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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 - 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 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
29 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
30
31 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
32 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
33
34
35
36 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
37
38 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
39 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
40
41 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
42
43 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
44
45 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
46
47 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
48
49 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
50 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
51 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
52
53 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
54
55 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
56 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
57 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
58
59 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
60 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
61
62 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
63
64 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
65
66
67
68 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
69
70 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
71 MExtractTimeFastSpline
72
73 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
74 ("pow(a, b)")
75
76 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
77 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
78
79 - added support in MF for expressiond like
80 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
81
82 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
83 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
84 is implemented through the new virtual function
85 MParContainer::SetVariables
86
87 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
88 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
89
90 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
91 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
92
93 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
94 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
95
96 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
97 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
98 and will replace them.
99
100 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
101
102 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
103 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
104 slices in the maximum window
105
106 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
107 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
108 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
109 studies.
110
111 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
112 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
113 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
114 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
115
116 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
117 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
118
119 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
120 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
121 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
122 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
123 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
124 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
125
126 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
127 macro pedphotcalc.C
128
129 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
130
131 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
132
133 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
134 minimizations
135
136 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
137 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
138
139 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
140
141 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
142 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
143 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
144
145 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
146 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
147
148 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
149 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
150
151 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
152
153 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
154
155 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
156
157 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
158
159 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
160
161 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
162 + MJPedestals
163 + MJCalibration
164 + MJExtractSignal
165 Note: All of them are preliminary!
166
167 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
168
169 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
170 the evolution of a sector vs time
171
172
173
174 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
175
176 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
177 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
178 camera version 0.7.
179
180 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
181 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
182
183 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
184
185 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
186 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
187 be done soon.
188
189 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
190 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
191
192 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
193 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
194 of time (readrep.C)
195
196 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
197 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
198 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
199
200 - Changed the name of the event trees:
201 + Events --> Events
202 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
203 + CalEvents --> Calibration
204
205 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
206
207 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
208
209 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
210 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
211
212 - added classes to calculate event rate
213 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
214
215 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
216
217 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
218
219 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
220 the new 'Synchonizer'
221
222
223
224 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
225
226 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
227 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
228 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
229
230 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
231 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
232 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
233
234 - added a new executable star which implements the
235 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
236 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
237
238 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
239 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
240 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
241
242 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
243 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
244
245 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
246
247
248
249 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
250
251 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
252 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
253 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
254 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
255
256 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
257 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
258
259 - added pedestal calculation
260
261 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
262 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
263
264 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
265
266 - added basic routines to apply padding
267
268 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
269 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
270
271 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
272 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
273
274 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
275 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
276
277 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
278 at all)
279
280 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
281 ignore files
282
283 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
284 to simulate the PMT camera
285
286 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
287 programs in the MC chain.
288
289 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
290 parameter in an eventloop.
291
292 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
293 location (Long, Lat, etc)
294
295 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
296
297 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
298 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
299
300 - added a new status display which can show the present status
301 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
302 an example can be found at status.C)
303
304 - reorganized directories:
305 classes describing the image --> mimage
306 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
307 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
308
309 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
310
311 - colors in logging output to screen
312
313 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
314 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
315 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
316 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
317 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
318
319 - reading of reflector files
320
321 - display data from reflector files in the camera
322
323 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
324
325 - logarithmic scale in camera
326
327 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
328
329
330
331 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
332
333 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
334
335 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
336 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
337 missing a single NN)
338
339 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
340 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
341 have any neighbour)
342
343 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
344 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
345 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
346 please ask Abelardo)
347
348 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
349 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
350
351 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
352
353 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
354 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
355 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
356 changed.
357
358 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
359 (MHMatrix)
360
361 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
362 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
363
364 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
365 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
366
367 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
368 event display gui.
369
370 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
371
372 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
373
374 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
375
376 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
377 to MHillas
378
379 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
380
381 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
382
383 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
384
385 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
386
387 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
388 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
389 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
390
391 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
392
393 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
394 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
395
396 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
397 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
398 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
399 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
400 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
401
402 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
403 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
404
405 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
406 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
407
408 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
409 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
410
411 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
412
413 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
414
415 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
416 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
417
418 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
419 (thanks to Raquel)
420
421 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
422 estfit.C) using a parametrization
423
424 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
425 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
426 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
427
428
429
430 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
431
432 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
433 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
434 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
435 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
436
437 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
438 for the collection area calculation
439
440 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
441 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
442
443 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
444 of one container
445
446 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
447 ascii file
448
449 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
450 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
451 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
452 hillas parameters)
453
454 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
455 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
456 see MHillas and MHillasExt
457
458 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
459 see MHillasSrc
460
461 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
462 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
463 all histograms)
464
465 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
466
467 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
468
469 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
470
471 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
472 an output stream instead of the whole container only
473
474 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
475 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
476
477 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
478 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
479
480 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
481 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
482
483 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
484
485 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
486 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
487 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
488
489 - Added:
490 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
491 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
492 they are needed in the flux calculation in
493 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
494 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
495 of Theta and the true energy
496
497 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
498 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
499 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
500 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
501 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
502 by unfolding
503
504 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
505
506
507
508 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
509
510 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
511 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
512 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
513
514 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
515
516 - Introduced verbosity levels
517
518 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
519
520 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
521 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
522
523 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
524 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
525
526 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
527
528 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
529
530 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
531 of a parameter container for each event
532
533 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
534
535 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
536
537 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
538 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
539 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
540
541 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
542 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
543 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
544
545
546
547 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
548
549 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
550
551 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
552 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
553
554 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
555 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
556 states
557
558 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
559 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
560
561 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
562
563 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
564 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
565
566 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
567 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
568
569 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
570 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
571 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
572
573 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
574 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
575
576 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
577 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
578
579 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
580 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
581
582
583
584 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
585
586 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
587
588 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
589
590 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
591
592 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
593
594 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
595
596 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
597
598 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
599
600 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
601
602 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
603 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
604
605
606
607 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
608
609 - Many demo macros added
610
611 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
612
613 - Hillas Calculation added
614
615 - Standard image cleaning available
616
617 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
618 (Remark: of the same structure)
619
620 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
621 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
622 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
623
624
625
626 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
627
628 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
629 gui with the command mars.
630
631
632
633 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
634
635 - First official release 0.1
636
637 - Changes:
638
639 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
640 while-loop
641
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