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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 from raw-data
50 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
51 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
52
53 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
54 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
55
56 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
57 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
58
59 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
60
61 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
62
63 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
64
65 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
66
67 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
68
69 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
70 + MJPedestals
71 + MJCalibration
72 + MJExtractSignal
73 Note: All of them are preliminary!
74
75 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
76
77
78
79 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
80
81 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
82 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
83 camera version 0.7.
84
85 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
86 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
87
88 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
89
90 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
91 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
92 be done soon.
93
94 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
95 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
96
97 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
98 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
99 of time (readrep.C)
100
101 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
102 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
103 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
104
105 - Changed the name of the event trees:
106 + Events --> Events
107 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
108 + CalEvents --> Calibration
109
110 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
111
112 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
113
114 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
115 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
116
117 - added classes to calculate event rate
118 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
119
120 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
121
122 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
123
124 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
125 the new 'Synchonizer'
126
127
128
129 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
130
131 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
132 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
133 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
134
135 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
136 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
137 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
138
139 - added a new executable star which implements the
140 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
141 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
142
143 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
144 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
145 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
146
147 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
148 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
149
150 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
151
152
153
154 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
155
156 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
157 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
158 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
159 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
160
161 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
162 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
163
164 - added pedestal calculation
165
166 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
167 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
168
169 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
170
171 - added basic routines to apply padding
172
173 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
174 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
175
176 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
177 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
178
179 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
180 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
181
182 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
183 at all)
184
185 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
186 ignore files
187
188 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
189 to simulate the PMT camera
190
191 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
192 programs in the MC chain.
193
194 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
195 parameter in an eventloop.
196
197 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
198 location (Long, Lat, etc)
199
200 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
201
202 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
203 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
204
205 - added a new status display which can show the present status
206 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
207 an example can be found at status.C)
208
209 - reorganized directories:
210 classes describing the image --> mimage
211 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
212 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
213
214 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
215
216 - colors in logging output to screen
217
218 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
219 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
220 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
221 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
222 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
223
224 - reading of reflector files
225
226 - display data from reflector files in the camera
227
228 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
229
230 - logarithmic scale in camera
231
232 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
233
234
235
236 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
237
238 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
239
240 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
241 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
242 missing a single NN)
243
244 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
245 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
246 have any neighbour)
247
248 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
249 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
250 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
251 please ask Abelardo)
252
253 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
254 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
255
256 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
257
258 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
259 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
260 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
261 changed.
262
263 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
264 (MHMatrix)
265
266 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
267 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
268
269 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
270 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
271
272 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
273 event display gui.
274
275 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
276
277 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
278
279 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
280
281 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
282 to MHillas
283
284 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
285
286 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
287
288 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
289
290 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
291
292 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
293 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
294 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
295
296 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
297
298 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
299 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
300
301 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
302 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
303 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
304 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
305 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
306
307 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
308 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
309
310 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
311 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
312
313 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
314 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
315
316 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
317
318 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
319
320 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
321 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
322
323 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
324 (thanks to Raquel)
325
326 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
327 estfit.C) using a parametrization
328
329 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
330 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
331 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
332
333
334
335 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
336
337 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
338 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
339 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
340 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
341
342 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
343 for the collection area calculation
344
345 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
346 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
347
348 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
349 of one container
350
351 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
352 ascii file
353
354 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
355 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
356 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
357 hillas parameters)
358
359 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
360 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
361 see MHillas and MHillasExt
362
363 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
364 see MHillasSrc
365
366 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
367 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
368 all histograms)
369
370 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
371
372 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
373
374 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
375
376 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
377 an output stream instead of the whole container only
378
379 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
380 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
381
382 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
383 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
384
385 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
386 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
387
388 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
389
390 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
391 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
392 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
393
394 - Added:
395 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
396 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
397 they are needed in the flux calculation in
398 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
399 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
400 of Theta and the true energy
401
402 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
403 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
404 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
405 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
406 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
407 by unfolding
408
409 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
410
411
412
413 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
414
415 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
416 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
417 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
418
419 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
420
421 - Introduced verbosity levels
422
423 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
424
425 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
426 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
427
428 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
429 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
430
431 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
432
433 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
434
435 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
436 of a parameter container for each event
437
438 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
439
440 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
441
442 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
443 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
444 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
445
446 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
447 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
448 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
449
450
451
452 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
453
454 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
455
456 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
457 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
458
459 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
460 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
461 states
462
463 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
464 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
465
466 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
467
468 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
469 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
470
471 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
472 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
473
474 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
475 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
476 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
477
478 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
479 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
480
481 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
482 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
483
484 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
485 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
486
487
488
489 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
490
491 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
492
493 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
494
495 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
496
497 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
498
499 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
500
501 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
502
503 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
504
505 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
506
507 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
508 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
509
510
511
512 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
513
514 - Many demo macros added
515
516 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
517
518 - Hillas Calculation added
519
520 - Standard image cleaning available
521
522 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
523 (Remark: of the same structure)
524
525 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
526 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
527 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
528
529
530
531 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
532
533 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
534 gui with the command mars.
535
536
537
538 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
539
540 - First official release 0.1
541
542 - Changes:
543
544 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
545 while-loop
546
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