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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - New combined signal and time extractor
5 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
6
7 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
8 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
9
10 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
11
12 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
13 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
14 more): showlog
15
16 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
17 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
18
19 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
20 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
21 source
22
23 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
24 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
25
26 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
27
28 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
29 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
30
31 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
32 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
33
34 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
35 times the area ratio as cleaning level
36 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
37
38 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
39 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
40
41 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
42 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
43
44 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
45 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
46
47 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
48 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
49 by a resource file: callisto.rc
50
51 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
52 version 4)
53
54 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
55 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
56
57 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
58 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
59 a resource file: star.rc
60
61 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
62 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
63
64 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
65 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
66
67 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
68 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
69 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
70
71 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
72 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
73 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
74 MHTimeDiffTheta.
75
76 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
77 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
78 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
79
80 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
81 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
82 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
83
84
85
86 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
87
88 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
89 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
90
91 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
92
93 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
94
95 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
96
97 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
98
99 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
100 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
101 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
102
103 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
104
105 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
106 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
107 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
108
109 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
110 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
111
112 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
113
114 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
115
116
117
118 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
119
120 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
121 MExtractTimeFastSpline
122
123 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
124 ("pow(a, b)")
125
126 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
127 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
128
129 - added support in MF for expressiond like
130 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
131
132 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
133 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
134 is implemented through the new virtual function
135 MParContainer::SetVariables
136
137 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
138 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
139
140 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
141 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
142
143 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
144 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
145
146 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
147 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
148 and will replace them.
149
150 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
151
152 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
153 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
154 slices in the maximum window
155
156 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
157 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
158 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
159 studies.
160
161 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
162 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
163 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
164 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
165
166 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
167 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
168
169 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
170 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
171 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
172 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
173 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
174 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
175
176 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
177 macro pedphotcalc.C
178
179 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
180
181 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
182
183 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
184 minimizations
185
186 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
187 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
188
189 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
190
191 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
192 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
193 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
194
195 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
196 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
197
198 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
199 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
200
201 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
202
203 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
204
205 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
206
207 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
208
209 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
210
211 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
212 + MJPedestals
213 + MJCalibration
214 + MJExtractSignal
215 Note: All of them are preliminary!
216
217 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
218
219 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
220 the evolution of a sector vs time
221
222
223
224 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
225
226 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
227 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
228 camera version 0.7.
229
230 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
231 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
232
233 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
234
235 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
236 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
237 be done soon.
238
239 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
240 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
241
242 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
243 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
244 of time (readrep.C)
245
246 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
247 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
248 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
249
250 - Changed the name of the event trees:
251 + Events --> Events
252 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
253 + CalEvents --> Calibration
254
255 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
256
257 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
258
259 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
260 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
261
262 - added classes to calculate event rate
263 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
264
265 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
266
267 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
268
269 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
270 the new 'Synchonizer'
271
272
273
274 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
275
276 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
277 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
278 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
279
280 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
281 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
282 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
283
284 - added a new executable star which implements the
285 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
286 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
287
288 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
289 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
290 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
291
292 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
293 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
294
295 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
296
297
298
299 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
300
301 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
302 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
303 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
304 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
305
306 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
307 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
308
309 - added pedestal calculation
310
311 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
312 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
313
314 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
315
316 - added basic routines to apply padding
317
318 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
319 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
320
321 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
322 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
323
324 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
325 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
326
327 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
328 at all)
329
330 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
331 ignore files
332
333 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
334 to simulate the PMT camera
335
336 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
337 programs in the MC chain.
338
339 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
340 parameter in an eventloop.
341
342 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
343 location (Long, Lat, etc)
344
345 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
346
347 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
348 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
349
350 - added a new status display which can show the present status
351 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
352 an example can be found at status.C)
353
354 - reorganized directories:
355 classes describing the image --> mimage
356 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
357 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
358
359 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
360
361 - colors in logging output to screen
362
363 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
364 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
365 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
366 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
367 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
368
369 - reading of reflector files
370
371 - display data from reflector files in the camera
372
373 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
374
375 - logarithmic scale in camera
376
377 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
378
379
380
381 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
382
383 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
384
385 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
386 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
387 missing a single NN)
388
389 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
390 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
391 have any neighbour)
392
393 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
394 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
395 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
396 please ask Abelardo)
397
398 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
399 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
400
401 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
402
403 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
404 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
405 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
406 changed.
407
408 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
409 (MHMatrix)
410
411 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
412 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
413
414 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
415 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
416
417 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
418 event display gui.
419
420 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
421
422 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
423
424 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
425
426 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
427 to MHillas
428
429 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
430
431 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
432
433 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
434
435 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
436
437 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
438 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
439 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
440
441 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
442
443 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
444 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
445
446 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
447 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
448 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
449 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
450 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
451
452 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
453 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
454
455 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
456 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
457
458 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
459 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
460
461 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
462
463 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
464
465 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
466 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
467
468 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
469 (thanks to Raquel)
470
471 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
472 estfit.C) using a parametrization
473
474 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
475 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
476 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
477
478
479
480 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
481
482 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
483 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
484 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
485 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
486
487 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
488 for the collection area calculation
489
490 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
491 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
492
493 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
494 of one container
495
496 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
497 ascii file
498
499 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
500 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
501 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
502 hillas parameters)
503
504 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
505 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
506 see MHillas and MHillasExt
507
508 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
509 see MHillasSrc
510
511 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
512 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
513 all histograms)
514
515 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
516
517 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
518
519 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
520
521 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
522 an output stream instead of the whole container only
523
524 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
525 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
526
527 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
528 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
529
530 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
531 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
532
533 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
534
535 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
536 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
537 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
538
539 - Added:
540 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
541 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
542 they are needed in the flux calculation in
543 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
544 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
545 of Theta and the true energy
546
547 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
548 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
549 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
550 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
551 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
552 by unfolding
553
554 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
555
556
557
558 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
559
560 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
561 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
562 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
563
564 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
565
566 - Introduced verbosity levels
567
568 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
569
570 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
571 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
572
573 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
574 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
575
576 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
577
578 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
579
580 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
581 of a parameter container for each event
582
583 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
584
585 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
586
587 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
588 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
589 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
590
591 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
592 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
593 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
594
595
596
597 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
598
599 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
600
601 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
602 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
603
604 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
605 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
606 states
607
608 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
609 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
610
611 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
612
613 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
614 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
615
616 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
617 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
618
619 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
620 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
621 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
622
623 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
624 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
625
626 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
627 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
628
629 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
630 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
631
632
633
634 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
635
636 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
637
638 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
639
640 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
641
642 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
643
644 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
645
646 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
647
648 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
649
650 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
651
652 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
653 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
654
655
656
657 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
658
659 - Many demo macros added
660
661 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
662
663 - Hillas Calculation added
664
665 - Standard image cleaning available
666
667 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
668 (Remark: of the same structure)
669
670 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
671 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
672 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
673
674
675
676 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
677
678 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
679 gui with the command mars.
680
681
682
683 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
684
685 - First official release 0.1
686
687 - Changes:
688
689 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
690 while-loop
691
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