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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
5 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
6
7 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
8 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
9
10 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
11 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
12
13 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
14 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
15 and will replace them.
16
17 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
18
19 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
20 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
21 slices in the maximum window
22
23 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
24 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
25 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
26 studies.
27
28 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
29 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
30 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
31 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
32
33 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
34 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
35
36 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
37 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
38 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
39 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
40 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
41 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
42
43 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
44 macro pedphotcalc.C
45
46 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
47
48 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
49
50 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
51 minimizations
52
53 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
54 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
55
56 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
57
58 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
59 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
60 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
61
62 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
63 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
64
65 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
66 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
67
68 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
69
70 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
71
72 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
73
74 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
75
76 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
77
78 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
79 + MJPedestals
80 + MJCalibration
81 + MJExtractSignal
82 Note: All of them are preliminary!
83
84 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
85
86
87
88 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
89
90 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
91 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
92 camera version 0.7.
93
94 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
95 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
96
97 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
98
99 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
100 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
101 be done soon.
102
103 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
104 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
105
106 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
107 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
108 of time (readrep.C)
109
110 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
111 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
112 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
113
114 - Changed the name of the event trees:
115 + Events --> Events
116 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
117 + CalEvents --> Calibration
118
119 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
120
121 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
122
123 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
124 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
125
126 - added classes to calculate event rate
127 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
128
129 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
130
131 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
132
133 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
134 the new 'Synchonizer'
135
136
137
138 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
139
140 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
141 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
142 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
143
144 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
145 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
146 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
147
148 - added a new executable star which implements the
149 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
150 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
151
152 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
153 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
154 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
155
156 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
157 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
158
159 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
160
161
162
163 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
164
165 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
166 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
167 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
168 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
169
170 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
171 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
172
173 - added pedestal calculation
174
175 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
176 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
177
178 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
179
180 - added basic routines to apply padding
181
182 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
183 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
184
185 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
186 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
187
188 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
189 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
190
191 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
192 at all)
193
194 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
195 ignore files
196
197 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
198 to simulate the PMT camera
199
200 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
201 programs in the MC chain.
202
203 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
204 parameter in an eventloop.
205
206 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
207 location (Long, Lat, etc)
208
209 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
210
211 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
212 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
213
214 - added a new status display which can show the present status
215 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
216 an example can be found at status.C)
217
218 - reorganized directories:
219 classes describing the image --> mimage
220 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
221 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
222
223 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
224
225 - colors in logging output to screen
226
227 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
228 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
229 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
230 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
231 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
232
233 - reading of reflector files
234
235 - display data from reflector files in the camera
236
237 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
238
239 - logarithmic scale in camera
240
241 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
242
243
244
245 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
246
247 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
248
249 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
250 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
251 missing a single NN)
252
253 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
254 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
255 have any neighbour)
256
257 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
258 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
259 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
260 please ask Abelardo)
261
262 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
263 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
264
265 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
266
267 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
268 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
269 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
270 changed.
271
272 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
273 (MHMatrix)
274
275 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
276 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
277
278 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
279 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
280
281 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
282 event display gui.
283
284 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
285
286 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
287
288 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
289
290 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
291 to MHillas
292
293 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
294
295 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
296
297 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
298
299 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
300
301 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
302 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
303 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
304
305 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
306
307 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
308 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
309
310 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
311 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
312 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
313 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
314 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
315
316 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
317 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
318
319 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
320 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
321
322 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
323 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
324
325 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
326
327 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
328
329 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
330 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
331
332 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
333 (thanks to Raquel)
334
335 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
336 estfit.C) using a parametrization
337
338 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
339 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
340 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
341
342
343
344 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
345
346 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
347 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
348 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
349 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
350
351 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
352 for the collection area calculation
353
354 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
355 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
356
357 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
358 of one container
359
360 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
361 ascii file
362
363 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
364 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
365 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
366 hillas parameters)
367
368 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
369 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
370 see MHillas and MHillasExt
371
372 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
373 see MHillasSrc
374
375 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
376 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
377 all histograms)
378
379 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
380
381 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
382
383 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
384
385 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
386 an output stream instead of the whole container only
387
388 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
389 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
390
391 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
392 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
393
394 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
395 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
396
397 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
398
399 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
400 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
401 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
402
403 - Added:
404 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
405 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
406 they are needed in the flux calculation in
407 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
408 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
409 of Theta and the true energy
410
411 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
412 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
413 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
414 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
415 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
416 by unfolding
417
418 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
419
420
421
422 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
423
424 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
425 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
426 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
427
428 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
429
430 - Introduced verbosity levels
431
432 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
433
434 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
435 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
436
437 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
438 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
439
440 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
441
442 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
443
444 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
445 of a parameter container for each event
446
447 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
448
449 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
450
451 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
452 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
453 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
454
455 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
456 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
457 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
458
459
460
461 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
462
463 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
464
465 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
466 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
467
468 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
469 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
470 states
471
472 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
473 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
474
475 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
476
477 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
478 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
479
480 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
481 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
482
483 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
484 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
485 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
486
487 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
488 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
489
490 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
491 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
492
493 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
494 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
495
496
497
498 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
499
500 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
501
502 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
503
504 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
505
506 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
507
508 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
509
510 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
511
512 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
513
514 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
515
516 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
517 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
518
519
520
521 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
522
523 - Many demo macros added
524
525 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
526
527 - Hillas Calculation added
528
529 - Standard image cleaning available
530
531 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
532 (Remark: of the same structure)
533
534 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
535 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
536 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
537
538
539
540 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
541
542 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
543 gui with the command mars.
544
545
546
547 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
548
549 - First official release 0.1
550
551 - Changes:
552
553 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
554 while-loop
555
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