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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 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
43
44
45
46 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
47
48 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
49 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
50 camera version 0.7.
51
52 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
53 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
54
55 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
56
57 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
58 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
59 be done soon.
60
61 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
62 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
63
64 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
65 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
66 of time (readrep.C)
67
68 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
69 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
70 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
71
72 - Changed the name of the event trees:
73 + Events --> Events
74 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
75 + CalEvents --> Calibration
76
77 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
78
79 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
80
81 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
82 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
83
84 - added classes to calculate event rate
85 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
86
87 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
88
89 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
90
91 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
92 the new 'Synchonizer'
93
94
95
96 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
97
98 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
99 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
100 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
101
102 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
103 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
104 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
105
106 - added a new executable star which implements the
107 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
108 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
109
110 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
111 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
112 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
113
114 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
115 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
116
117 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
118
119
120
121 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
122
123 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
124 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
125 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
126 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
127
128 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
129 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
130
131 - added pedestal calculation
132
133 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
134 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
135
136 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
137
138 - added basic routines to apply padding
139
140 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
141 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
142
143 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
144 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
145
146 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
147 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
148
149 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
150 at all)
151
152 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
153 ignore files
154
155 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
156 to simulate the PMT camera
157
158 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
159 programs in the MC chain.
160
161 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
162 parameter in an eventloop.
163
164 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
165 location (Long, Lat, etc)
166
167 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
168
169 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
170 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
171
172 - added a new status display which can show the present status
173 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
174 an example can be found at status.C)
175
176 - reorganized directories:
177 classes describing the image --> mimage
178 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
179 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
180
181 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
182
183 - colors in logging output to screen
184
185 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
186 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
187 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
188 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
189 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
190
191 - reading of reflector files
192
193 - display data from reflector files in the camera
194
195 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
196
197 - logarithmic scale in camera
198
199 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
200
201
202
203 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
204
205 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
206
207 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
208 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
209 missing a single NN)
210
211 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
212 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
213 have any neighbour)
214
215 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
216 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
217 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
218 please ask Abelardo)
219
220 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
221 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
222
223 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
224
225 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
226 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
227 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
228 changed.
229
230 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
231 (MHMatrix)
232
233 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
234 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
235
236 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
237 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
238
239 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
240 event display gui.
241
242 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
243
244 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
245
246 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
247
248 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
249 to MHillas
250
251 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
252
253 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
254
255 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
256
257 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
258
259 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
260 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
261 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
262
263 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
264
265 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
266 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
267
268 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
269 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
270 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
271 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
272 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
273
274 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
275 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
276
277 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
278 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
279
280 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
281 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
282
283 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
284
285 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
286
287 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
288 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
289
290 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
291 (thanks to Raquel)
292
293 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
294 estfit.C) using a parametrization
295
296 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
297 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
298 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
299
300
301
302 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
303
304 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
305 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
306 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
307 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
308
309 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
310 for the collection area calculation
311
312 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
313 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
314
315 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
316 of one container
317
318 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
319 ascii file
320
321 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
322 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
323 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
324 hillas parameters)
325
326 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
327 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
328 see MHillas and MHillasExt
329
330 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
331 see MHillasSrc
332
333 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
334 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
335 all histograms)
336
337 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
338
339 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
340
341 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
342
343 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
344 an output stream instead of the whole container only
345
346 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
347 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
348
349 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
350 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
351
352 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
353 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
354
355 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
356
357 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
358 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
359 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
360
361 - Added:
362 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
363 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
364 they are needed in the flux calculation in
365 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
366 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
367 of Theta and the true energy
368
369 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
370 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
371 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
372 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
373 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
374 by unfolding
375
376 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
377
378
379
380 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
381
382 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
383 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
384 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
385
386 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
387
388 - Introduced verbosity levels
389
390 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
391
392 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
393 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
394
395 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
396 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
397
398 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
399
400 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
401
402 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
403 of a parameter container for each event
404
405 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
406
407 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
408
409 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
410 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
411 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
412
413 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
414 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
415 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
416
417
418
419 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
420
421 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
422
423 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
424 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
425
426 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
427 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
428 states
429
430 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
431 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
432
433 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
434
435 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
436 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
437
438 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
439 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
440
441 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
442 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
443 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
444
445 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
446 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
447
448 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
449 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
450
451 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
452 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
453
454
455
456 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
457
458 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
459
460 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
461
462 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
463
464 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
465
466 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
467
468 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
469
470 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
471
472 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
473
474 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
475 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
476
477
478
479 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
480
481 - Many demo macros added
482
483 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
484
485 - Hillas Calculation added
486
487 - Standard image cleaning available
488
489 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
490 (Remark: of the same structure)
491
492 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
493 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
494 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
495
496
497
498 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
499
500 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
501 gui with the command mars.
502
503
504
505 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
506
507 - First official release 0.1
508
509 - Changes:
510
511 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
512 while-loop
513
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