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3 *** Version <cvs>
4
5 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
6 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
7
8 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
9 on in the compiler
10
11 - showplot:
12 + batch mode creating of image files now works with root 5.12/00
13 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
14 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
15 + added support for xml
16 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
17 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
18 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
19 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
20 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
21 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
22 desktop-size: --auto-size
23
24 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
25
26 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
27
28 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
29 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
30 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
31
32 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
33 factors to be 10 after the first calibration update.
34
35 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
36 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
37 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
38 mainly for timing studies, not for the automatic standard analysis.
39
40 - callisto: Implemented two new tabs, the pulse position of pulses
41 not saturating the hi-gain (and above 50phe) and the pulse-position
42 saturating the hi-gain (means the pulse position of signal extracted
43 from the lo-gain and above 320phe) This can be used to check (and/or
44 correct) the hi-/lo-gain offset.
45
46 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
47 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
48 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
49 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
50 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
51
52 - star: changed the fit for the ffective on time such that initial
53 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
54 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
55 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
56 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
57 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
58 the bahaviour with two resource values:
59 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
60 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
61 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
62 from the resulting gamma candidates
63
64 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
65 with the colz draw-option
66
67 - ganymed: now pruduces valid error codes if failed
68
69
70
71 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
72
73 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
74 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
75
76 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
77 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
78 respectively
79
80 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
81
82 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
83
84 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
85 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
86 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
87 by this arbitrary value.
88
89 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
90 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
91 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
92 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
93
94 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
95 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
96 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
97
98 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
99
100 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
101 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
102 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
103 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
104 histograms.
105 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
106 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
107 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
108
109 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
110 starguider
111
112 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
113 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
114 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
115 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
116 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
117 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
118 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
119 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
120
121 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
122 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
123 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
124 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
125 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
126
127 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
128 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
129
130
131
132 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
133
134 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
135 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
136
137 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
138 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
139 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
140
141 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
142 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
143
144 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
145
146 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
147
148 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
149 after 6.3.2006
150
151 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
152 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
153 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
154 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
155
156 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
157 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
158 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
159 Recommended parameters:
160 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
161 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
162 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
163 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
164
165 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
166 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
167 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
168 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
169 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
170 time-scale) are missing.
171
172 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
173 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
174 people for weak sources.
175
176 - macros: plotdb.C:
177 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
178 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
179 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
180 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
181
182 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
183 the optimization became a lot faster
184
185 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
186 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
187
188 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
189 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
190 initialization of the starguider calibration
191
192 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
193 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
194 resource file using:
195 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
196 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
197
198 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
199 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
200 The bug did not effect the results at all.
201
202 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
203 trigger (including the software trigger)
204
205 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
206 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
207 a defined energy:
208 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
209
210 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
211 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
212
213
214
215 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
216
217 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
218 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
219
220 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
221 to plot statistics about the data processing
222
223 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
224 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
225
226 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
227
228 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
229 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
230 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
231 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
232
233 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
234 different values for different periods
235
236 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
237 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
238 effective on-time)
239
240 - star: Added two new image parameters:
241 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
242 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
243 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
244 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
245
246 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
247
248 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
249 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
250 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
251 + the anti theta cut is better supported
252 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
253 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
254
255 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
256 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
257
258 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
259
260 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
261 to 0.06
262
263 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
264 resource file.
265 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
266
267 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
268 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
269 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
270 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
271 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
272
273 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
274 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
275
276 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
277 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
278 on-data.
279
280
281
282 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
283
284 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
285 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
286
287 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
288 are now possible:
289 showlog callisto 55599
290 showplot signal 55599
291 star 55599
292 callisto 55999
293 ganymed 2
294 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
295 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
296 paths ("/magic/*")
297
298 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
299 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
300
301 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
302 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
303
304 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
305 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
306 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
307 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
308
309 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
310 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
311 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
312 forest.
313
314 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
315 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
316 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
317
318 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
319 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
320
321 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
322 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
323
324 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
325 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
326 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
327 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
328 size ratio.
329
330 - RanForest:
331 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
332 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
333 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
334 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
335 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
336 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
337 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
338 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
339
340 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
341 the events to be displayed, eg:
342 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
343 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
344 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
345
346 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
347 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
348 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
349 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
350 written to the CC tree.
351
352 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
353 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
354 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
355 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
356 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
357 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
358
359 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
360 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
361 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
362 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
363
364 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
365 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
366 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
367
368 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
369 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
370
371 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
372 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
373 --ins=/magic/sequences
374 and where to search for the image data
375 --ind=/magic/data/star
376
377 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
378 dx/dy from the resource file by
379 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
380 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
381
382 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
383 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
384 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
385 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
386 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
387 in addition to its name to the logging output.
388
389 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
390 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
391 for on-only analysis'
392
393 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
394 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
395
396 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
397
398 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
399 they are commonly used.
400
401 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
402 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
403
404
405
406 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
407
408 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
409 how to calculate the threshold
410
411 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
412 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
413 and MagicReversi)
414
415 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
416
417 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
418
419 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
420 resource file resources/calibration.rc
421
422 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
423 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
424 automatic processing
425
426 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
427 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
428 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
429 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
430 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
431 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
432
433 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
434 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
435 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
436 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
437 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
438 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
439 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
440 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
441 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
442 be supressed.
443
444 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
445 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
446 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
447 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
448 algorithm)
449
450 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
451 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
452 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
453 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
454 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
455 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
456 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
457
458 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
459 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
460 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
461 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
462 understood.
463
464 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
465 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
466 are sorted by their sequence number.
467
468 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
469
470 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
471
472
473
474 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
475
476 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
477 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
478 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
479 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
480
481 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
482 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
483 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
484
485 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
486 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
487
488
489
490 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
491
492 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
493 MC binning
494
495 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
496 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
497
498 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
499
500 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
501
502 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
503
504 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
505
506 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
507 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
508
509 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
510 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
511 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
512 of the subsystem data
513
514 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
515 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
516
517 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
518 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
519
520 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
521
522 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
523
524 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
525
526 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
527
528 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
529 argument
530
531 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
532 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
533 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
534 (MCameraHV).
535
536 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
537 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
538
539 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
540 menu, eg in the TBrowser
541
542 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
543 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
544 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
545 This is important mainly for timing studies.
546
547 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
548 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
549 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
550 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
551 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
552 Introduced new limits:
553 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
554 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
555 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
556
557 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
558 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
559 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
560
561 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
562 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
563
564 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
565 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
566 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
567 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
568 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
569 to make the distribution reliable.
570
571 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
572 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
573 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
574 saturated and produced wrong limits.
575
576 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
577 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
578 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
579 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
580 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
581
582 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
583 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
584 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
585 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
586 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
587 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
588 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
589 a good precision is needed.
590
591 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
592 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
593
594 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
595 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
596 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
597 changes.
598
599 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
600 as calculated by MPedestalY2
601
602 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
603 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
604 calculated from interleaved events
605
606 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
607 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
608 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
609 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
610 task
611
612 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
613
614 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
615 DC currents
616
617 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
618 Pedestal Rms
619
620 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
621
622 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
623 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
624 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
625 became pedestal rms dependant
626
627 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
628 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
629
630 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
631 May/April 05
632
633 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
634 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
635
636 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
637
638 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
639
640 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
641 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
642 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
643
644 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
645
646 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
647 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
648 sqrt(2) to large
649
650 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
651 and a background model determined in the first loop is
652 subtracted
653
654 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
655 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
656 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
657
658 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
659 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
660 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
661
662 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
663 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
664 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
665
666 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
667 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
668 it off add
669 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
670 to your ganymed.rc
671
672 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
673 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
674 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
675
676 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
677
678
679
680 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
681
682 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
683 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
684
685 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
686 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
687 before any other tree.
688
689 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
690 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
691 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
692 correctly.
693
694 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
695
696 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
697 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
698 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
699 the run stored in the runheader.
700
701 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
702 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
703 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
704
705 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
706 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
707 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
708
709 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
710 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
711 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
712 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
713
714 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
715 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
716
717 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
718 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
719 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
720 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
721 is fixed to 1
722
723 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
724 more accurate now
725
726 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
727 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
728 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
729
730 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
731
732 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
733 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
734 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
735
736 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
737 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
738
739 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
740 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
741
742 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
743 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
744
745 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
746 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
747 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
748 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
749
750 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
751 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
752 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
753 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
754 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
755 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
756 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
757 the calibration constants by
758 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
759 and
760 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
761 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
762 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
763 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
764 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
765
766 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
767 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
768 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
769 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
770
771 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
772 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
773
774 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
775 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
776 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
777 NameHistFS: MHDisp
778 For details about the requirements of these plots look
779 at the corresponding classes
780
781 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
782 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
783 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
784 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
785 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
786 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
787 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
788
789 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
790 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
791 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
792
793 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
794 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
795 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
796 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
797 normalization is normally wrong.
798
799
800
801 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
802
803 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
804 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
805
806 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
807 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
808
809 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
810 because ProcessFile is missleading
811
812 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
813
814 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
815 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
816 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
817
818 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
819 versions newer than V200404070
820
821 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
822 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
823 (MCameraCentralPixel)
824
825 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
826 (MHVsSize)
827
828 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
829
830 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
831 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
832 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
833 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
834 can be canged
835
836 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
837 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
838 using showlog.
839
840 - showplot: improved
841 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
842 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
843 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
844 the printing command from the command line you can use all
845 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
846 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
847 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
848 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
849
850 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
851 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
852 intensity has been updated in some cases)
853
854 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
855 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
856 been taken with Pin Diode.
857
858 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
859 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
860
861 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
862 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
863
864 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
865 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
866 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
867 of the cosmisc
868
869 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
870 from 2.5 to 4.5
871
872 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
873 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
874 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
875 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
876
877 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
878 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
879 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
880 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
881 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
882 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
883 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
884 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
885 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
886 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
887 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
888 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
889 they are a lot slower)
890 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
891 random memory access it might by completely random!
892
893 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
894 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
895 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
896
897 - callisto:
898 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
899 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
900 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
901 Default: -9.0 +4.5
902 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
903
904 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
905 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
906
907 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
908 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
909 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
910 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
911 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
912 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
913 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
914 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
915
916 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
917 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
918
919 - callisto: for the common extractors
920 + MExtractFixedWindow
921 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
922 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
923 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
924 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
925 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
926
927 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
928 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
929 hilocalib_df6.root
930
931 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
932 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
933 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
934
935 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
936 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
937 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
938 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
939 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
940 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
941 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
942
943 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
944 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
945 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
946 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
947 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
948 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
949
950 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
951
952 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
953 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
954
955 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
956 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
957 changed only minimally
958
959 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
960 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
961 MJSpectrum (sponde)
962
963 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
964 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
965 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
966 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
967
968 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
969 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
970
971
972
973 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
974
975 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
976 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
977 by 0.2 slices)
978
979 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
980 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
981
982 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
983 also done with a intercalibration input file
984
985 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
986
987 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
988
989 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
990
991 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
992
993 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
994
995 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
996
997 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
998
999 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
1000 which is more than 5 times the variance
1001
1002 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
1003
1004 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
1005 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
1006
1007 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
1008 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
1009
1010 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
1011 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
1012
1013 - update the reference lines for the december data
1014
1015 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
1016 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
1017 pulse position changes much.
1018
1019 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
1020 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
1021 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
1022
1023 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
1024 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
1025 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
1026 runs a lot.
1027
1028 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
1029 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
1030
1031 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
1032 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
1033 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
1034 than with old versions (wrong units))
1035
1036 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
1037 formats are still unsupported by root)
1038
1039 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
1040 for automatic processing
1041
1042
1043
1044 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
1045
1046 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
1047 decided by the Collaboration Board
1048
1049 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
1050
1051 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
1052
1053 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
1054 and applied in callisto.
1055
1056 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
1057
1058 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
1059
1060 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
1061 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
1062
1063 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
1064 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
1065
1066 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
1067 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
1068 energy (Size) events.
1069
1070 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
1071
1072 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
1073 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
1074
1075 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1076 (MHexagonalFT)
1077
1078 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1079 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
1080
1081 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
1082 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
1083 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
1084
1085 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
1086
1087 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
1088
1089 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
1090 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
1091
1092 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
1093
1094 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
1095 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
1096 the slices by statistics
1097 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
1098 signal extractor without randomization
1099 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
1100 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
1101 randomly fixed)
1102 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
1103 long as nobody really needs it:
1104 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
1105 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
1106
1107 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
1108
1109 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
1110 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
1111 roughly 0.5%
1112
1113 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
1114 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
1115 batch mode possible:
1116 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
1117
1118 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
1119 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
1120
1121 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
1122 camera files.
1123
1124 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
1125
1126 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
1127 accurate now
1128
1129 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
1130 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
1131 * the new implementation is faster and
1132 * needs less storage space
1133
1134 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
1135 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
1136
1137 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
1138 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
1139
1140 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
1141
1142 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
1143
1144
1145
1146 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
1147
1148 - New combined signal and time extractor
1149 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1150
1151 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
1152 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
1153
1154 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
1155
1156 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
1157 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
1158 more): showlog
1159
1160 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
1161 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
1162
1163 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
1164 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
1165 source
1166
1167 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
1168 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
1169
1170 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
1171
1172 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
1173 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
1174
1175 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
1176 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1177
1178 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
1179 times the area ratio as cleaning level
1180 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1181
1182 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
1183 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
1184
1185 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
1186 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
1187
1188 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
1189 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
1190
1191 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
1192 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
1193 by a resource file: callisto.rc
1194
1195 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
1196 version 4)
1197
1198 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
1199 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
1200
1201 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
1202 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
1203 a resource file: star.rc
1204
1205 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
1206 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
1207
1208 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
1209 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
1210
1211 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
1212 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
1213 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
1214
1215 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
1216 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
1217 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
1218 MHTimeDiffTheta.
1219
1220 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
1221 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
1222 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
1223
1224 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
1225 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
1226 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
1227
1228
1229
1230 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
1231
1232 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
1233 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
1234
1235 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
1236
1237 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
1238
1239 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
1240
1241 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
1242
1243 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
1244 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
1245 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
1246
1247 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
1248
1249 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
1250 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
1251 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
1252
1253 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
1254 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
1255
1256 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
1257
1258 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
1259
1260
1261
1262 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
1263
1264 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
1265 MExtractTimeFastSpline
1266
1267 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
1268 ("pow(a, b)")
1269
1270 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
1271 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
1272
1273 - added support in MF for expressiond like
1274 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
1275
1276 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
1277 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
1278 is implemented through the new virtual function
1279 MParContainer::SetVariables
1280
1281 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
1282 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
1283
1284 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
1285 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
1286
1287 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
1288 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
1289
1290 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
1291 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
1292 and will replace them.
1293
1294 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
1295
1296 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
1297 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
1298 slices in the maximum window
1299
1300 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
1301 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
1302 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
1303 studies.
1304
1305 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
1306 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
1307 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
1308 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
1309
1310 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
1311 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
1312
1313 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
1314 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
1315 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
1316 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
1317 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
1318 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
1319
1320 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
1321 macro pedphotcalc.C
1322
1323 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
1324
1325 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
1326
1327 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
1328 minimizations
1329
1330 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
1331 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
1332
1333 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
1334
1335 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
1336 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
1337 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
1338
1339 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
1340 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
1341
1342 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
1343 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
1344
1345 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
1346
1347 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
1348
1349 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
1350
1351 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
1352
1353 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
1354
1355 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
1356 + MJPedestals
1357 + MJCalibration
1358 + MJExtractSignal
1359 Note: All of them are preliminary!
1360
1361 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
1362
1363 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
1364 the evolution of a sector vs time
1365
1366
1367
1368 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
1369
1370 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
1371 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
1372 camera version 0.7.
1373
1374 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
1375 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
1376
1377 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
1378
1379 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
1380 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
1381 be done soon.
1382
1383 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
1384 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
1385
1386 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
1387 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
1388 of time (readrep.C)
1389
1390 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
1391 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
1392 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
1393
1394 - Changed the name of the event trees:
1395 + Events --> Events
1396 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
1397 + CalEvents --> Calibration
1398
1399 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
1400
1401 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
1402
1403 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
1404 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
1405
1406 - added classes to calculate event rate
1407 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
1408
1409 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
1410
1411 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
1412
1413 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
1414 the new 'Synchonizer'
1415
1416
1417
1418 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
1419
1420 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
1421 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
1422 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
1423
1424 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
1425 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
1426 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
1427
1428 - added a new executable star which implements the
1429 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
1430 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
1431
1432 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
1433 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
1434 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
1435
1436 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
1437 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
1438
1439 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
1440
1441
1442
1443 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
1444
1445 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
1446 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
1447 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
1448 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
1449
1450 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
1451 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
1452
1453 - added pedestal calculation
1454
1455 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
1456 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
1457
1458 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
1459
1460 - added basic routines to apply padding
1461
1462 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
1463 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
1464
1465 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
1466 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
1467
1468 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
1469 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
1470
1471 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
1472 at all)
1473
1474 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
1475 ignore files
1476
1477 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
1478 to simulate the PMT camera
1479
1480 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
1481 programs in the MC chain.
1482
1483 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
1484 parameter in an eventloop.
1485
1486 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
1487 location (Long, Lat, etc)
1488
1489 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
1490
1491 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
1492 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
1493
1494 - added a new status display which can show the present status
1495 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
1496 an example can be found at status.C)
1497
1498 - reorganized directories:
1499 classes describing the image --> mimage
1500 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
1501 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
1502
1503 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
1504
1505 - colors in logging output to screen
1506
1507 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
1508 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
1509 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
1510 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
1511 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
1512
1513 - reading of reflector files
1514
1515 - display data from reflector files in the camera
1516
1517 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
1518
1519 - logarithmic scale in camera
1520
1521 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
1522
1523
1524
1525 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
1526
1527 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
1528
1529 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
1530 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
1531 missing a single NN)
1532
1533 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
1534 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
1535 have any neighbour)
1536
1537 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
1538 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
1539 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
1540 please ask Abelardo)
1541
1542 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
1543 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
1544
1545 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
1546
1547 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
1548 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
1549 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
1550 changed.
1551
1552 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
1553 (MHMatrix)
1554
1555 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
1556 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
1557
1558 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
1559 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
1560
1561 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
1562 event display gui.
1563
1564 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
1565
1566 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
1567
1568 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
1569
1570 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
1571 to MHillas
1572
1573 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
1574
1575 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
1576
1577 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
1578
1579 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
1580
1581 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
1582 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
1583 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
1584
1585 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
1586
1587 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
1588 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
1589
1590 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
1591 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
1592 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
1593 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
1594 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
1595
1596 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
1597 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
1598
1599 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
1600 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
1601
1602 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
1603 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
1604
1605 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
1606
1607 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
1608
1609 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
1610 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
1611
1612 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
1613 (thanks to Raquel)
1614
1615 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
1616 estfit.C) using a parametrization
1617
1618 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
1619 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
1620 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
1621
1622
1623
1624 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
1625
1626 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
1627 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
1628 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
1629 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
1630
1631 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
1632 for the collection area calculation
1633
1634 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
1635 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
1636
1637 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
1638 of one container
1639
1640 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
1641 ascii file
1642
1643 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
1644 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
1645 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
1646 hillas parameters)
1647
1648 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
1649 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
1650 see MHillas and MHillasExt
1651
1652 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
1653 see MHillasSrc
1654
1655 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
1656 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
1657 all histograms)
1658
1659 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
1660
1661 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
1662
1663 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
1664
1665 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
1666 an output stream instead of the whole container only
1667
1668 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
1669 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
1670
1671 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
1672 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
1673
1674 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
1675 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
1676
1677 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
1678
1679 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
1680 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
1681 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
1682
1683 - Added:
1684 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
1685 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
1686 they are needed in the flux calculation in
1687 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
1688 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
1689 of Theta and the true energy
1690
1691 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
1692 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
1693 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
1694 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
1695 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
1696 by unfolding
1697
1698 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
1699
1700
1701
1702 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
1703
1704 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
1705 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
1706 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
1707
1708 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
1709
1710 - Introduced verbosity levels
1711
1712 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
1713
1714 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
1715 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
1716
1717 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
1718 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
1719
1720 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
1721
1722 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
1723
1724 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
1725 of a parameter container for each event
1726
1727 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
1728
1729 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
1730
1731 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
1732 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
1733 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
1734
1735 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
1736 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
1737 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
1738
1739
1740
1741 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
1742
1743 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
1744
1745 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
1746 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
1747
1748 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
1749 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
1750 states
1751
1752 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
1753 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
1754
1755 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
1756
1757 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
1758 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
1759
1760 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
1761 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
1762
1763 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
1764 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
1765 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
1766
1767 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
1768 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
1769
1770 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
1771 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
1772
1773 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
1774 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
1775
1776
1777
1778 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
1779
1780 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
1781
1782 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
1783
1784 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
1785
1786 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
1787
1788 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
1789
1790 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
1791
1792 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
1793
1794 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
1795
1796 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
1797 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
1798
1799
1800
1801 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
1802
1803 - Many demo macros added
1804
1805 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
1806
1807 - Hillas Calculation added
1808
1809 - Standard image cleaning available
1810
1811 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
1812 (Remark: of the same structure)
1813
1814 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
1815 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
1816 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
1817
1818
1819
1820 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
1821
1822 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
1823 gui with the command mars.
1824
1825
1826
1827 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
1828
1829 - First official release 0.1
1830
1831 - Changes:
1832
1833 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
1834 while-loop
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