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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 Note: All of them are preliminary!
41
42
43
44 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
45
46 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
47 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
48 camera version 0.7.
49
50 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
51 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
52
53 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
54
55 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
56 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
57 be done soon.
58
59 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
60 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
61
62 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
63 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
64 of time (readrep.C)
65
66 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
67 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
68 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
69
70 - Changed the name of the event trees:
71 + Events --> Events
72 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
73 + CalEvents --> Calibration
74
75 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
76
77 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
78
79 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
80 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
81
82 - added classes to calculate event rate
83 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
84
85 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
86
87 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
88
89 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
90 the new 'Synchonizer'
91
92
93
94 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
95
96 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
97 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
98 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
99
100 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
101 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
102 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
103
104 - added a new executable star which implements the
105 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
106 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
107
108 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
109 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
110 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
111
112 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
113 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
114
115 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
116
117
118
119 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
120
121 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
122 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
123 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
124 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
125
126 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
127 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
128
129 - added pedestal calculation
130
131 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
132 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
133
134 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
135
136 - added basic routines to apply padding
137
138 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
139 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
140
141 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
142 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
143
144 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
145 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
146
147 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
148 at all)
149
150 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
151 ignore files
152
153 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
154 to simulate the PMT camera
155
156 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
157 programs in the MC chain.
158
159 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
160 parameter in an eventloop.
161
162 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
163 location (Long, Lat, etc)
164
165 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
166
167 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
168 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
169
170 - added a new status display which can show the present status
171 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
172 an example can be found at status.C)
173
174 - reorganized directories:
175 classes describing the image --> mimage
176 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
177 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
178
179 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
180
181 - colors in logging output to screen
182
183 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
184 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
185 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
186 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
187 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
188
189 - reading of reflector files
190
191 - display data from reflector files in the camera
192
193 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
194
195 - logarithmic scale in camera
196
197 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
198
199
200
201 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
202
203 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
204
205 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
206 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
207 missing a single NN)
208
209 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
210 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
211 have any neighbour)
212
213 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
214 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
215 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
216 please ask Abelardo)
217
218 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
219 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
220
221 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
222
223 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
224 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
225 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
226 changed.
227
228 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
229 (MHMatrix)
230
231 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
232 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
233
234 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
235 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
236
237 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
238 event display gui.
239
240 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
241
242 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
243
244 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
245
246 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
247 to MHillas
248
249 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
250
251 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
252
253 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
254
255 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
256
257 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
258 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
259 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
260
261 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
262
263 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
264 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
265
266 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
267 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
268 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
269 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
270 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
271
272 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
273 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
274
275 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
276 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
277
278 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
279 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
280
281 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
282
283 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
284
285 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
286 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
287
288 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
289 (thanks to Raquel)
290
291 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
292 estfit.C) using a parametrization
293
294 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
295 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
296 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
297
298
299
300 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
301
302 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
303 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
304 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
305 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
306
307 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
308 for the collection area calculation
309
310 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
311 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
312
313 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
314 of one container
315
316 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
317 ascii file
318
319 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
320 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
321 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
322 hillas parameters)
323
324 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
325 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
326 see MHillas and MHillasExt
327
328 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
329 see MHillasSrc
330
331 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
332 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
333 all histograms)
334
335 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
336
337 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
338
339 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
340
341 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
342 an output stream instead of the whole container only
343
344 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
345 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
346
347 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
348 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
349
350 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
351 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
352
353 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
354
355 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
356 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
357 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
358
359 - Added:
360 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
361 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
362 they are needed in the flux calculation in
363 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
364 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
365 of Theta and the true energy
366
367 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
368 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
369 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
370 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
371 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
372 by unfolding
373
374 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
375
376
377
378 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
379
380 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
381 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
382 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
383
384 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
385
386 - Introduced verbosity levels
387
388 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
389
390 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
391 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
392
393 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
394 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
395
396 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
397
398 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
399
400 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
401 of a parameter container for each event
402
403 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
404
405 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
406
407 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
408 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
409 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
410
411 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
412 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
413 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
414
415
416
417 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
418
419 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
420
421 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
422 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
423
424 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
425 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
426 states
427
428 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
429 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
430
431 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
432
433 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
434 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
435
436 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
437 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
438
439 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
440 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
441 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
442
443 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
444 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
445
446 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
447 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
448
449 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
450 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
451
452
453
454 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
455
456 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
457
458 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
459
460 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
461
462 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
463
464 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
465
466 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
467
468 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
469
470 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
471
472 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
473 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
474
475
476
477 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
478
479 - Many demo macros added
480
481 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
482
483 - Hillas Calculation added
484
485 - Standard image cleaning available
486
487 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
488 (Remark: of the same structure)
489
490 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
491 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
492 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
493
494
495
496 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
497
498 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
499 gui with the command mars.
500
501
502
503 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
504
505 - First official release 0.1
506
507 - Changes:
508
509 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
510 while-loop
511
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