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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 new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
11 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
12
13 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
14 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
15 source
16
17 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
18 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
19
20 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
21
22 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
23 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
24
25 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
26 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
27
28 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
29 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
30
31 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
32 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
33
34 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
35 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
36
37 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
38 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
39 by a resource file: callisto.rc
40
41 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
42 version 4)
43
44 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
45 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
46
47 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
48 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
49 a resource file: star.rc
50
51 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
52 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
53
54 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
55 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
56
57
58
59 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
60
61 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
62 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
63
64 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
65
66 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
67
68 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
69
70 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
71
72 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
73 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
74 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
75
76 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
77
78 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
79 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
80 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
81
82 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
83 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
84
85 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
86
87 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
88
89
90
91 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
92
93 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
94 MExtractTimeFastSpline
95
96 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
97 ("pow(a, b)")
98
99 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
100 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
101
102 - added support in MF for expressiond like
103 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
104
105 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
106 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
107 is implemented through the new virtual function
108 MParContainer::SetVariables
109
110 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
111 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
112
113 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
114 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
115
116 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
117 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
118
119 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
120 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
121 and will replace them.
122
123 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
124
125 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
126 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
127 slices in the maximum window
128
129 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
130 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
131 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
132 studies.
133
134 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
135 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
136 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
137 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
138
139 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
140 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
141
142 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
143 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
144 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
145 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
146 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
147 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
148
149 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
150 macro pedphotcalc.C
151
152 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
153
154 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
155
156 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
157 minimizations
158
159 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
160 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
161
162 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
163
164 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
165 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
166 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
167
168 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
169 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
170
171 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
172 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
173
174 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
175
176 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
177
178 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
179
180 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
181
182 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
183
184 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
185 + MJPedestals
186 + MJCalibration
187 + MJExtractSignal
188 Note: All of them are preliminary!
189
190 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
191
192 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
193 the evolution of a sector vs time
194
195
196
197 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
198
199 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
200 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
201 camera version 0.7.
202
203 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
204 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
205
206 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
207
208 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
209 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
210 be done soon.
211
212 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
213 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
214
215 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
216 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
217 of time (readrep.C)
218
219 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
220 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
221 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
222
223 - Changed the name of the event trees:
224 + Events --> Events
225 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
226 + CalEvents --> Calibration
227
228 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
229
230 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
231
232 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
233 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
234
235 - added classes to calculate event rate
236 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
237
238 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
239
240 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
241
242 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
243 the new 'Synchonizer'
244
245
246
247 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
248
249 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
250 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
251 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
252
253 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
254 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
255 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
256
257 - added a new executable star which implements the
258 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
259 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
260
261 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
262 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
263 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
264
265 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
266 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
267
268 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
269
270
271
272 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
273
274 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
275 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
276 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
277 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
278
279 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
280 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
281
282 - added pedestal calculation
283
284 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
285 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
286
287 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
288
289 - added basic routines to apply padding
290
291 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
292 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
293
294 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
295 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
296
297 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
298 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
299
300 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
301 at all)
302
303 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
304 ignore files
305
306 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
307 to simulate the PMT camera
308
309 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
310 programs in the MC chain.
311
312 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
313 parameter in an eventloop.
314
315 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
316 location (Long, Lat, etc)
317
318 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
319
320 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
321 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
322
323 - added a new status display which can show the present status
324 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
325 an example can be found at status.C)
326
327 - reorganized directories:
328 classes describing the image --> mimage
329 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
330 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
331
332 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
333
334 - colors in logging output to screen
335
336 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
337 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
338 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
339 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
340 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
341
342 - reading of reflector files
343
344 - display data from reflector files in the camera
345
346 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
347
348 - logarithmic scale in camera
349
350 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
351
352
353
354 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
355
356 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
357
358 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
359 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
360 missing a single NN)
361
362 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
363 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
364 have any neighbour)
365
366 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
367 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
368 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
369 please ask Abelardo)
370
371 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
372 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
373
374 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
375
376 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
377 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
378 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
379 changed.
380
381 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
382 (MHMatrix)
383
384 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
385 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
386
387 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
388 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
389
390 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
391 event display gui.
392
393 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
394
395 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
396
397 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
398
399 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
400 to MHillas
401
402 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
403
404 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
405
406 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
407
408 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
409
410 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
411 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
412 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
413
414 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
415
416 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
417 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
418
419 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
420 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
421 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
422 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
423 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
424
425 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
426 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
427
428 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
429 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
430
431 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
432 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
433
434 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
435
436 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
437
438 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
439 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
440
441 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
442 (thanks to Raquel)
443
444 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
445 estfit.C) using a parametrization
446
447 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
448 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
449 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
450
451
452
453 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
454
455 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
456 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
457 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
458 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
459
460 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
461 for the collection area calculation
462
463 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
464 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
465
466 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
467 of one container
468
469 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
470 ascii file
471
472 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
473 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
474 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
475 hillas parameters)
476
477 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
478 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
479 see MHillas and MHillasExt
480
481 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
482 see MHillasSrc
483
484 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
485 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
486 all histograms)
487
488 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
489
490 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
491
492 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
493
494 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
495 an output stream instead of the whole container only
496
497 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
498 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
499
500 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
501 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
502
503 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
504 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
505
506 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
507
508 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
509 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
510 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
511
512 - Added:
513 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
514 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
515 they are needed in the flux calculation in
516 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
517 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
518 of Theta and the true energy
519
520 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
521 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
522 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
523 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
524 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
525 by unfolding
526
527 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
528
529
530
531 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
532
533 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
534 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
535 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
536
537 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
538
539 - Introduced verbosity levels
540
541 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
542
543 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
544 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
545
546 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
547 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
548
549 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
550
551 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
552
553 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
554 of a parameter container for each event
555
556 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
557
558 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
559
560 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
561 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
562 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
563
564 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
565 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
566 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
567
568
569
570 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
571
572 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
573
574 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
575 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
576
577 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
578 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
579 states
580
581 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
582 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
583
584 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
585
586 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
587 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
588
589 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
590 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
591
592 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
593 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
594 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
595
596 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
597 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
598
599 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
600 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
601
602 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
603 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
604
605
606
607 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
608
609 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
610
611 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
612
613 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
614
615 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
616
617 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
618
619 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
620
621 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
622
623 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
624
625 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
626 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
627
628
629
630 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
631
632 - Many demo macros added
633
634 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
635
636 - Hillas Calculation added
637
638 - Standard image cleaning available
639
640 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
641 (Remark: of the same structure)
642
643 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
644 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
645 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
646
647
648
649 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
650
651 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
652 gui with the command mars.
653
654
655
656 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
657
658 - First official release 0.1
659
660 - Changes:
661
662 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
663 while-loop
664
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