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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics:
5 To be used together with MContinue
6
7 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
8 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
9 slices in the maximum window
10
11 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
12 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
13 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
14 studies.
15
16 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
17 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
18 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
19 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
20
21 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
22 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
23
24 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
25 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
26 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
27 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
28 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
29 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
30
31 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
32 macro pedphotcalc.C
33
34 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
35
36 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
37
38 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
39 minimizations
40
41 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
42 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
43
44 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
45
46 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
47 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
48 module
49
50 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
51 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
52
53 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
54
55 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
56
57 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
58
59 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
60
61 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
62
63 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
64 + MJPedestals
65 + MJCalibration
66 + MJExtractSignal
67 Note: All of them are preliminary!
68
69 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
70
71
72
73 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
74
75 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
76 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
77 camera version 0.7.
78
79 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
80 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
81
82 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
83
84 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
85 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
86 be done soon.
87
88 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
89 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
90
91 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
92 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
93 of time (readrep.C)
94
95 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
96 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
97 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
98
99 - Changed the name of the event trees:
100 + Events --> Events
101 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
102 + CalEvents --> Calibration
103
104 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
105
106 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
107
108 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
109 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
110
111 - added classes to calculate event rate
112 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
113
114 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
115
116 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
117
118 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
119 the new 'Synchonizer'
120
121
122
123 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
124
125 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
126 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
127 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
128
129 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
130 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
131 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
132
133 - added a new executable star which implements the
134 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
135 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
136
137 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
138 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
139 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
140
141 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
142 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
143
144 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
145
146
147
148 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
149
150 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
151 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
152 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
153 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
154
155 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
156 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
157
158 - added pedestal calculation
159
160 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
161 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
162
163 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
164
165 - added basic routines to apply padding
166
167 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
168 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
169
170 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
171 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
172
173 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
174 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
175
176 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
177 at all)
178
179 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
180 ignore files
181
182 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
183 to simulate the PMT camera
184
185 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
186 programs in the MC chain.
187
188 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
189 parameter in an eventloop.
190
191 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
192 location (Long, Lat, etc)
193
194 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
195
196 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
197 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
198
199 - added a new status display which can show the present status
200 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
201 an example can be found at status.C)
202
203 - reorganized directories:
204 classes describing the image --> mimage
205 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
206 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
207
208 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
209
210 - colors in logging output to screen
211
212 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
213 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
214 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
215 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
216 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
217
218 - reading of reflector files
219
220 - display data from reflector files in the camera
221
222 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
223
224 - logarithmic scale in camera
225
226 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
227
228
229
230 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
231
232 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
233
234 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
235 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
236 missing a single NN)
237
238 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
239 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
240 have any neighbour)
241
242 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
243 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
244 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
245 please ask Abelardo)
246
247 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
248 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
249
250 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
251
252 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
253 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
254 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
255 changed.
256
257 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
258 (MHMatrix)
259
260 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
261 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
262
263 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
264 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
265
266 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
267 event display gui.
268
269 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
270
271 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
272
273 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
274
275 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
276 to MHillas
277
278 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
279
280 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
281
282 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
283
284 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
285
286 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
287 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
288 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
289
290 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
291
292 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
293 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
294
295 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
296 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
297 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
298 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
299 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
300
301 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
302 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
303
304 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
305 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
306
307 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
308 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
309
310 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
311
312 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
313
314 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
315 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
316
317 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
318 (thanks to Raquel)
319
320 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
321 estfit.C) using a parametrization
322
323 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
324 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
325 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
326
327
328
329 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
330
331 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
332 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
333 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
334 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
335
336 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
337 for the collection area calculation
338
339 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
340 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
341
342 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
343 of one container
344
345 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
346 ascii file
347
348 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
349 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
350 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
351 hillas parameters)
352
353 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
354 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
355 see MHillas and MHillasExt
356
357 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
358 see MHillasSrc
359
360 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
361 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
362 all histograms)
363
364 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
365
366 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
367
368 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
369
370 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
371 an output stream instead of the whole container only
372
373 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
374 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
375
376 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
377 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
378
379 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
380 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
381
382 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
383
384 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
385 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
386 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
387
388 - Added:
389 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
390 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
391 they are needed in the flux calculation in
392 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
393 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
394 of Theta and the true energy
395
396 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
397 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
398 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
399 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
400 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
401 by unfolding
402
403 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
404
405
406
407 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
408
409 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
410 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
411 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
412
413 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
414
415 - Introduced verbosity levels
416
417 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
418
419 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
420 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
421
422 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
423 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
424
425 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
426
427 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
428
429 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
430 of a parameter container for each event
431
432 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
433
434 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
435
436 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
437 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
438 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
439
440 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
441 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
442 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
443
444
445
446 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
447
448 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
449
450 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
451 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
452
453 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
454 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
455 states
456
457 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
458 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
459
460 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
461
462 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
463 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
464
465 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
466 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
467
468 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
469 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
470 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
471
472 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
473 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
474
475 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
476 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
477
478 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
479 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
480
481
482
483 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
484
485 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
486
487 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
488
489 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
490
491 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
492
493 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
494
495 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
496
497 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
498
499 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
500
501 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
502 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
503
504
505
506 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
507
508 - Many demo macros added
509
510 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
511
512 - Hillas Calculation added
513
514 - Standard image cleaning available
515
516 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
517 (Remark: of the same structure)
518
519 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
520 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
521 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
522
523
524
525 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
526
527 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
528 gui with the command mars.
529
530
531
532 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
533
534 - First official release 0.1
535
536 - Changes:
537
538 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
539 while-loop
540
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