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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 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
26 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
27
28 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
29 times the area ratio as cleaning level
30 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
31
32 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
33 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
34
35 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
36 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
37
38 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
39 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
40
41 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
42 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
43 by a resource file: callisto.rc
44
45 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
46 version 4)
47
48 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
49 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
50
51 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
52 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
53 a resource file: star.rc
54
55 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
56 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
57
58 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
59 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
60
61 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
62 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
63 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
64
65
66
67 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
68
69 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
70 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
71
72 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
73
74 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
75
76 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
77
78 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
79
80 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
81 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
82 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
83
84 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
85
86 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
87 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
88 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
89
90 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
91 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
92
93 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
94
95 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
96
97
98
99 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
100
101 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
102 MExtractTimeFastSpline
103
104 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
105 ("pow(a, b)")
106
107 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
108 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
109
110 - added support in MF for expressiond like
111 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
112
113 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
114 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
115 is implemented through the new virtual function
116 MParContainer::SetVariables
117
118 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
119 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
120
121 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
122 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
123
124 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
125 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
126
127 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
128 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
129 and will replace them.
130
131 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
132
133 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
134 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
135 slices in the maximum window
136
137 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
138 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
139 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
140 studies.
141
142 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
143 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
144 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
145 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
146
147 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
148 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
149
150 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
151 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
152 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
153 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
154 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
155 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
156
157 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
158 macro pedphotcalc.C
159
160 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
161
162 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
163
164 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
165 minimizations
166
167 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
168 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
169
170 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
171
172 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
173 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
174 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
175
176 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
177 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
178
179 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
180 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
181
182 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
183
184 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
185
186 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
187
188 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
189
190 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
191
192 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
193 + MJPedestals
194 + MJCalibration
195 + MJExtractSignal
196 Note: All of them are preliminary!
197
198 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
199
200 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
201 the evolution of a sector vs time
202
203
204
205 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
206
207 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
208 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
209 camera version 0.7.
210
211 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
212 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
213
214 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
215
216 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
217 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
218 be done soon.
219
220 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
221 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
222
223 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
224 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
225 of time (readrep.C)
226
227 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
228 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
229 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
230
231 - Changed the name of the event trees:
232 + Events --> Events
233 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
234 + CalEvents --> Calibration
235
236 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
237
238 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
239
240 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
241 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
242
243 - added classes to calculate event rate
244 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
245
246 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
247
248 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
249
250 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
251 the new 'Synchonizer'
252
253
254
255 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
256
257 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
258 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
259 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
260
261 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
262 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
263 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
264
265 - added a new executable star which implements the
266 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
267 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
268
269 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
270 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
271 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
272
273 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
274 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
275
276 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
277
278
279
280 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
281
282 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
283 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
284 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
285 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
286
287 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
288 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
289
290 - added pedestal calculation
291
292 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
293 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
294
295 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
296
297 - added basic routines to apply padding
298
299 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
300 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
301
302 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
303 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
304
305 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
306 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
307
308 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
309 at all)
310
311 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
312 ignore files
313
314 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
315 to simulate the PMT camera
316
317 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
318 programs in the MC chain.
319
320 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
321 parameter in an eventloop.
322
323 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
324 location (Long, Lat, etc)
325
326 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
327
328 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
329 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
330
331 - added a new status display which can show the present status
332 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
333 an example can be found at status.C)
334
335 - reorganized directories:
336 classes describing the image --> mimage
337 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
338 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
339
340 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
341
342 - colors in logging output to screen
343
344 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
345 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
346 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
347 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
348 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
349
350 - reading of reflector files
351
352 - display data from reflector files in the camera
353
354 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
355
356 - logarithmic scale in camera
357
358 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
359
360
361
362 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
363
364 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
365
366 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
367 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
368 missing a single NN)
369
370 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
371 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
372 have any neighbour)
373
374 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
375 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
376 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
377 please ask Abelardo)
378
379 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
380 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
381
382 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
383
384 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
385 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
386 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
387 changed.
388
389 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
390 (MHMatrix)
391
392 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
393 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
394
395 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
396 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
397
398 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
399 event display gui.
400
401 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
402
403 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
404
405 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
406
407 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
408 to MHillas
409
410 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
411
412 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
413
414 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
415
416 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
417
418 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
419 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
420 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
421
422 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
423
424 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
425 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
426
427 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
428 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
429 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
430 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
431 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
432
433 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
434 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
435
436 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
437 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
438
439 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
440 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
441
442 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
443
444 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
445
446 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
447 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
448
449 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
450 (thanks to Raquel)
451
452 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
453 estfit.C) using a parametrization
454
455 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
456 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
457 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
458
459
460
461 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
462
463 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
464 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
465 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
466 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
467
468 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
469 for the collection area calculation
470
471 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
472 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
473
474 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
475 of one container
476
477 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
478 ascii file
479
480 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
481 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
482 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
483 hillas parameters)
484
485 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
486 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
487 see MHillas and MHillasExt
488
489 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
490 see MHillasSrc
491
492 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
493 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
494 all histograms)
495
496 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
497
498 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
499
500 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
501
502 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
503 an output stream instead of the whole container only
504
505 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
506 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
507
508 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
509 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
510
511 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
512 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
513
514 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
515
516 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
517 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
518 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
519
520 - Added:
521 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
522 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
523 they are needed in the flux calculation in
524 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
525 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
526 of Theta and the true energy
527
528 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
529 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
530 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
531 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
532 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
533 by unfolding
534
535 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
536
537
538
539 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
540
541 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
542 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
543 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
544
545 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
546
547 - Introduced verbosity levels
548
549 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
550
551 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
552 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
553
554 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
555 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
556
557 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
558
559 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
560
561 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
562 of a parameter container for each event
563
564 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
565
566 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
567
568 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
569 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
570 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
571
572 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
573 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
574 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
575
576
577
578 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
579
580 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
581
582 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
583 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
584
585 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
586 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
587 states
588
589 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
590 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
591
592 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
593
594 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
595 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
596
597 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
598 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
599
600 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
601 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
602 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
603
604 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
605 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
606
607 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
608 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
609
610 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
611 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
612
613
614
615 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
616
617 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
618
619 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
620
621 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
622
623 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
624
625 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
626
627 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
628
629 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
630
631 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
632
633 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
634 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
635
636
637
638 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
639
640 - Many demo macros added
641
642 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
643
644 - Hillas Calculation added
645
646 - Standard image cleaning available
647
648 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
649 (Remark: of the same structure)
650
651 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
652 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
653 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
654
655
656
657 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
658
659 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
660 gui with the command mars.
661
662
663
664 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
665
666 - First official release 0.1
667
668 - Changes:
669
670 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
671 while-loop
672
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