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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
5
6 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
7
8 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
9 minimizations
10
11 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
12 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
13
14 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
15
16 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
17 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
18 module
19
20 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
21 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
22
23 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
24
25 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
26
27 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
28
29 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
30
31 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
32
33
34
35 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
36
37 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
38 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
39 camera version 0.7.
40
41 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
42 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
43
44 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
45
46 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
47 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
48 be done soon.
49
50 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
51 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
52
53 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
54 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
55 of time (readrep.C)
56
57 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
58 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
59 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
60
61 - Changed the name of the event trees:
62 + Events --> Events
63 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
64 + CalEvents --> Calibration
65
66 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
67
68 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
69
70 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
71 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
72
73 - added classes to calculate event rate
74 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
75
76 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
77
78 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
79
80 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
81 the new 'Synchonizer'
82
83
84
85 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
86
87 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
88 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
89 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
90
91 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
92 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
93 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
94
95 - added a new executable star which implements the
96 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
97 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
98
99 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
100 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
101 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
102
103 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
104 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
105
106 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
107
108
109
110 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
111
112 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
113 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
114 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
115 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
116
117 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
118 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
119
120 - added pedestal calculation
121
122 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
123 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
124
125 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
126
127 - added basic routines to apply padding
128
129 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
130 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
131
132 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
133 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
134
135 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
136 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
137
138 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
139 at all)
140
141 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
142 ignore files
143
144 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
145 to simulate the PMT camera
146
147 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
148 programs in the MC chain.
149
150 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
151 parameter in an eventloop.
152
153 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
154 location (Long, Lat, etc)
155
156 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
157
158 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
159 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
160
161 - added a new status display which can show the present status
162 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
163 an example can be found at status.C)
164
165 - reorganized directories:
166 classes describing the image --> mimage
167 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
168 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
169
170 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
171
172 - colors in logging output to screen
173
174 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
175 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
176 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
177 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
178 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
179
180 - reading of reflector files
181
182 - display data from reflector files in the camera
183
184 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
185
186 - logarithmic scale in camera
187
188 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
189
190
191
192 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
193
194 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
195
196 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
197 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
198 missing a single NN)
199
200 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
201 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
202 have any neighbour)
203
204 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
205 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
206 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
207 please ask Abelardo)
208
209 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
210 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
211
212 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
213
214 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
215 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
216 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
217 changed.
218
219 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
220 (MHMatrix)
221
222 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
223 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
224
225 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
226 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
227
228 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
229 event display gui.
230
231 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
232
233 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
234
235 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
236
237 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
238 to MHillas
239
240 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
241
242 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
243
244 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
245
246 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
247
248 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
249 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
250 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
251
252 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
253
254 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
255 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
256
257 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
258 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
259 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
260 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
261 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
262
263 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
264 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
265
266 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
267 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
268
269 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
270 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
271
272 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
273
274 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
275
276 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
277 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
278
279 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
280 (thanks to Raquel)
281
282 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
283 estfit.C) using a parametrization
284
285 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
286 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
287 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
288
289
290
291 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
292
293 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
294 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
295 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
296 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
297
298 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
299 for the collection area calculation
300
301 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
302 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
303
304 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
305 of one container
306
307 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
308 ascii file
309
310 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
311 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
312 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
313 hillas parameters)
314
315 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
316 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
317 see MHillas and MHillasExt
318
319 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
320 see MHillasSrc
321
322 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
323 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
324 all histograms)
325
326 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
327
328 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
329
330 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
331
332 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
333 an output stream instead of the whole container only
334
335 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
336 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
337
338 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
339 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
340
341 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
342 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
343
344 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
345
346 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
347 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
348 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
349
350 - Added:
351 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
352 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
353 they are needed in the flux calculation in
354 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
355 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
356 of Theta and the true energy
357
358 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
359 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
360 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
361 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
362 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
363 by unfolding
364
365 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
366
367
368
369 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
370
371 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
372 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
373 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
374
375 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
376
377 - Introduced verbosity levels
378
379 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
380
381 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
382 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
383
384 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
385 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
386
387 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
388
389 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
390
391 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
392 of a parameter container for each event
393
394 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
395
396 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
397
398 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
399 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
400 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
401
402 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
403 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
404 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
405
406
407
408 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
409
410 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
411
412 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
413 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
414
415 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
416 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
417 states
418
419 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
420 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
421
422 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
423
424 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
425 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
426
427 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
428 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
429
430 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
431 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
432 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
433
434 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
435 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
436
437 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
438 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
439
440 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
441 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
442
443
444
445 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
446
447 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
448
449 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
450
451 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
452
453 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
454
455 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
456
457 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
458
459 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
460
461 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
462
463 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
464 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
465
466
467
468 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
469
470 - Many demo macros added
471
472 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
473
474 - Hillas Calculation added
475
476 - Standard image cleaning available
477
478 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
479 (Remark: of the same structure)
480
481 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
482 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
483 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
484
485
486
487 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
488
489 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
490 gui with the command mars.
491
492
493
494 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
495
496 - First official release 0.1
497
498 - Changes:
499
500 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
501 while-loop
502
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