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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
5 macro pedphotcalc.C
6
7 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
8
9 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
10
11 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
12 minimizations
13
14 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
15 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
16
17 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
18
19 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
20 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
21 module
22
23 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
24 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
25
26 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
27
28 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
29
30 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
31
32 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
33
34 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
35
36 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs)
37
38
39
40 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
41
42 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
43 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
44 camera version 0.7.
45
46 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
47 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
48
49 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
50
51 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
52 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
53 be done soon.
54
55 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
56 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
57
58 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
59 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
60 of time (readrep.C)
61
62 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
63 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
64 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
65
66 - Changed the name of the event trees:
67 + Events --> Events
68 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
69 + CalEvents --> Calibration
70
71 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
72
73 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
74
75 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
76 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
77
78 - added classes to calculate event rate
79 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
80
81 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
82
83 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
84
85 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
86 the new 'Synchonizer'
87
88
89
90 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
91
92 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
93 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
94 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
95
96 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
97 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
98 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
99
100 - added a new executable star which implements the
101 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
102 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
103
104 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
105 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
106 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
107
108 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
109 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
110
111 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
112
113
114
115 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
116
117 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
118 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
119 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
120 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
121
122 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
123 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
124
125 - added pedestal calculation
126
127 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
128 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
129
130 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
131
132 - added basic routines to apply padding
133
134 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
135 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
136
137 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
138 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
139
140 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
141 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
142
143 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
144 at all)
145
146 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
147 ignore files
148
149 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
150 to simulate the PMT camera
151
152 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
153 programs in the MC chain.
154
155 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
156 parameter in an eventloop.
157
158 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
159 location (Long, Lat, etc)
160
161 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
162
163 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
164 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
165
166 - added a new status display which can show the present status
167 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
168 an example can be found at status.C)
169
170 - reorganized directories:
171 classes describing the image --> mimage
172 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
173 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
174
175 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
176
177 - colors in logging output to screen
178
179 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
180 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
181 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
182 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
183 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
184
185 - reading of reflector files
186
187 - display data from reflector files in the camera
188
189 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
190
191 - logarithmic scale in camera
192
193 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
194
195
196
197 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
198
199 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
200
201 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
202 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
203 missing a single NN)
204
205 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
206 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
207 have any neighbour)
208
209 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
210 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
211 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
212 please ask Abelardo)
213
214 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
215 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
216
217 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
218
219 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
220 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
221 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
222 changed.
223
224 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
225 (MHMatrix)
226
227 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
228 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
229
230 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
231 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
232
233 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
234 event display gui.
235
236 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
237
238 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
239
240 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
241
242 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
243 to MHillas
244
245 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
246
247 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
248
249 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
250
251 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
252
253 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
254 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
255 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
256
257 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
258
259 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
260 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
261
262 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
263 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
264 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
265 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
266 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
267
268 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
269 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
270
271 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
272 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
273
274 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
275 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
276
277 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
278
279 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
280
281 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
282 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
283
284 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
285 (thanks to Raquel)
286
287 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
288 estfit.C) using a parametrization
289
290 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
291 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
292 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
293
294
295
296 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
297
298 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
299 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
300 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
301 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
302
303 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
304 for the collection area calculation
305
306 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
307 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
308
309 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
310 of one container
311
312 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
313 ascii file
314
315 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
316 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
317 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
318 hillas parameters)
319
320 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
321 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
322 see MHillas and MHillasExt
323
324 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
325 see MHillasSrc
326
327 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
328 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
329 all histograms)
330
331 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
332
333 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
334
335 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
336
337 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
338 an output stream instead of the whole container only
339
340 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
341 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
342
343 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
344 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
345
346 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
347 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
348
349 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
350
351 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
352 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
353 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
354
355 - Added:
356 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
357 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
358 they are needed in the flux calculation in
359 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
360 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
361 of Theta and the true energy
362
363 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
364 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
365 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
366 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
367 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
368 by unfolding
369
370 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
371
372
373
374 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
375
376 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
377 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
378 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
379
380 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
381
382 - Introduced verbosity levels
383
384 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
385
386 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
387 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
388
389 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
390 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
391
392 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
393
394 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
395
396 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
397 of a parameter container for each event
398
399 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
400
401 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
402
403 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
404 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
405 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
406
407 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
408 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
409 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
410
411
412
413 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
414
415 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
416
417 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
418 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
419
420 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
421 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
422 states
423
424 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
425 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
426
427 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
428
429 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
430 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
431
432 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
433 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
434
435 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
436 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
437 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
438
439 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
440 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
441
442 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
443 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
444
445 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
446 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
447
448
449
450 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
451
452 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
453
454 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
455
456 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
457
458 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
459
460 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
461
462 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
463
464 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
465
466 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
467
468 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
469 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
470
471
472
473 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
474
475 - Many demo macros added
476
477 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
478
479 - Hillas Calculation added
480
481 - Standard image cleaning available
482
483 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
484 (Remark: of the same structure)
485
486 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
487 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
488 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
489
490
491
492 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
493
494 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
495 gui with the command mars.
496
497
498
499 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
500
501 - First official release 0.1
502
503 - Changes:
504
505 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
506 while-loop
507
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