265 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
266
267 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
268 (thanks to Raquel)
269
270 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
271 estfit.C) using a parametrization
272
273 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
274 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
275 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
276
277
278
279 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
280
281 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
282 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
283 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
284 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
285
286 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
287 for the collection area calculation
288
289 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
290 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
291
292 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
293 of one container
294
295 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
296 ascii file
297
298 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
299 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
300 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
301 hillas parameters)
302
303 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
304 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
305 see MHillas and MHillasExt
306
307 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
308 see MHillasSrc
309
310 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
311 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
312 all histograms)
313
314 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
315
316 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
317
318 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
319
320 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
321 an output stream instead of the whole container only
322
323 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
324 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
325
326 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
327 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
328
329 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
330 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
331
332 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
333
334 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
335 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
336 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
337
338 - Added:
339 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
340 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
341 they are needed in the flux calculation in
342 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
343 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
344 of Theta and the true energy
345
346 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
347 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
348 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
349 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
350 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
351 by unfolding
352
353 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
354
355
356
357 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
358
359 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
360 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
361 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
362
363 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
364
365 - Introduced verbosity levels
366
367 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
368
369 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
370 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
371
372 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
373 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
374
375 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
376
377 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
378
379 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
380 of a parameter container for each event
381
382 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
383
384 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
385
386 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
387 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
388 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
389
390 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
391 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
392 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
393
394
395
396 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
397
398 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
399
400 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
401 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
402
403 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
404 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
405 states
406
407 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
408 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
409
410 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
411
412 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
413 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
414
415 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
416 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
417
418 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
419 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
420 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
421
422 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
423 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
424
425 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
426 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
427
428 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
429 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
430
431
432
433 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
434
435 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
436
437 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
438
439 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
440
441 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
442
443 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
444
445 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
446
447 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
448
449 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
450
451 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
452 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
453
454
455
456 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
457
458 - Many demo macros added
459
460 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
461
462 - Hillas Calculation added
463
464 - Standard image cleaning available
465
466 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
467 (Remark: of the same structure)
468
469 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
470 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
471 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
472
473
474
475 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
476
477 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
478 gui with the command mars.
479
480
481
482 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
483
484 - First official release 0.1
485
486 - Changes:
487
488 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
489 while-loop
490
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