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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
5 nd MExtractAmplitudeSpline
6
7 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
8
9 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
10
11 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
12
13 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
14
15
16 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
17
18 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
19 MExtractTimeFastSpline
20
21 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
22 ("pow(a, b)")
23
24 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
25 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
26
27 - added support in MF for expressiond like
28 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
29
30 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
31 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
32 is implemented through the new virtual function
33 MParContainer::SetVariables
34
35 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
36 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
37
38 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
39 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
40
41 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
42 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
43
44 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
45 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
46 and will replace them.
47
48 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
49
50 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
51 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
52 slices in the maximum window
53
54 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
55 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
56 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
57 studies.
58
59 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
60 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
61 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
62 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
63
64 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
65 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
66
67 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
68 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
69 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
70 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
71 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
72 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
73
74 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
75 macro pedphotcalc.C
76
77 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
78
79 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
80
81 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
82 minimizations
83
84 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
85 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
86
87 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
88
89 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
90 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
91 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
92
93 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
94 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
95
96 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
97 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
98
99 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
100
101 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
102
103 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
104
105 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
106
107 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
108
109 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
110 + MJPedestals
111 + MJCalibration
112 + MJExtractSignal
113 Note: All of them are preliminary!
114
115 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
116
117 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
118 the evolution of a sector vs time
119
120
121
122 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
123
124 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
125 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
126 camera version 0.7.
127
128 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
129 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
130
131 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
132
133 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
134 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
135 be done soon.
136
137 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
138 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
139
140 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
141 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
142 of time (readrep.C)
143
144 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
145 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
146 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
147
148 - Changed the name of the event trees:
149 + Events --> Events
150 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
151 + CalEvents --> Calibration
152
153 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
154
155 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
156
157 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
158 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
159
160 - added classes to calculate event rate
161 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
162
163 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
164
165 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
166
167 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
168 the new 'Synchonizer'
169
170
171
172 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
173
174 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
175 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
176 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
177
178 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
179 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
180 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
181
182 - added a new executable star which implements the
183 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
184 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
185
186 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
187 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
188 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
189
190 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
191 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
192
193 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
194
195
196
197 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
198
199 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
200 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
201 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
202 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
203
204 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
205 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
206
207 - added pedestal calculation
208
209 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
210 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
211
212 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
213
214 - added basic routines to apply padding
215
216 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
217 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
218
219 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
220 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
221
222 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
223 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
224
225 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
226 at all)
227
228 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
229 ignore files
230
231 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
232 to simulate the PMT camera
233
234 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
235 programs in the MC chain.
236
237 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
238 parameter in an eventloop.
239
240 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
241 location (Long, Lat, etc)
242
243 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
244
245 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
246 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
247
248 - added a new status display which can show the present status
249 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
250 an example can be found at status.C)
251
252 - reorganized directories:
253 classes describing the image --> mimage
254 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
255 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
256
257 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
258
259 - colors in logging output to screen
260
261 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
262 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
263 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
264 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
265 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
266
267 - reading of reflector files
268
269 - display data from reflector files in the camera
270
271 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
272
273 - logarithmic scale in camera
274
275 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
276
277
278
279 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
280
281 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
282
283 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
284 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
285 missing a single NN)
286
287 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
288 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
289 have any neighbour)
290
291 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
292 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
293 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
294 please ask Abelardo)
295
296 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
297 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
298
299 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
300
301 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
302 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
303 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
304 changed.
305
306 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
307 (MHMatrix)
308
309 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
310 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
311
312 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
313 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
314
315 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
316 event display gui.
317
318 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
319
320 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
321
322 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
323
324 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
325 to MHillas
326
327 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
328
329 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
330
331 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
332
333 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
334
335 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
336 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
337 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
338
339 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
340
341 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
342 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
343
344 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
345 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
346 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
347 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
348 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
349
350 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
351 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
352
353 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
354 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
355
356 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
357 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
358
359 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
360
361 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
362
363 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
364 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
365
366 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
367 (thanks to Raquel)
368
369 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
370 estfit.C) using a parametrization
371
372 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
373 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
374 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
375
376
377
378 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
379
380 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
381 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
382 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
383 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
384
385 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
386 for the collection area calculation
387
388 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
389 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
390
391 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
392 of one container
393
394 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
395 ascii file
396
397 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
398 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
399 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
400 hillas parameters)
401
402 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
403 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
404 see MHillas and MHillasExt
405
406 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
407 see MHillasSrc
408
409 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
410 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
411 all histograms)
412
413 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
414
415 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
416
417 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
418
419 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
420 an output stream instead of the whole container only
421
422 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
423 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
424
425 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
426 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
427
428 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
429 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
430
431 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
432
433 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
434 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
435 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
436
437 - Added:
438 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
439 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
440 they are needed in the flux calculation in
441 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
442 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
443 of Theta and the true energy
444
445 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
446 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
447 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
448 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
449 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
450 by unfolding
451
452 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
453
454
455
456 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
457
458 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
459 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
460 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
461
462 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
463
464 - Introduced verbosity levels
465
466 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
467
468 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
469 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
470
471 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
472 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
473
474 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
475
476 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
477
478 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
479 of a parameter container for each event
480
481 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
482
483 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
484
485 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
486 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
487 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
488
489 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
490 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
491 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
492
493
494
495 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
496
497 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
498
499 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
500 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
501
502 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
503 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
504 states
505
506 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
507 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
508
509 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
510
511 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
512 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
513
514 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
515 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
516
517 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
518 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
519 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
520
521 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
522 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
523
524 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
525 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
526
527 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
528 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
529
530
531
532 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
533
534 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
535
536 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
537
538 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
539
540 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
541
542 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
543
544 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
545
546 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
547
548 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
549
550 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
551 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
552
553
554
555 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
556
557 - Many demo macros added
558
559 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
560
561 - Hillas Calculation added
562
563 - Standard image cleaning available
564
565 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
566 (Remark: of the same structure)
567
568 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
569 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
570 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
571
572
573
574 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
575
576 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
577 gui with the command mars.
578
579
580
581 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
582
583 - First official release 0.1
584
585 - Changes:
586
587 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
588 while-loop
589
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