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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 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
16 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
17 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
18
19 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
20
21 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
22 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
23 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
24
25 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
26 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
27
28 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
29
30
31
32 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
33
34 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
35 MExtractTimeFastSpline
36
37 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
38 ("pow(a, b)")
39
40 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
41 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
42
43 - added support in MF for expressiond like
44 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
45
46 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
47 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
48 is implemented through the new virtual function
49 MParContainer::SetVariables
50
51 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
52 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
53
54 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
55 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
56
57 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
58 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
59
60 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
61 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
62 and will replace them.
63
64 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
65
66 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
67 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
68 slices in the maximum window
69
70 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
71 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
72 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
73 studies.
74
75 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
76 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
77 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
78 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
79
80 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
81 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
82
83 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
84 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
85 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
86 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
87 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
88 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
89
90 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
91 macro pedphotcalc.C
92
93 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
94
95 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
96
97 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
98 minimizations
99
100 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
101 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
102
103 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
104
105 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
106 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
107 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
108
109 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
110 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
111
112 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
113 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
114
115 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
116
117 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
118
119 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
120
121 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
122
123 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
124
125 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
126 + MJPedestals
127 + MJCalibration
128 + MJExtractSignal
129 Note: All of them are preliminary!
130
131 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
132
133 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
134 the evolution of a sector vs time
135
136
137
138 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
139
140 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
141 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
142 camera version 0.7.
143
144 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
145 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
146
147 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
148
149 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
150 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
151 be done soon.
152
153 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
154 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
155
156 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
157 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
158 of time (readrep.C)
159
160 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
161 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
162 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
163
164 - Changed the name of the event trees:
165 + Events --> Events
166 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
167 + CalEvents --> Calibration
168
169 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
170
171 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
172
173 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
174 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
175
176 - added classes to calculate event rate
177 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
178
179 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
180
181 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
182
183 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
184 the new 'Synchonizer'
185
186
187
188 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
189
190 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
191 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
192 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
193
194 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
195 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
196 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
197
198 - added a new executable star which implements the
199 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
200 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
201
202 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
203 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
204 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
205
206 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
207 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
208
209 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
210
211
212
213 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
214
215 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
216 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
217 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
218 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
219
220 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
221 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
222
223 - added pedestal calculation
224
225 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
226 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
227
228 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
229
230 - added basic routines to apply padding
231
232 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
233 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
234
235 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
236 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
237
238 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
239 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
240
241 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
242 at all)
243
244 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
245 ignore files
246
247 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
248 to simulate the PMT camera
249
250 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
251 programs in the MC chain.
252
253 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
254 parameter in an eventloop.
255
256 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
257 location (Long, Lat, etc)
258
259 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
260
261 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
262 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
263
264 - added a new status display which can show the present status
265 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
266 an example can be found at status.C)
267
268 - reorganized directories:
269 classes describing the image --> mimage
270 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
271 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
272
273 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
274
275 - colors in logging output to screen
276
277 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
278 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
279 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
280 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
281 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
282
283 - reading of reflector files
284
285 - display data from reflector files in the camera
286
287 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
288
289 - logarithmic scale in camera
290
291 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
292
293
294
295 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
296
297 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
298
299 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
300 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
301 missing a single NN)
302
303 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
304 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
305 have any neighbour)
306
307 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
308 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
309 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
310 please ask Abelardo)
311
312 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
313 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
314
315 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
316
317 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
318 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
319 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
320 changed.
321
322 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
323 (MHMatrix)
324
325 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
326 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
327
328 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
329 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
330
331 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
332 event display gui.
333
334 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
335
336 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
337
338 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
339
340 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
341 to MHillas
342
343 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
344
345 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
346
347 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
348
349 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
350
351 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
352 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
353 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
354
355 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
356
357 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
358 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
359
360 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
361 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
362 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
363 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
364 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
365
366 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
367 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
368
369 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
370 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
371
372 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
373 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
374
375 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
376
377 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
378
379 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
380 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
381
382 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
383 (thanks to Raquel)
384
385 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
386 estfit.C) using a parametrization
387
388 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
389 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
390 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
391
392
393
394 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
395
396 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
397 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
398 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
399 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
400
401 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
402 for the collection area calculation
403
404 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
405 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
406
407 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
408 of one container
409
410 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
411 ascii file
412
413 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
414 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
415 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
416 hillas parameters)
417
418 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
419 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
420 see MHillas and MHillasExt
421
422 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
423 see MHillasSrc
424
425 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
426 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
427 all histograms)
428
429 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
430
431 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
432
433 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
434
435 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
436 an output stream instead of the whole container only
437
438 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
439 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
440
441 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
442 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
443
444 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
445 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
446
447 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
448
449 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
450 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
451 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
452
453 - Added:
454 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
455 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
456 they are needed in the flux calculation in
457 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
458 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
459 of Theta and the true energy
460
461 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
462 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
463 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
464 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
465 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
466 by unfolding
467
468 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
469
470
471
472 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
473
474 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
475 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
476 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
477
478 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
479
480 - Introduced verbosity levels
481
482 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
483
484 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
485 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
486
487 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
488 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
489
490 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
491
492 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
493
494 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
495 of a parameter container for each event
496
497 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
498
499 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
500
501 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
502 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
503 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
504
505 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
506 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
507 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
508
509
510
511 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
512
513 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
514
515 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
516 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
517
518 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
519 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
520 states
521
522 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
523 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
524
525 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
526
527 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
528 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
529
530 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
531 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
532
533 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
534 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
535 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
536
537 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
538 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
539
540 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
541 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
542
543 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
544 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
545
546
547
548 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
549
550 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
551
552 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
553
554 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
555
556 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
557
558 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
559
560 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
561
562 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
563
564 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
565
566 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
567 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
568
569
570
571 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
572
573 - Many demo macros added
574
575 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
576
577 - Hillas Calculation added
578
579 - Standard image cleaning available
580
581 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
582 (Remark: of the same structure)
583
584 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
585 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
586 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
587
588
589
590 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
591
592 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
593 gui with the command mars.
594
595
596
597 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
598
599 - First official release 0.1
600
601 - Changes:
602
603 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
604 while-loop
605
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