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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 + MJPedestals
38 + MJCalibration
39 + MJExtractSignal
40
41
42
43 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
44
45 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
46 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
47 camera version 0.7.
48
49 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
50 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
51
52 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
53
54 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
55 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
56 be done soon.
57
58 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
59 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
60
61 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
62 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
63 of time (readrep.C)
64
65 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
66 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
67 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
68
69 - Changed the name of the event trees:
70 + Events --> Events
71 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
72 + CalEvents --> Calibration
73
74 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
75
76 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
77
78 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
79 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
80
81 - added classes to calculate event rate
82 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
83
84 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
85
86 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
87
88 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
89 the new 'Synchonizer'
90
91
92
93 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
94
95 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
96 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
97 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
98
99 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
100 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
101 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
102
103 - added a new executable star which implements the
104 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
105 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
106
107 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
108 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
109 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
110
111 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
112 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
113
114 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
115
116
117
118 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
119
120 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
121 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
122 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
123 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
124
125 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
126 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
127
128 - added pedestal calculation
129
130 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
131 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
132
133 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
134
135 - added basic routines to apply padding
136
137 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
138 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
139
140 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
141 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
142
143 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
144 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
145
146 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
147 at all)
148
149 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
150 ignore files
151
152 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
153 to simulate the PMT camera
154
155 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
156 programs in the MC chain.
157
158 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
159 parameter in an eventloop.
160
161 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
162 location (Long, Lat, etc)
163
164 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
165
166 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
167 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
168
169 - added a new status display which can show the present status
170 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
171 an example can be found at status.C)
172
173 - reorganized directories:
174 classes describing the image --> mimage
175 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
176 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
177
178 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
179
180 - colors in logging output to screen
181
182 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
183 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
184 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
185 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
186 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
187
188 - reading of reflector files
189
190 - display data from reflector files in the camera
191
192 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
193
194 - logarithmic scale in camera
195
196 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
197
198
199
200 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
201
202 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
203
204 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
205 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
206 missing a single NN)
207
208 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
209 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
210 have any neighbour)
211
212 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
213 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
214 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
215 please ask Abelardo)
216
217 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
218 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
219
220 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
221
222 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
223 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
224 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
225 changed.
226
227 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
228 (MHMatrix)
229
230 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
231 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
232
233 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
234 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
235
236 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
237 event display gui.
238
239 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
240
241 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
242
243 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
244
245 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
246 to MHillas
247
248 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
249
250 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
251
252 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
253
254 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
255
256 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
257 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
258 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
259
260 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
261
262 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
263 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
264
265 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
266 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
267 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
268 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
269 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
270
271 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
272 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
273
274 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
275 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
276
277 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
278 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
279
280 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
281
282 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
283
284 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
285 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
286
287 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
288 (thanks to Raquel)
289
290 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
291 estfit.C) using a parametrization
292
293 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
294 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
295 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
296
297
298
299 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
300
301 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
302 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
303 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
304 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
305
306 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
307 for the collection area calculation
308
309 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
310 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
311
312 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
313 of one container
314
315 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
316 ascii file
317
318 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
319 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
320 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
321 hillas parameters)
322
323 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
324 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
325 see MHillas and MHillasExt
326
327 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
328 see MHillasSrc
329
330 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
331 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
332 all histograms)
333
334 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
335
336 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
337
338 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
339
340 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
341 an output stream instead of the whole container only
342
343 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
344 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
345
346 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
347 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
348
349 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
350 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
351
352 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
353
354 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
355 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
356 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
357
358 - Added:
359 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
360 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
361 they are needed in the flux calculation in
362 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
363 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
364 of Theta and the true energy
365
366 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
367 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
368 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
369 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
370 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
371 by unfolding
372
373 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
374
375
376
377 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
378
379 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
380 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
381 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
382
383 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
384
385 - Introduced verbosity levels
386
387 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
388
389 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
390 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
391
392 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
393 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
394
395 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
396
397 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
398
399 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
400 of a parameter container for each event
401
402 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
403
404 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
405
406 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
407 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
408 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
409
410 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
411 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
412 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
413
414
415
416 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
417
418 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
419
420 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
421 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
422
423 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
424 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
425 states
426
427 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
428 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
429
430 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
431
432 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
433 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
434
435 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
436 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
437
438 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
439 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
440 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
441
442 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
443 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
444
445 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
446 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
447
448 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
449 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
450
451
452
453 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
454
455 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
456
457 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
458
459 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
460
461 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
462
463 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
464
465 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
466
467 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
468
469 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
470
471 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
472 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
473
474
475
476 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
477
478 - Many demo macros added
479
480 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
481
482 - Hillas Calculation added
483
484 - Standard image cleaning available
485
486 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
487 (Remark: of the same structure)
488
489 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
490 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
491 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
492
493
494
495 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
496
497 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
498 gui with the command mars.
499
500
501
502 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
503
504 - First official release 0.1
505
506 - Changes:
507
508 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
509 while-loop
510
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