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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
5
6 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
7
8 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
9
10 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
11
12
13
14 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
15
16 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
17 ("pow(a, b)")
18
19 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
20 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
21
22 - added support in MF for expressiond like
23 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
24
25 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
26 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
27 is implemented through the new virtual function
28 MParContainer::SetVariables
29
30 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
31 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
32
33 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
34 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
35
36 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
37 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
38
39 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
40 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
41 and will replace them.
42
43 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
44
45 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
46 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
47 slices in the maximum window
48
49 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
50 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
51 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
52 studies.
53
54 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
55 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
56 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
57 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
58
59 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
60 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
61
62 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
63 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
64 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
65 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
66 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
67 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
68
69 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
70 macro pedphotcalc.C
71
72 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
73
74 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
75
76 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
77 minimizations
78
79 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
80 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
81
82 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
83
84 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
85 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
86 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
87
88 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
89 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
90
91 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
92 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
93
94 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
95
96 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
97
98 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
99
100 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
101
102 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
103
104 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
105 + MJPedestals
106 + MJCalibration
107 + MJExtractSignal
108 Note: All of them are preliminary!
109
110 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
111
112 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
113 the evolution of a sector vs time
114
115
116
117 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
118
119 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
120 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
121 camera version 0.7.
122
123 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
124 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
125
126 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
127
128 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
129 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
130 be done soon.
131
132 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
133 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
134
135 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
136 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
137 of time (readrep.C)
138
139 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
140 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
141 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
142
143 - Changed the name of the event trees:
144 + Events --> Events
145 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
146 + CalEvents --> Calibration
147
148 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
149
150 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
151
152 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
153 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
154
155 - added classes to calculate event rate
156 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
157
158 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
159
160 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
161
162 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
163 the new 'Synchonizer'
164
165
166
167 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
168
169 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
170 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
171 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
172
173 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
174 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
175 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
176
177 - added a new executable star which implements the
178 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
179 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
180
181 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
182 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
183 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
184
185 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
186 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
187
188 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
189
190
191
192 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
193
194 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
195 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
196 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
197 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
198
199 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
200 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
201
202 - added pedestal calculation
203
204 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
205 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
206
207 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
208
209 - added basic routines to apply padding
210
211 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
212 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
213
214 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
215 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
216
217 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
218 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
219
220 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
221 at all)
222
223 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
224 ignore files
225
226 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
227 to simulate the PMT camera
228
229 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
230 programs in the MC chain.
231
232 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
233 parameter in an eventloop.
234
235 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
236 location (Long, Lat, etc)
237
238 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
239
240 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
241 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
242
243 - added a new status display which can show the present status
244 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
245 an example can be found at status.C)
246
247 - reorganized directories:
248 classes describing the image --> mimage
249 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
250 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
251
252 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
253
254 - colors in logging output to screen
255
256 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
257 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
258 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
259 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
260 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
261
262 - reading of reflector files
263
264 - display data from reflector files in the camera
265
266 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
267
268 - logarithmic scale in camera
269
270 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
271
272
273
274 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
275
276 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
277
278 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
279 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
280 missing a single NN)
281
282 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
283 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
284 have any neighbour)
285
286 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
287 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
288 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
289 please ask Abelardo)
290
291 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
292 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
293
294 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
295
296 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
297 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
298 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
299 changed.
300
301 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
302 (MHMatrix)
303
304 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
305 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
306
307 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
308 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
309
310 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
311 event display gui.
312
313 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
314
315 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
316
317 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
318
319 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
320 to MHillas
321
322 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
323
324 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
325
326 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
327
328 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
329
330 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
331 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
332 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
333
334 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
335
336 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
337 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
338
339 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
340 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
341 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
342 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
343 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
344
345 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
346 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
347
348 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
349 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
350
351 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
352 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
353
354 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
355
356 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
357
358 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
359 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
360
361 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
362 (thanks to Raquel)
363
364 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
365 estfit.C) using a parametrization
366
367 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
368 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
369 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
370
371
372
373 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
374
375 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
376 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
377 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
378 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
379
380 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
381 for the collection area calculation
382
383 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
384 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
385
386 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
387 of one container
388
389 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
390 ascii file
391
392 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
393 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
394 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
395 hillas parameters)
396
397 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
398 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
399 see MHillas and MHillasExt
400
401 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
402 see MHillasSrc
403
404 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
405 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
406 all histograms)
407
408 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
409
410 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
411
412 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
413
414 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
415 an output stream instead of the whole container only
416
417 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
418 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
419
420 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
421 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
422
423 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
424 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
425
426 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
427
428 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
429 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
430 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
431
432 - Added:
433 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
434 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
435 they are needed in the flux calculation in
436 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
437 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
438 of Theta and the true energy
439
440 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
441 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
442 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
443 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
444 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
445 by unfolding
446
447 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
448
449
450
451 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
452
453 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
454 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
455 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
456
457 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
458
459 - Introduced verbosity levels
460
461 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
462
463 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
464 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
465
466 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
467 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
468
469 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
470
471 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
472
473 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
474 of a parameter container for each event
475
476 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
477
478 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
479
480 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
481 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
482 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
483
484 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
485 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
486 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
487
488
489
490 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
491
492 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
493
494 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
495 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
496
497 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
498 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
499 states
500
501 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
502 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
503
504 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
505
506 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
507 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
508
509 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
510 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
511
512 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
513 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
514 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
515
516 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
517 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
518
519 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
520 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
521
522 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
523 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
524
525
526
527 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
528
529 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
530
531 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
532
533 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
534
535 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
536
537 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
538
539 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
540
541 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
542
543 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
544
545 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
546 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
547
548
549
550 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
551
552 - Many demo macros added
553
554 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
555
556 - Hillas Calculation added
557
558 - Standard image cleaning available
559
560 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
561 (Remark: of the same structure)
562
563 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
564 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
565 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
566
567
568
569 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
570
571 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
572 gui with the command mars.
573
574
575
576 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
577
578 - First official release 0.1
579
580 - Changes:
581
582 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
583 while-loop
584
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