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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 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
18
19 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
20 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
21
22 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
23 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
24
25 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
26 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
27
28
29
30 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
31
32 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
33 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
34
35 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
36
37 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
38
39 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
40
41 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
42
43 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
44 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
45 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
46
47 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
48
49 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
50 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
51 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
52
53 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
54 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
55
56 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
57
58 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
59
60
61
62 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
63
64 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
65 MExtractTimeFastSpline
66
67 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
68 ("pow(a, b)")
69
70 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
71 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
72
73 - added support in MF for expressiond like
74 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
75
76 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
77 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
78 is implemented through the new virtual function
79 MParContainer::SetVariables
80
81 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
82 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
83
84 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
85 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
86
87 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
88 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
89
90 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
91 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
92 and will replace them.
93
94 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
95
96 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
97 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
98 slices in the maximum window
99
100 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
101 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
102 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
103 studies.
104
105 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
106 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
107 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
108 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
109
110 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
111 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
112
113 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
114 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
115 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
116 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
117 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
118 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
119
120 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
121 macro pedphotcalc.C
122
123 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
124
125 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
126
127 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
128 minimizations
129
130 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
131 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
132
133 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
134
135 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
136 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
137 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
138
139 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
140 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
141
142 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
143 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
144
145 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
146
147 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
148
149 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
150
151 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
152
153 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
154
155 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
156 + MJPedestals
157 + MJCalibration
158 + MJExtractSignal
159 Note: All of them are preliminary!
160
161 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
162
163 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
164 the evolution of a sector vs time
165
166
167
168 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
169
170 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
171 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
172 camera version 0.7.
173
174 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
175 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
176
177 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
178
179 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
180 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
181 be done soon.
182
183 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
184 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
185
186 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
187 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
188 of time (readrep.C)
189
190 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
191 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
192 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
193
194 - Changed the name of the event trees:
195 + Events --> Events
196 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
197 + CalEvents --> Calibration
198
199 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
200
201 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
202
203 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
204 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
205
206 - added classes to calculate event rate
207 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
208
209 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
210
211 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
212
213 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
214 the new 'Synchonizer'
215
216
217
218 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
219
220 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
221 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
222 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
223
224 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
225 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
226 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
227
228 - added a new executable star which implements the
229 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
230 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
231
232 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
233 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
234 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
235
236 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
237 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
238
239 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
240
241
242
243 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
244
245 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
246 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
247 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
248 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
249
250 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
251 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
252
253 - added pedestal calculation
254
255 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
256 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
257
258 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
259
260 - added basic routines to apply padding
261
262 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
263 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
264
265 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
266 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
267
268 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
269 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
270
271 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
272 at all)
273
274 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
275 ignore files
276
277 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
278 to simulate the PMT camera
279
280 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
281 programs in the MC chain.
282
283 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
284 parameter in an eventloop.
285
286 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
287 location (Long, Lat, etc)
288
289 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
290
291 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
292 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
293
294 - added a new status display which can show the present status
295 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
296 an example can be found at status.C)
297
298 - reorganized directories:
299 classes describing the image --> mimage
300 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
301 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
302
303 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
304
305 - colors in logging output to screen
306
307 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
308 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
309 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
310 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
311 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
312
313 - reading of reflector files
314
315 - display data from reflector files in the camera
316
317 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
318
319 - logarithmic scale in camera
320
321 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
322
323
324
325 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
326
327 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
328
329 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
330 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
331 missing a single NN)
332
333 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
334 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
335 have any neighbour)
336
337 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
338 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
339 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
340 please ask Abelardo)
341
342 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
343 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
344
345 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
346
347 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
348 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
349 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
350 changed.
351
352 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
353 (MHMatrix)
354
355 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
356 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
357
358 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
359 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
360
361 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
362 event display gui.
363
364 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
365
366 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
367
368 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
369
370 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
371 to MHillas
372
373 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
374
375 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
376
377 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
378
379 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
380
381 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
382 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
383 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
384
385 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
386
387 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
388 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
389
390 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
391 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
392 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
393 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
394 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
395
396 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
397 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
398
399 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
400 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
401
402 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
403 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
404
405 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
406
407 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
408
409 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
410 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
411
412 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
413 (thanks to Raquel)
414
415 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
416 estfit.C) using a parametrization
417
418 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
419 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
420 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
421
422
423
424 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
425
426 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
427 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
428 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
429 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
430
431 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
432 for the collection area calculation
433
434 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
435 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
436
437 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
438 of one container
439
440 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
441 ascii file
442
443 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
444 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
445 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
446 hillas parameters)
447
448 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
449 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
450 see MHillas and MHillasExt
451
452 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
453 see MHillasSrc
454
455 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
456 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
457 all histograms)
458
459 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
460
461 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
462
463 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
464
465 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
466 an output stream instead of the whole container only
467
468 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
469 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
470
471 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
472 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
473
474 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
475 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
476
477 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
478
479 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
480 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
481 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
482
483 - Added:
484 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
485 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
486 they are needed in the flux calculation in
487 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
488 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
489 of Theta and the true energy
490
491 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
492 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
493 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
494 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
495 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
496 by unfolding
497
498 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
499
500
501
502 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
503
504 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
505 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
506 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
507
508 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
509
510 - Introduced verbosity levels
511
512 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
513
514 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
515 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
516
517 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
518 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
519
520 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
521
522 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
523
524 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
525 of a parameter container for each event
526
527 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
528
529 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
530
531 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
532 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
533 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
534
535 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
536 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
537 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
538
539
540
541 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
542
543 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
544
545 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
546 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
547
548 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
549 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
550 states
551
552 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
553 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
554
555 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
556
557 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
558 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
559
560 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
561 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
562
563 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
564 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
565 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
566
567 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
568 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
569
570 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
571 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
572
573 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
574 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
575
576
577
578 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
579
580 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
581
582 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
583
584 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
585
586 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
587
588 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
589
590 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
591
592 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
593
594 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
595
596 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
597 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
598
599
600
601 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
602
603 - Many demo macros added
604
605 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
606
607 - Hillas Calculation added
608
609 - Standard image cleaning available
610
611 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
612 (Remark: of the same structure)
613
614 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
615 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
616 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
617
618
619
620 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
621
622 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
623 gui with the command mars.
624
625
626
627 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
628
629 - First official release 0.1
630
631 - Changes:
632
633 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
634 while-loop
635
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