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1 -*-*- END -*-*-
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 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
11 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
12 source
13
14 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
15 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
16
17
18
19 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
20
21 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
22 nd MExtractAmplitudeSpline
23
24 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
25
26 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
27
28 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
29
30 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
31
32 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
33 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
34 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
35
36 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
37
38 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
39 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
40 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
41
42 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
43 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
44
45 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
46
47 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
48
49
50
51 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
52
53 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
54 MExtractTimeFastSpline
55
56 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
57 ("pow(a, b)")
58
59 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
60 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
61
62 - added support in MF for expressiond like
63 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
64
65 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
66 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
67 is implemented through the new virtual function
68 MParContainer::SetVariables
69
70 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
71 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
72
73 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
74 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
75
76 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
77 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
78
79 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
80 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
81 and will replace them.
82
83 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
84
85 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
86 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
87 slices in the maximum window
88
89 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
90 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
91 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
92 studies.
93
94 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
95 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
96 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
97 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
98
99 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
100 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
101
102 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
103 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
104 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
105 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
106 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
107 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
108
109 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
110 macro pedphotcalc.C
111
112 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
113
114 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
115
116 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
117 minimizations
118
119 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
120 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
121
122 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
123
124 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
125 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
126 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
127
128 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
129 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
130
131 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
132 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
133
134 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
135
136 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
137
138 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
139
140 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
141
142 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
143
144 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
145 + MJPedestals
146 + MJCalibration
147 + MJExtractSignal
148 Note: All of them are preliminary!
149
150 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
151
152 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
153 the evolution of a sector vs time
154
155
156
157 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
158
159 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
160 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
161 camera version 0.7.
162
163 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
164 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
165
166 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
167
168 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
169 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
170 be done soon.
171
172 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
173 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
174
175 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
176 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
177 of time (readrep.C)
178
179 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
180 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
181 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
182
183 - Changed the name of the event trees:
184 + Events --> Events
185 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
186 + CalEvents --> Calibration
187
188 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
189
190 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
191
192 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
193 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
194
195 - added classes to calculate event rate
196 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
197
198 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
199
200 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
201
202 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
203 the new 'Synchonizer'
204
205
206
207 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
208
209 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
210 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
211 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
212
213 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
214 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
215 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
216
217 - added a new executable star which implements the
218 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
219 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
220
221 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
222 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
223 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
224
225 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
226 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
227
228 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
229
230
231
232 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
233
234 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
235 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
236 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
237 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
238
239 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
240 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
241
242 - added pedestal calculation
243
244 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
245 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
246
247 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
248
249 - added basic routines to apply padding
250
251 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
252 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
253
254 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
255 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
256
257 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
258 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
259
260 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
261 at all)
262
263 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
264 ignore files
265
266 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
267 to simulate the PMT camera
268
269 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
270 programs in the MC chain.
271
272 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
273 parameter in an eventloop.
274
275 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
276 location (Long, Lat, etc)
277
278 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
279
280 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
281 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
282
283 - added a new status display which can show the present status
284 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
285 an example can be found at status.C)
286
287 - reorganized directories:
288 classes describing the image --> mimage
289 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
290 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
291
292 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
293
294 - colors in logging output to screen
295
296 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
297 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
298 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
299 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
300 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
301
302 - reading of reflector files
303
304 - display data from reflector files in the camera
305
306 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
307
308 - logarithmic scale in camera
309
310 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
311
312
313
314 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
315
316 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
317
318 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
319 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
320 missing a single NN)
321
322 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
323 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
324 have any neighbour)
325
326 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
327 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
328 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
329 please ask Abelardo)
330
331 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
332 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
333
334 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
335
336 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
337 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
338 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
339 changed.
340
341 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
342 (MHMatrix)
343
344 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
345 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
346
347 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
348 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
349
350 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
351 event display gui.
352
353 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
354
355 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
356
357 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
358
359 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
360 to MHillas
361
362 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
363
364 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
365
366 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
367
368 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
369
370 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
371 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
372 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
373
374 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
375
376 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
377 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
378
379 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
380 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
381 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
382 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
383 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
384
385 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
386 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
387
388 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
389 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
390
391 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
392 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
393
394 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
395
396 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
397
398 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
399 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
400
401 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
402 (thanks to Raquel)
403
404 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
405 estfit.C) using a parametrization
406
407 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
408 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
409 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
410
411
412
413 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
414
415 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
416 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
417 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
418 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
419
420 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
421 for the collection area calculation
422
423 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
424 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
425
426 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
427 of one container
428
429 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
430 ascii file
431
432 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
433 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
434 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
435 hillas parameters)
436
437 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
438 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
439 see MHillas and MHillasExt
440
441 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
442 see MHillasSrc
443
444 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
445 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
446 all histograms)
447
448 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
449
450 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
451
452 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
453
454 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
455 an output stream instead of the whole container only
456
457 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
458 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
459
460 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
461 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
462
463 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
464 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
465
466 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
467
468 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
469 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
470 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
471
472 - Added:
473 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
474 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
475 they are needed in the flux calculation in
476 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
477 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
478 of Theta and the true energy
479
480 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
481 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
482 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
483 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
484 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
485 by unfolding
486
487 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
488
489
490
491 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
492
493 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
494 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
495 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
496
497 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
498
499 - Introduced verbosity levels
500
501 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
502
503 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
504 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
505
506 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
507 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
508
509 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
510
511 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
512
513 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
514 of a parameter container for each event
515
516 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
517
518 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
519
520 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
521 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
522 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
523
524 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
525 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
526 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
527
528
529
530 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
531
532 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
533
534 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
535 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
536
537 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
538 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
539 states
540
541 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
542 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
543
544 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
545
546 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
547 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
548
549 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
550 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
551
552 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
553 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
554 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
555
556 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
557 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
558
559 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
560 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
561
562 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
563 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
564
565
566
567 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
568
569 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
570
571 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
572
573 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
574
575 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
576
577 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
578
579 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
580
581 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
582
583 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
584
585 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
586 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
587
588
589
590 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
591
592 - Many demo macros added
593
594 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
595
596 - Hillas Calculation added
597
598 - Standard image cleaning available
599
600 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
601 (Remark: of the same structure)
602
603 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
604 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
605 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
606
607
608
609 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
610
611 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
612 gui with the command mars.
613
614
615
616 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
617
618 - First official release 0.1
619
620 - Changes:
621
622 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
623 while-loop
624
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