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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
5 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
6 energy (Size) events.
7
8 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
9
10 - New combined signal and time extractor
11 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
12
13 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
14 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
15
16 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
17
18 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
19 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
20 more): showlog
21
22 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
23 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
24
25 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
26 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
27 source
28
29 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
30 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
31
32 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
33
34 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
35 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
36
37 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
38 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
39
40 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
41 times the area ratio as cleaning level
42 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
43
44 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
45 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
46
47 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
48 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
49
50 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
51 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
52
53 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
54 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
55 by a resource file: callisto.rc
56
57 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
58 version 4)
59
60 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
61 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
62
63 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
64 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
65 a resource file: star.rc
66
67 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
68 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
69
70 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
71 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
72
73 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
74 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
75 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
76
77 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
78 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
79 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
80 MHTimeDiffTheta.
81
82 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
83 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
84 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
85
86 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
87 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
88 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
89
90
91
92 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
93
94 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
95 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
96
97 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
98
99 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
100
101 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
102
103 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
104
105 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
106 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
107 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
108
109 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
110
111 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
112 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
113 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
114
115 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
116 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
117
118 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
119
120 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
121
122
123
124 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
125
126 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
127 MExtractTimeFastSpline
128
129 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
130 ("pow(a, b)")
131
132 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
133 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
134
135 - added support in MF for expressiond like
136 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
137
138 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
139 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
140 is implemented through the new virtual function
141 MParContainer::SetVariables
142
143 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
144 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
145
146 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
147 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
148
149 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
150 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
151
152 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
153 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
154 and will replace them.
155
156 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
157
158 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
159 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
160 slices in the maximum window
161
162 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
163 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
164 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
165 studies.
166
167 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
168 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
169 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
170 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
171
172 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
173 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
174
175 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
176 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
177 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
178 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
179 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
180 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
181
182 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
183 macro pedphotcalc.C
184
185 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
186
187 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
188
189 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
190 minimizations
191
192 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
193 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
194
195 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
196
197 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
198 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
199 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
200
201 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
202 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
203
204 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
205 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
206
207 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
208
209 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
210
211 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
212
213 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
214
215 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
216
217 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
218 + MJPedestals
219 + MJCalibration
220 + MJExtractSignal
221 Note: All of them are preliminary!
222
223 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
224
225 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
226 the evolution of a sector vs time
227
228
229
230 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
231
232 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
233 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
234 camera version 0.7.
235
236 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
237 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
238
239 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
240
241 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
242 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
243 be done soon.
244
245 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
246 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
247
248 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
249 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
250 of time (readrep.C)
251
252 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
253 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
254 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
255
256 - Changed the name of the event trees:
257 + Events --> Events
258 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
259 + CalEvents --> Calibration
260
261 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
262
263 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
264
265 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
266 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
267
268 - added classes to calculate event rate
269 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
270
271 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
272
273 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
274
275 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
276 the new 'Synchonizer'
277
278
279
280 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
281
282 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
283 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
284 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
285
286 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
287 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
288 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
289
290 - added a new executable star which implements the
291 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
292 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
293
294 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
295 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
296 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
297
298 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
299 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
300
301 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
302
303
304
305 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
306
307 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
308 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
309 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
310 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
311
312 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
313 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
314
315 - added pedestal calculation
316
317 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
318 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
319
320 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
321
322 - added basic routines to apply padding
323
324 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
325 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
326
327 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
328 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
329
330 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
331 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
332
333 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
334 at all)
335
336 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
337 ignore files
338
339 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
340 to simulate the PMT camera
341
342 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
343 programs in the MC chain.
344
345 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
346 parameter in an eventloop.
347
348 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
349 location (Long, Lat, etc)
350
351 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
352
353 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
354 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
355
356 - added a new status display which can show the present status
357 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
358 an example can be found at status.C)
359
360 - reorganized directories:
361 classes describing the image --> mimage
362 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
363 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
364
365 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
366
367 - colors in logging output to screen
368
369 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
370 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
371 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
372 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
373 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
374
375 - reading of reflector files
376
377 - display data from reflector files in the camera
378
379 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
380
381 - logarithmic scale in camera
382
383 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
384
385
386
387 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
388
389 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
390
391 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
392 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
393 missing a single NN)
394
395 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
396 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
397 have any neighbour)
398
399 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
400 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
401 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
402 please ask Abelardo)
403
404 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
405 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
406
407 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
408
409 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
410 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
411 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
412 changed.
413
414 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
415 (MHMatrix)
416
417 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
418 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
419
420 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
421 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
422
423 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
424 event display gui.
425
426 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
427
428 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
429
430 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
431
432 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
433 to MHillas
434
435 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
436
437 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
438
439 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
440
441 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
442
443 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
444 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
445 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
446
447 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
448
449 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
450 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
451
452 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
453 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
454 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
455 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
456 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
457
458 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
459 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
460
461 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
462 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
463
464 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
465 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
466
467 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
468
469 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
470
471 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
472 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
473
474 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
475 (thanks to Raquel)
476
477 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
478 estfit.C) using a parametrization
479
480 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
481 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
482 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
483
484
485
486 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
487
488 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
489 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
490 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
491 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
492
493 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
494 for the collection area calculation
495
496 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
497 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
498
499 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
500 of one container
501
502 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
503 ascii file
504
505 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
506 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
507 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
508 hillas parameters)
509
510 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
511 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
512 see MHillas and MHillasExt
513
514 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
515 see MHillasSrc
516
517 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
518 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
519 all histograms)
520
521 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
522
523 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
524
525 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
526
527 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
528 an output stream instead of the whole container only
529
530 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
531 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
532
533 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
534 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
535
536 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
537 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
538
539 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
540
541 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
542 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
543 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
544
545 - Added:
546 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
547 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
548 they are needed in the flux calculation in
549 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
550 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
551 of Theta and the true energy
552
553 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
554 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
555 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
556 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
557 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
558 by unfolding
559
560 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
561
562
563
564 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
565
566 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
567 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
568 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
569
570 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
571
572 - Introduced verbosity levels
573
574 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
575
576 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
577 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
578
579 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
580 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
581
582 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
583
584 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
585
586 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
587 of a parameter container for each event
588
589 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
590
591 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
592
593 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
594 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
595 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
596
597 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
598 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
599 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
600
601
602
603 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
604
605 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
606
607 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
608 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
609
610 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
611 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
612 states
613
614 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
615 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
616
617 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
618
619 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
620 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
621
622 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
623 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
624
625 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
626 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
627 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
628
629 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
630 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
631
632 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
633 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
634
635 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
636 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
637
638
639
640 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
641
642 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
643
644 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
645
646 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
647
648 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
649
650 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
651
652 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
653
654 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
655
656 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
657
658 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
659 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
660
661
662
663 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
664
665 - Many demo macros added
666
667 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
668
669 - Hillas Calculation added
670
671 - Standard image cleaning available
672
673 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
674 (Remark: of the same structure)
675
676 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
677 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
678 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
679
680
681
682 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
683
684 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
685 gui with the command mars.
686
687
688
689 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
690
691 - First official release 0.1
692
693 - Changes:
694
695 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
696 while-loop
697
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