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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
5 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
6 slices in the maximum window
7
8 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
9 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
10 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
11 studies.
12
13 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
14 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
15 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
16 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
17
18 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
19 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
20
21 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
22 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
23 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
24 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
25 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
26 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
27
28 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
29 macro pedphotcalc.C
30
31 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
32
33 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
34
35 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
36 minimizations
37
38 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
39 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
40
41 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
42
43 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
44 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
45 module
46
47 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
48 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
49
50 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
51
52 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
53
54 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
55
56 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
57
58 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
59
60 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
61 + MJPedestals
62 + MJCalibration
63 + MJExtractSignal
64 Note: All of them are preliminary!
65
66 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
67
68
69
70 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
71
72 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
73 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
74 camera version 0.7.
75
76 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
77 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
78
79 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
80
81 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
82 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
83 be done soon.
84
85 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
86 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
87
88 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
89 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
90 of time (readrep.C)
91
92 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
93 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
94 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
95
96 - Changed the name of the event trees:
97 + Events --> Events
98 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
99 + CalEvents --> Calibration
100
101 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
102
103 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
104
105 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
106 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
107
108 - added classes to calculate event rate
109 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
110
111 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
112
113 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
114
115 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
116 the new 'Synchonizer'
117
118
119
120 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
121
122 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
123 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
124 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
125
126 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
127 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
128 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
129
130 - added a new executable star which implements the
131 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
132 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
133
134 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
135 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
136 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
137
138 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
139 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
140
141 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
142
143
144
145 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
146
147 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
148 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
149 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
150 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
151
152 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
153 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
154
155 - added pedestal calculation
156
157 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
158 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
159
160 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
161
162 - added basic routines to apply padding
163
164 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
165 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
166
167 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
168 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
169
170 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
171 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
172
173 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
174 at all)
175
176 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
177 ignore files
178
179 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
180 to simulate the PMT camera
181
182 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
183 programs in the MC chain.
184
185 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
186 parameter in an eventloop.
187
188 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
189 location (Long, Lat, etc)
190
191 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
192
193 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
194 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
195
196 - added a new status display which can show the present status
197 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
198 an example can be found at status.C)
199
200 - reorganized directories:
201 classes describing the image --> mimage
202 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
203 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
204
205 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
206
207 - colors in logging output to screen
208
209 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
210 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
211 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
212 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
213 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
214
215 - reading of reflector files
216
217 - display data from reflector files in the camera
218
219 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
220
221 - logarithmic scale in camera
222
223 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
224
225
226
227 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
228
229 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
230
231 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
232 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
233 missing a single NN)
234
235 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
236 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
237 have any neighbour)
238
239 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
240 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
241 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
242 please ask Abelardo)
243
244 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
245 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
246
247 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
248
249 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
250 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
251 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
252 changed.
253
254 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
255 (MHMatrix)
256
257 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
258 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
259
260 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
261 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
262
263 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
264 event display gui.
265
266 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
267
268 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
269
270 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
271
272 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
273 to MHillas
274
275 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
276
277 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
278
279 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
280
281 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
282
283 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
284 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
285 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
286
287 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
288
289 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
290 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
291
292 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
293 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
294 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
295 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
296 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
297
298 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
299 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
300
301 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
302 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
303
304 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
305 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
306
307 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
308
309 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
310
311 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
312 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
313
314 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
315 (thanks to Raquel)
316
317 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
318 estfit.C) using a parametrization
319
320 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
321 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
322 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
323
324
325
326 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
327
328 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
329 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
330 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
331 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
332
333 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
334 for the collection area calculation
335
336 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
337 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
338
339 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
340 of one container
341
342 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
343 ascii file
344
345 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
346 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
347 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
348 hillas parameters)
349
350 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
351 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
352 see MHillas and MHillasExt
353
354 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
355 see MHillasSrc
356
357 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
358 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
359 all histograms)
360
361 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
362
363 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
364
365 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
366
367 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
368 an output stream instead of the whole container only
369
370 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
371 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
372
373 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
374 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
375
376 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
377 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
378
379 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
380
381 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
382 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
383 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
384
385 - Added:
386 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
387 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
388 they are needed in the flux calculation in
389 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
390 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
391 of Theta and the true energy
392
393 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
394 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
395 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
396 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
397 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
398 by unfolding
399
400 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
401
402
403
404 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
405
406 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
407 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
408 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
409
410 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
411
412 - Introduced verbosity levels
413
414 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
415
416 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
417 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
418
419 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
420 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
421
422 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
423
424 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
425
426 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
427 of a parameter container for each event
428
429 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
430
431 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
432
433 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
434 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
435 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
436
437 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
438 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
439 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
440
441
442
443 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
444
445 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
446
447 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
448 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
449
450 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
451 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
452 states
453
454 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
455 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
456
457 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
458
459 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
460 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
461
462 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
463 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
464
465 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
466 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
467 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
468
469 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
470 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
471
472 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
473 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
474
475 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
476 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
477
478
479
480 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
481
482 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
483
484 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
485
486 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
487
488 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
489
490 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
491
492 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
493
494 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
495
496 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
497
498 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
499 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
500
501
502
503 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
504
505 - Many demo macros added
506
507 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
508
509 - Hillas Calculation added
510
511 - Standard image cleaning available
512
513 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
514 (Remark: of the same structure)
515
516 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
517 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
518 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
519
520
521
522 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
523
524 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
525 gui with the command mars.
526
527
528
529 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
530
531 - First official release 0.1
532
533 - Changes:
534
535 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
536 while-loop
537
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