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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
5 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
6 and will replace them.
7
8 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
9
10 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
11 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
12 slices in the maximum window
13
14 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
15 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
16 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
17 studies.
18
19 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
20 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
21 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
22 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
23
24 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
25 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
26
27 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
28 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
29 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
30 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
31 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
32 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
33
34 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
35 macro pedphotcalc.C
36
37 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
38
39 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
40
41 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
42 minimizations
43
44 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
45 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
46
47 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
48
49 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
50 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
51 module
52
53 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
54 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
55
56 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
57
58 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
59
60 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
61
62 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
63
64 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
65
66 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
67 + MJPedestals
68 + MJCalibration
69 + MJExtractSignal
70 Note: All of them are preliminary!
71
72 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
73
74
75
76 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
77
78 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
79 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
80 camera version 0.7.
81
82 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
83 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
84
85 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
86
87 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
88 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
89 be done soon.
90
91 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
92 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
93
94 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
95 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
96 of time (readrep.C)
97
98 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
99 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
100 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
101
102 - Changed the name of the event trees:
103 + Events --> Events
104 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
105 + CalEvents --> Calibration
106
107 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
108
109 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
110
111 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
112 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
113
114 - added classes to calculate event rate
115 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
116
117 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
118
119 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
120
121 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
122 the new 'Synchonizer'
123
124
125
126 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
127
128 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
129 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
130 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
131
132 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
133 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
134 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
135
136 - added a new executable star which implements the
137 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
138 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
139
140 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
141 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
142 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
143
144 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
145 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
146
147 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
148
149
150
151 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
152
153 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
154 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
155 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
156 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
157
158 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
159 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
160
161 - added pedestal calculation
162
163 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
164 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
165
166 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
167
168 - added basic routines to apply padding
169
170 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
171 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
172
173 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
174 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
175
176 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
177 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
178
179 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
180 at all)
181
182 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
183 ignore files
184
185 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
186 to simulate the PMT camera
187
188 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
189 programs in the MC chain.
190
191 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
192 parameter in an eventloop.
193
194 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
195 location (Long, Lat, etc)
196
197 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
198
199 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
200 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
201
202 - added a new status display which can show the present status
203 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
204 an example can be found at status.C)
205
206 - reorganized directories:
207 classes describing the image --> mimage
208 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
209 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
210
211 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
212
213 - colors in logging output to screen
214
215 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
216 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
217 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
218 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
219 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
220
221 - reading of reflector files
222
223 - display data from reflector files in the camera
224
225 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
226
227 - logarithmic scale in camera
228
229 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
230
231
232
233 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
234
235 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
236
237 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
238 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
239 missing a single NN)
240
241 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
242 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
243 have any neighbour)
244
245 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
246 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
247 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
248 please ask Abelardo)
249
250 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
251 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
252
253 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
254
255 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
256 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
257 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
258 changed.
259
260 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
261 (MHMatrix)
262
263 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
264 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
265
266 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
267 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
268
269 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
270 event display gui.
271
272 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
273
274 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
275
276 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
277
278 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
279 to MHillas
280
281 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
282
283 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
284
285 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
286
287 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
288
289 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
290 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
291 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
292
293 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
294
295 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
296 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
297
298 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
299 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
300 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
301 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
302 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
303
304 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
305 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
306
307 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
308 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
309
310 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
311 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
312
313 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
314
315 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
316
317 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
318 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
319
320 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
321 (thanks to Raquel)
322
323 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
324 estfit.C) using a parametrization
325
326 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
327 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
328 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
329
330
331
332 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
333
334 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
335 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
336 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
337 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
338
339 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
340 for the collection area calculation
341
342 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
343 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
344
345 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
346 of one container
347
348 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
349 ascii file
350
351 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
352 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
353 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
354 hillas parameters)
355
356 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
357 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
358 see MHillas and MHillasExt
359
360 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
361 see MHillasSrc
362
363 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
364 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
365 all histograms)
366
367 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
368
369 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
370
371 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
372
373 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
374 an output stream instead of the whole container only
375
376 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
377 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
378
379 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
380 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
381
382 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
383 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
384
385 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
386
387 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
388 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
389 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
390
391 - Added:
392 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
393 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
394 they are needed in the flux calculation in
395 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
396 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
397 of Theta and the true energy
398
399 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
400 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
401 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
402 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
403 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
404 by unfolding
405
406 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
407
408
409
410 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
411
412 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
413 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
414 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
415
416 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
417
418 - Introduced verbosity levels
419
420 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
421
422 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
423 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
424
425 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
426 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
427
428 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
429
430 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
431
432 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
433 of a parameter container for each event
434
435 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
436
437 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
438
439 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
440 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
441 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
442
443 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
444 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
445 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
446
447
448
449 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
450
451 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
452
453 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
454 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
455
456 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
457 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
458 states
459
460 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
461 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
462
463 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
464
465 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
466 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
467
468 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
469 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
470
471 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
472 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
473 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
474
475 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
476 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
477
478 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
479 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
480
481 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
482 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
483
484
485
486 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
487
488 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
489
490 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
491
492 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
493
494 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
495
496 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
497
498 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
499
500 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
501
502 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
503
504 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
505 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
506
507
508
509 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
510
511 - Many demo macros added
512
513 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
514
515 - Hillas Calculation added
516
517 - Standard image cleaning available
518
519 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
520 (Remark: of the same structure)
521
522 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
523 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
524 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
525
526
527
528 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
529
530 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
531 gui with the command mars.
532
533
534
535 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
536
537 - First official release 0.1
538
539 - Changes:
540
541 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
542 while-loop
543
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