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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
5
6 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
7 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
8 more): showlog
9
10
11
12 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
13
14 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
15 nd MExtractAmplitudeSpline
16
17 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
18
19 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
20
21 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
22
23 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
24
25 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
26 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
27 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
28
29 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
30
31 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
32 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
33 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
34
35 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
36 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
37
38 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
39
40 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
41
42
43
44 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
45
46 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
47 MExtractTimeFastSpline
48
49 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
50 ("pow(a, b)")
51
52 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
53 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
54
55 - added support in MF for expressiond like
56 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
57
58 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
59 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
60 is implemented through the new virtual function
61 MParContainer::SetVariables
62
63 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
64 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
65
66 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
67 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
68
69 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
70 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
71
72 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
73 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
74 and will replace them.
75
76 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
77
78 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
79 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
80 slices in the maximum window
81
82 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
83 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
84 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
85 studies.
86
87 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
88 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
89 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
90 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
91
92 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
93 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
94
95 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
96 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
97 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
98 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
99 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
100 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
101
102 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
103 macro pedphotcalc.C
104
105 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
106
107 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
108
109 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
110 minimizations
111
112 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
113 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
114
115 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
116
117 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
118 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
119 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
120
121 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
122 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
123
124 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
125 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
126
127 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
128
129 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
130
131 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
132
133 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
134
135 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
136
137 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
138 + MJPedestals
139 + MJCalibration
140 + MJExtractSignal
141 Note: All of them are preliminary!
142
143 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
144
145 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
146 the evolution of a sector vs time
147
148
149
150 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
151
152 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
153 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
154 camera version 0.7.
155
156 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
157 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
158
159 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
160
161 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
162 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
163 be done soon.
164
165 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
166 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
167
168 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
169 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
170 of time (readrep.C)
171
172 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
173 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
174 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
175
176 - Changed the name of the event trees:
177 + Events --> Events
178 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
179 + CalEvents --> Calibration
180
181 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
182
183 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
184
185 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
186 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
187
188 - added classes to calculate event rate
189 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
190
191 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
192
193 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
194
195 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
196 the new 'Synchonizer'
197
198
199
200 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
201
202 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
203 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
204 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
205
206 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
207 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
208 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
209
210 - added a new executable star which implements the
211 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
212 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
213
214 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
215 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
216 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
217
218 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
219 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
220
221 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
222
223
224
225 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
226
227 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
228 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
229 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
230 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
231
232 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
233 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
234
235 - added pedestal calculation
236
237 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
238 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
239
240 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
241
242 - added basic routines to apply padding
243
244 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
245 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
246
247 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
248 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
249
250 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
251 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
252
253 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
254 at all)
255
256 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
257 ignore files
258
259 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
260 to simulate the PMT camera
261
262 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
263 programs in the MC chain.
264
265 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
266 parameter in an eventloop.
267
268 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
269 location (Long, Lat, etc)
270
271 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
272
273 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
274 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
275
276 - added a new status display which can show the present status
277 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
278 an example can be found at status.C)
279
280 - reorganized directories:
281 classes describing the image --> mimage
282 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
283 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
284
285 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
286
287 - colors in logging output to screen
288
289 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
290 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
291 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
292 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
293 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
294
295 - reading of reflector files
296
297 - display data from reflector files in the camera
298
299 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
300
301 - logarithmic scale in camera
302
303 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
304
305
306
307 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
308
309 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
310
311 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
312 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
313 missing a single NN)
314
315 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
316 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
317 have any neighbour)
318
319 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
320 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
321 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
322 please ask Abelardo)
323
324 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
325 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
326
327 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
328
329 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
330 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
331 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
332 changed.
333
334 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
335 (MHMatrix)
336
337 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
338 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
339
340 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
341 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
342
343 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
344 event display gui.
345
346 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
347
348 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
349
350 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
351
352 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
353 to MHillas
354
355 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
356
357 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
358
359 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
360
361 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
362
363 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
364 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
365 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
366
367 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
368
369 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
370 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
371
372 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
373 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
374 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
375 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
376 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
377
378 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
379 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
380
381 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
382 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
383
384 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
385 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
386
387 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
388
389 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
390
391 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
392 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
393
394 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
395 (thanks to Raquel)
396
397 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
398 estfit.C) using a parametrization
399
400 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
401 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
402 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
403
404
405
406 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
407
408 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
409 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
410 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
411 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
412
413 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
414 for the collection area calculation
415
416 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
417 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
418
419 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
420 of one container
421
422 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
423 ascii file
424
425 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
426 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
427 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
428 hillas parameters)
429
430 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
431 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
432 see MHillas and MHillasExt
433
434 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
435 see MHillasSrc
436
437 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
438 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
439 all histograms)
440
441 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
442
443 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
444
445 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
446
447 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
448 an output stream instead of the whole container only
449
450 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
451 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
452
453 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
454 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
455
456 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
457 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
458
459 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
460
461 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
462 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
463 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
464
465 - Added:
466 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
467 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
468 they are needed in the flux calculation in
469 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
470 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
471 of Theta and the true energy
472
473 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
474 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
475 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
476 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
477 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
478 by unfolding
479
480 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
481
482
483
484 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
485
486 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
487 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
488 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
489
490 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
491
492 - Introduced verbosity levels
493
494 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
495
496 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
497 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
498
499 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
500 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
501
502 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
503
504 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
505
506 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
507 of a parameter container for each event
508
509 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
510
511 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
512
513 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
514 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
515 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
516
517 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
518 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
519 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
520
521
522
523 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
524
525 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
526
527 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
528 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
529
530 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
531 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
532 states
533
534 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
535 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
536
537 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
538
539 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
540 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
541
542 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
543 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
544
545 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
546 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
547 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
548
549 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
550 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
551
552 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
553 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
554
555 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
556 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
557
558
559
560 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
561
562 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
563
564 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
565
566 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
567
568 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
569
570 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
571
572 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
573
574 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
575
576 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
577
578 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
579 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
580
581
582
583 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
584
585 - Many demo macros added
586
587 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
588
589 - Hillas Calculation added
590
591 - Standard image cleaning available
592
593 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
594 (Remark: of the same structure)
595
596 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
597 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
598 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
599
600
601
602 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
603
604 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
605 gui with the command mars.
606
607
608
609 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
610
611 - First official release 0.1
612
613 - Changes:
614
615 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
616 while-loop
617
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