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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 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
22
23
24
25 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
26
27 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
28 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
29 camera version 0.7.
30
31 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
32 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
33
34 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
35
36 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
37 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
38 be done soon.
39
40 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
41 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
42
43 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
44 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
45 of time (readrep.C)
46
47 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
48 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
49 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
50
51 - Changed the name of the event trees:
52 + Events --> Events
53 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
54 + CalEvents --> Calibration
55
56 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
57
58 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
59
60 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
61 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
62
63 - added classes to calculate event rate
64 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
65
66 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
67
68 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
69
70 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
71 the new 'Synchonizer'
72
73
74
75 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
76
77 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
78 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
79 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
80
81 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
82 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
83 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
84
85 - added a new executable star which implements the
86 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
87 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
88
89 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
90 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
91 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
92
93 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
94 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
95
96 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
97
98
99
100 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
101
102 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
103 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
104 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
105 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
106
107 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
108 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
109
110 - added pedestal calculation
111
112 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
113 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
114
115 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
116
117 - added basic routines to apply padding
118
119 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
120 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
121
122 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
123 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
124
125 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
126 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
127
128 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
129 at all)
130
131 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
132 ignore files
133
134 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
135 to simulate the PMT camera
136
137 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
138 programs in the MC chain.
139
140 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
141 parameter in an eventloop.
142
143 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
144 location (Long, Lat, etc)
145
146 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
147
148 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
149 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
150
151 - added a new status display which can show the present status
152 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
153 an example can be found at status.C)
154
155 - reorganized directories:
156 classes describing the image --> mimage
157 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
158 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
159
160 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
161
162 - colors in logging output to screen
163
164 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
165 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
166 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
167 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
168 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
169
170 - reading of reflector files
171
172 - display data from reflector files in the camera
173
174 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
175
176 - logarithmic scale in camera
177
178 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
179
180
181
182 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
183
184 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
185
186 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
187 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
188 missing a single NN)
189
190 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
191 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
192 have any neighbour)
193
194 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
195 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
196 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
197 please ask Abelardo)
198
199 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
200 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
201
202 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
203
204 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
205 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
206 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
207 changed.
208
209 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
210 (MHMatrix)
211
212 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
213 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
214
215 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
216 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
217
218 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
219 event display gui.
220
221 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
222
223 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
224
225 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
226
227 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
228 to MHillas
229
230 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
231
232 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
233
234 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
235
236 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
237
238 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
239 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
240 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
241
242 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
243
244 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
245 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
246
247 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
248 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
249 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
250 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
251 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
252
253 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
254 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
255
256 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
257 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
258
259 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
260 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
261
262 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
263
264 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
265
266 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
267 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
268
269 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
270 (thanks to Raquel)
271
272 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
273 estfit.C) using a parametrization
274
275 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
276 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
277 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
278
279
280
281 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
282
283 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
284 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
285 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
286 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
287
288 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
289 for the collection area calculation
290
291 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
292 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
293
294 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
295 of one container
296
297 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
298 ascii file
299
300 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
301 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
302 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
303 hillas parameters)
304
305 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
306 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
307 see MHillas and MHillasExt
308
309 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
310 see MHillasSrc
311
312 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
313 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
314 all histograms)
315
316 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
317
318 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
319
320 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
321
322 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
323 an output stream instead of the whole container only
324
325 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
326 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
327
328 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
329 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
330
331 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
332 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
333
334 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
335
336 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
337 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
338 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
339
340 - Added:
341 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
342 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
343 they are needed in the flux calculation in
344 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
345 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
346 of Theta and the true energy
347
348 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
349 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
350 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
351 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
352 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
353 by unfolding
354
355 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
356
357
358
359 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
360
361 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
362 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
363 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
364
365 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
366
367 - Introduced verbosity levels
368
369 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
370
371 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
372 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
373
374 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
375 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
376
377 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
378
379 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
380
381 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
382 of a parameter container for each event
383
384 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
385
386 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
387
388 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
389 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
390 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
391
392 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
393 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
394 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
395
396
397
398 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
399
400 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
401
402 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
403 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
404
405 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
406 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
407 states
408
409 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
410 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
411
412 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
413
414 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
415 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
416
417 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
418 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
419
420 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
421 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
422 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
423
424 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
425 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
426
427 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
428 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
429
430 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
431 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
432
433
434
435 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
436
437 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
438
439 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
440
441 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
442
443 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
444
445 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
446
447 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
448
449 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
450
451 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
452
453 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
454 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
455
456
457
458 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
459
460 - Many demo macros added
461
462 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
463
464 - Hillas Calculation added
465
466 - Standard image cleaning available
467
468 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
469 (Remark: of the same structure)
470
471 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
472 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
473 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
474
475
476
477 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
478
479 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
480 gui with the command mars.
481
482
483
484 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
485
486 - First official release 0.1
487
488 - Changes:
489
490 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
491 while-loop
492
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