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5 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
6 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
7 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
8
9 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
10
11 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
12
13 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
14 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
15 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
16
17 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
18 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
19
20 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
21 callisto_mux.rc
22
23 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
24 been removed
25
26 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
27 replaced by the MC sequence number
28
29 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
30 -mc option can now be omitted
31
32 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
33 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
34
35 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
36 for further simplification
37
38 - callisto: for simplification removed references to MBadPixelsIntensityCam,
39 MCalibrationIntensityQECam, MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam,
40 MCalibrationIntensityTestCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
41 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
42 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled properly)
43
44 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
45 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
46 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
47 IACT wiki
48 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
49
50 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
51
52 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
53 the pedestal into account
54
55 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
56 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
57 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
58
59 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
60 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
61 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
62 calibration.
63
64 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
65 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
66 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
67 plus an absolute offset.
68
69 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
70 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
71
72 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
73 outlaying offset as unsuitable
74
75 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
76 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
77 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
78 the relative time calibration seems stable.
79
80 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
81 option can now be omitted.
82
83 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
84 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
85 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
86 dataset file.
87
88 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
89 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
90
91 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
92 for wobble mode
93
94
95
96 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
97
98 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
99
100 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
101 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
102
103 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
104 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
105
106 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
107 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
108 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
109
110 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
111 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
112 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
113 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
114
115 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
116 wrong results.
117
118 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
119
120 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
121 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
122
123 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
124 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
125 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
126 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
127 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
128 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
129
130 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
131
132 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
133 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
134 extractions done
135 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
136 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
137 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
138 not a copy-and-pasted one)
139 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
140 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
141 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
142 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
143 and time which is consistent is returned
144 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
145 solution
146 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
147 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
148 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
149 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
150 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
151 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
152 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
153 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
154
155 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
156 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
157 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
158 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
159 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
160 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
161 temperature effects?)
162
163 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
164 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
165 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
166
167 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
168 light condition to be ignored
169
170 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
171 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
172 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
173 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
174 the "SparkCut" directive
175
176 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
177 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
178
179 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
180 in the new phrase parsing
181
182 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
183 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
184 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
185 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
186 the other options)
187 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
188
189 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
190 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
191 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
192
193 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
194 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
195 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
196
197 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
198
199 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
200
201 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
202 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
203 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
204 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
205 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
206 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
207 or the collection area dominate.
208
209
210
211 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
212
213 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
214
215 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
216 websites.
217
218 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
219 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
220
221 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
222 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
223 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
224 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
225
226 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
227 doesn't exist.
228
229 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
230 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
231
232 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
233 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
234 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
235
236 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
237 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
238 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
239 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
240
241 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
242 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
243 write them into a file in the future)
244
245 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
246 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
247 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
248 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
249 the "DrawAll" option)
250 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
251
252
253
254 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
255
256 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
257 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
258 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
259 wobble source/project
260
261 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
262 moon properties
263
264 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
265 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
266 or of one star along one year
267
268
269
270 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
271
272 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
273
274 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
275 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
276 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
277
278 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
279 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
280 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
281 properly into account... fixed.
282
283
284
285 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
286
287 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
288 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
289 code in this case is 255.
290
291 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
292 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
293 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
294 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
295 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
296 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
297 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
298 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
299 no-more used instead)
300
301 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
302 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
303
304 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
305 on in the compiler
306
307 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
308 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
309 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
310
311 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
312 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
313 is with "-1")
314
315 - showplot:
316 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
317 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
318 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
319 + added support for xml
320 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
321 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
322 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
323 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
324 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
325 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
326 desktop-size: --auto-size
327
328 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
329
330 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
331 program.
332
333 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
334 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
335
336 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
337 not be opened.
338
339 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
340 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
341 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
342 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
343 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
344 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
345
346 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
347 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
348 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
349 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
350 by the lo-gain extractor
351
352 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
353
354 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
355 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
356 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
357
358 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
359 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
360 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
361 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
362 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
363 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
364 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
365
366 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
367 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
368 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
369 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
370
371 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
372 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
373 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
374 slice has been forbidden)
375
376 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
377 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
378 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
379
380 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
381
382 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
383 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
384 calibration update has happend.
385
386 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
387 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
388 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
389 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
390 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
391 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
392 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
393 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
394 test-database.
395
396 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
397 time. It never gave useful information.
398
399 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
400 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
401 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
402 LoGainSwitch.
403
404 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
405 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
406 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
407 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
408 the LoGainSwitch.
409
410 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
411 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
412 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
413 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
414 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
415
416 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
417 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
418 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
419 because it doesn't involve a fit)
420
421 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
422 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
423 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
424 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
425 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
426 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
427 the bahaviour with two resource values:
428 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
429 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
430 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
431 from the resulting gamma candidates
432
433 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
434 with the colz draw-option
435
436 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
437
438 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
439 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
440 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
441 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
442
443 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
444 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
445 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
446 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
447 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
448
449 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
450 how to use random forest
451
452 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
453 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
454
455 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
456 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
457 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
458 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
459
460 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
461 a MC slope of -1.
462
463
464
465 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
466
467 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
468 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
469
470 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
471 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
472 respectively
473
474 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
475
476 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
477
478 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
479 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
480 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
481 by this arbitrary value.
482
483 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
484 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
485 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
486 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
487
488 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
489 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
490 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
491
492 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
493
494 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
495 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
496 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
497 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
498 histograms.
499 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
500 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
501 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
502
503 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
504 starguider
505
506 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
507 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
508 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
509 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
510 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
511 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
512 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
513 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
514
515 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
516 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
517 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
518 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
519 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
520
521 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
522 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
523
524
525
526 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
527
528 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
529 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
530
531 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
532 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
533 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
534
535 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
536 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
537
538 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
539
540 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
541
542 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
543 after 6.3.2006
544
545 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
546 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
547 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
548 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
549
550 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
551 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
552 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
553 Recommended parameters:
554 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
555 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
556 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
557 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
558
559 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
560 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
561 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
562 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
563 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
564 time-scale) are missing.
565
566 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
567 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
568 people for weak sources.
569
570 - macros: plotdb.C:
571 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
572 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
573 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
574 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
575
576 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
577 the optimization became a lot faster
578
579 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
580 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
581
582 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
583 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
584 initialization of the starguider calibration
585
586 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
587 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
588 resource file using:
589 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
590 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
591
592 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
593 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
594 The bug did not effect the results at all.
595
596 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
597 trigger (including the software trigger)
598
599 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
600 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
601 a defined energy:
602 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
603
604 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
605 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
606
607
608
609 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
610
611 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
612 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
613
614 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
615 to plot statistics about the data processing
616
617 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
618 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
619
620 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
621
622 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
623 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
624 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
625 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
626
627 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
628 different values for different periods
629
630 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
631 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
632 effective on-time)
633
634 - star: Added two new image parameters:
635 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
636 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
637 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
638 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
639
640 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
641
642 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
643 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
644 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
645 + the anti theta cut is better supported
646 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
647 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
648
649 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
650 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
651
652 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
653
654 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
655 to 0.06
656
657 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
658 resource file.
659 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
660
661 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
662 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
663 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
664 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
665 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
666
667 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
668 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
669
670 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
671 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
672 on-data.
673
674
675
676 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
677
678 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
679 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
680
681 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
682 are now possible:
683 showlog callisto 55599
684 showplot signal 55599
685 star 55599
686 callisto 55999
687 ganymed 2
688 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
689 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
690 paths ("/magic/*")
691
692 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
693 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
694
695 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
696 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
697
698 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
699 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
700 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
701 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
702
703 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
704 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
705 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
706 forest.
707
708 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
709 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
710 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
711
712 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
713 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
714
715 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
716 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
717
718 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
719 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
720 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
721 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
722 size ratio.
723
724 - RanForest:
725 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
726 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
727 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
728 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
729 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
730 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
731 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
732 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
733
734 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
735 the events to be displayed, eg:
736 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
737 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
738 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
739
740 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
741 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
742 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
743 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
744 written to the CC tree.
745
746 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
747 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
748 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
749 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
750 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
751 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
752
753 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
754 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
755 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
756 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
757
758 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
759 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
760 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
761
762 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
763 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
764
765 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
766 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
767 --ins=/magic/sequences
768 and where to search for the image data
769 --ind=/magic/data/star
770
771 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
772 dx/dy from the resource file by
773 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
774 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
775
776 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
777 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
778 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
779 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
780 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
781 in addition to its name to the logging output.
782
783 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
784 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
785 for on-only analysis'
786
787 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
788 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
789
790 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
791
792 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
793 they are commonly used.
794
795 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
796 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
797
798
799
800 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
801
802 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
803 how to calculate the threshold
804
805 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
806 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
807 and MagicReversi)
808
809 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
810
811 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
812
813 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
814 resource file resources/calibration.rc
815
816 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
817 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
818 automatic processing
819
820 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
821 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
822 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
823 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
824 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
825 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
826
827 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
828 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
829 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
830 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
831 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
832 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
833 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
834 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
835 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
836 be supressed.
837
838 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
839 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
840 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
841 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
842 algorithm)
843
844 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
845 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
846 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
847 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
848 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
849 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
850 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
851
852 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
853 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
854 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
855 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
856 understood.
857
858 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
859 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
860 are sorted by their sequence number.
861
862 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
863
864 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
865
866
867
868 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
869
870 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
871 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
872 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
873 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
874
875 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
876 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
877 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
878
879 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
880 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
881
882
883
884 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
885
886 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
887 MC binning
888
889 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
890 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
891
892 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
893
894 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
895
896 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
897
898 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
899
900 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
901 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
902
903 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
904 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
905 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
906 of the subsystem data
907
908 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
909 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
910
911 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
912 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
913
914 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
915
916 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
917
918 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
919
920 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
921
922 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
923 argument
924
925 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
926 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
927 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
928 (MCameraHV).
929
930 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
931 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
932
933 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
934 menu, eg in the TBrowser
935
936 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
937 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
938 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
939 This is important mainly for timing studies.
940
941 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
942 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
943 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
944 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
945 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
946 Introduced new limits:
947 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
948 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
949 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
950
951 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
952 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
953 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
954
955 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
956 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
957
958 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
959 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
960 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
961 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
962 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
963 to make the distribution reliable.
964
965 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
966 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
967 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
968 saturated and produced wrong limits.
969
970 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
971 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
972 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
973 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
974 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
975
976 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
977 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
978 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
979 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
980 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
981 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
982 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
983 a good precision is needed.
984
985 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
986 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
987
988 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
989 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
990 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
991 changes.
992
993 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
994 as calculated by MPedestalY2
995
996 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
997 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
998 calculated from interleaved events
999
1000 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1001 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1002 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1003 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1004 task
1005
1006 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1007
1008 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1009 DC currents
1010
1011 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1012 Pedestal Rms
1013
1014 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1015
1016 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1017 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1018 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1019 became pedestal rms dependant
1020
1021 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1022 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1023
1024 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1025 May/April 05
1026
1027 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1028 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1029
1030 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1031
1032 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1033
1034 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1035 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1036 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1037
1038 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1039
1040 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1041 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1042 sqrt(2) to large
1043
1044 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1045 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1046 subtracted
1047
1048 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1049 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1050 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1051
1052 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1053 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1054 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1055
1056 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1057 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1058 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1059
1060 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1061 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1062 it off add
1063 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1064 to your ganymed.rc
1065
1066 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1067 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1068 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1069
1070 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1071
1072
1073
1074 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1075
1076 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1077 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1078
1079 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1080 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1081 before any other tree.
1082
1083 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1084 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1085 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1086 correctly.
1087
1088 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1089
1090 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1091 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1092 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1093 the run stored in the runheader.
1094
1095 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1096 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1097 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1098
1099 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1100 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1101 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1102
1103 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1104 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1105 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1106 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1107
1108 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1109 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1110
1111 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1112 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1113 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1114 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1115 is fixed to 1
1116
1117 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1118 more accurate now
1119
1120 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1121 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1122 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1123
1124 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1125
1126 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1127 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1128 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1129
1130 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1131 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1132
1133 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1134 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1135
1136 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1137 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1138
1139 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1140 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1141 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1142 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1143
1144 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1145 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1146 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1147 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1148 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1149 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1150 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1151 the calibration constants by
1152 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1153 and
1154 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1155 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1156 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1157 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1158 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1159
1160 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1161 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1162 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1163 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1164
1165 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1166 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1167
1168 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1169 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1170 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1171 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1172 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1173 at the corresponding classes
1174
1175 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1176 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1177 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1178 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1179 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1180 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1181 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1182
1183 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
1184 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
1185 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
1186
1187 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
1188 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
1189 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
1190 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
1191 normalization is normally wrong.
1192
1193
1194
1195 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
1196
1197 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
1198 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
1199
1200 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
1201 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
1202
1203 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
1204 because ProcessFile is missleading
1205
1206 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
1207
1208 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
1209 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
1210 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
1211
1212 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
1213 versions newer than V200404070
1214
1215 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
1216 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
1217 (MCameraCentralPixel)
1218
1219 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
1220 (MHVsSize)
1221
1222 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
1223
1224 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
1225 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
1226 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
1227 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
1228 can be canged
1229
1230 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
1231 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
1232 using showlog.
1233
1234 - showplot: improved
1235 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
1236 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
1237 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
1238 the printing command from the command line you can use all
1239 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
1240 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
1241 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
1242 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
1243
1244 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
1245 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
1246 intensity has been updated in some cases)
1247
1248 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
1249 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
1250 been taken with Pin Diode.
1251
1252 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
1253 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
1254
1255 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
1256 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
1257
1258 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
1259 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
1260 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
1261 of the cosmisc
1262
1263 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
1264 from 2.5 to 4.5
1265
1266 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
1267 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
1268 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
1269 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
1270
1271 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
1272 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
1273 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
1274 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
1275 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
1276 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
1277 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
1278 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
1279 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
1280 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
1281 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
1282 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
1283 they are a lot slower)
1284 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
1285 random memory access it might by completely random!
1286
1287 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
1288 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
1289 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
1290
1291 - callisto:
1292 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
1293 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
1294 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
1295 Default: -9.0 +4.5
1296 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
1297
1298 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
1299 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
1300
1301 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
1302 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
1303 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
1304 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
1305 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
1306 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
1307 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
1308 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
1309
1310 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
1311 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
1312
1313 - callisto: for the common extractors
1314 + MExtractFixedWindow
1315 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
1316 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
1317 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1318 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
1319 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
1320
1321 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
1322 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
1323 hilocalib_df6.root
1324
1325 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
1326 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
1327 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
1328
1329 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
1330 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
1331 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
1332 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
1333 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
1334 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
1335 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
1336
1337 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
1338 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
1339 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
1340 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
1341 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
1342 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
1343
1344 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
1345
1346 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
1347 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
1348
1349 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
1350 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
1351 changed only minimally
1352
1353 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
1354 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
1355 MJSpectrum (sponde)
1356
1357 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
1358 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
1359 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
1360 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
1361
1362 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
1363 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
1364
1365
1366
1367 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
1368
1369 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
1370 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
1371 by 0.2 slices)
1372
1373 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
1374 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
1375
1376 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
1377 also done with a intercalibration input file
1378
1379 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
1380
1381 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
1382
1383 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
1384
1385 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
1386
1387 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
1388
1389 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
1390
1391 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
1392
1393 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
1394 which is more than 5 times the variance
1395
1396 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
1397
1398 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
1399 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
1400
1401 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
1402 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
1403
1404 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
1405 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
1406
1407 - update the reference lines for the december data
1408
1409 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
1410 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
1411 pulse position changes much.
1412
1413 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
1414 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
1415 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
1416
1417 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
1418 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
1419 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
1420 runs a lot.
1421
1422 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
1423 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
1424
1425 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
1426 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
1427 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
1428 than with old versions (wrong units))
1429
1430 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
1431 formats are still unsupported by root)
1432
1433 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
1434 for automatic processing
1435
1436
1437
1438 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
1439
1440 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
1441 decided by the Collaboration Board
1442
1443 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
1444
1445 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
1446
1447 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
1448 and applied in callisto.
1449
1450 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
1451
1452 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
1453
1454 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
1455 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
1456
1457 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
1458 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
1459
1460 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
1461 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
1462 energy (Size) events.
1463
1464 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
1465
1466 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
1467 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
1468
1469 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1470 (MHexagonalFT)
1471
1472 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1473 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
1474
1475 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
1476 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
1477 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
1478
1479 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
1480
1481 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
1482
1483 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
1484 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
1485
1486 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
1487
1488 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
1489 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
1490 the slices by statistics
1491 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
1492 signal extractor without randomization
1493 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
1494 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
1495 randomly fixed)
1496 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
1497 long as nobody really needs it:
1498 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
1499 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
1500
1501 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
1502
1503 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
1504 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
1505 roughly 0.5%
1506
1507 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
1508 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
1509 batch mode possible:
1510 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
1511
1512 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
1513 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
1514
1515 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
1516 camera files.
1517
1518 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
1519
1520 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
1521 accurate now
1522
1523 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
1524 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
1525 * the new implementation is faster and
1526 * needs less storage space
1527
1528 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
1529 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
1530
1531 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
1532 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
1533
1534 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
1535
1536 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
1537
1538
1539
1540 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
1541
1542 - New combined signal and time extractor
1543 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1544
1545 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
1546 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
1547
1548 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
1549
1550 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
1551 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
1552 more): showlog
1553
1554 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
1555 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
1556
1557 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
1558 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
1559 source
1560
1561 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
1562 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
1563
1564 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
1565
1566 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
1567 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
1568
1569 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
1570 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1571
1572 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
1573 times the area ratio as cleaning level
1574 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1575
1576 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
1577 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
1578
1579 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
1580 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
1581
1582 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
1583 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
1584
1585 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
1586 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
1587 by a resource file: callisto.rc
1588
1589 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
1590 version 4)
1591
1592 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
1593 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
1594
1595 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
1596 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
1597 a resource file: star.rc
1598
1599 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
1600 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
1601
1602 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
1603 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
1604
1605 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
1606 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
1607 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
1608
1609 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
1610 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
1611 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
1612 MHTimeDiffTheta.
1613
1614 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
1615 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
1616 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
1617
1618 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
1619 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
1620 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
1621
1622
1623
1624 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
1625
1626 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
1627 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
1628
1629 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
1630
1631 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
1632
1633 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
1634
1635 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
1636
1637 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
1638 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
1639 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
1640
1641 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
1642
1643 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
1644 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
1645 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
1646
1647 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
1648 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
1649
1650 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
1651
1652 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
1653
1654
1655
1656 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
1657
1658 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
1659 MExtractTimeFastSpline
1660
1661 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
1662 ("pow(a, b)")
1663
1664 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
1665 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
1666
1667 - added support in MF for expressiond like
1668 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
1669
1670 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
1671 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
1672 is implemented through the new virtual function
1673 MParContainer::SetVariables
1674
1675 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
1676 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
1677
1678 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
1679 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
1680
1681 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
1682 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
1683
1684 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
1685 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
1686 and will replace them.
1687
1688 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
1689
1690 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
1691 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
1692 slices in the maximum window
1693
1694 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
1695 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
1696 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
1697 studies.
1698
1699 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
1700 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
1701 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
1702 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
1703
1704 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
1705 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
1706
1707 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
1708 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
1709 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
1710 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
1711 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
1712 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
1713
1714 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
1715 macro pedphotcalc.C
1716
1717 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
1718
1719 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
1720
1721 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
1722 minimizations
1723
1724 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
1725 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
1726
1727 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
1728
1729 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
1730 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
1731 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
1732
1733 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
1734 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
1735
1736 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
1737 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
1738
1739 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
1740
1741 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
1742
1743 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
1744
1745 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
1746
1747 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
1748
1749 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
1750 + MJPedestals
1751 + MJCalibration
1752 + MJExtractSignal
1753 Note: All of them are preliminary!
1754
1755 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
1756
1757 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
1758 the evolution of a sector vs time
1759
1760
1761
1762 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
1763
1764 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
1765 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
1766 camera version 0.7.
1767
1768 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
1769 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
1770
1771 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
1772
1773 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
1774 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
1775 be done soon.
1776
1777 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
1778 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
1779
1780 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
1781 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
1782 of time (readrep.C)
1783
1784 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
1785 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
1786 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
1787
1788 - Changed the name of the event trees:
1789 + Events --> Events
1790 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
1791 + CalEvents --> Calibration
1792
1793 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
1794
1795 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
1796
1797 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
1798 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
1799
1800 - added classes to calculate event rate
1801 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
1802
1803 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
1804
1805 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
1806
1807 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
1808 the new 'Synchonizer'
1809
1810
1811
1812 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
1813
1814 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
1815 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
1816 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
1817
1818 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
1819 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
1820 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
1821
1822 - added a new executable star which implements the
1823 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
1824 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
1825
1826 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
1827 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
1828 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
1829
1830 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
1831 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
1832
1833 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
1834
1835
1836
1837 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
1838
1839 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
1840 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
1841 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
1842 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
1843
1844 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
1845 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
1846
1847 - added pedestal calculation
1848
1849 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
1850 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
1851
1852 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
1853
1854 - added basic routines to apply padding
1855
1856 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
1857 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
1858
1859 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
1860 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
1861
1862 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
1863 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
1864
1865 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
1866 at all)
1867
1868 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
1869 ignore files
1870
1871 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
1872 to simulate the PMT camera
1873
1874 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
1875 programs in the MC chain.
1876
1877 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
1878 parameter in an eventloop.
1879
1880 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
1881 location (Long, Lat, etc)
1882
1883 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
1884
1885 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
1886 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
1887
1888 - added a new status display which can show the present status
1889 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
1890 an example can be found at status.C)
1891
1892 - reorganized directories:
1893 classes describing the image --> mimage
1894 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
1895 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
1896
1897 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
1898
1899 - colors in logging output to screen
1900
1901 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
1902 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
1903 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
1904 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
1905 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
1906
1907 - reading of reflector files
1908
1909 - display data from reflector files in the camera
1910
1911 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
1912
1913 - logarithmic scale in camera
1914
1915 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
1916
1917
1918
1919 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
1920
1921 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
1922
1923 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
1924 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
1925 missing a single NN)
1926
1927 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
1928 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
1929 have any neighbour)
1930
1931 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
1932 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
1933 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
1934 please ask Abelardo)
1935
1936 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
1937 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
1938
1939 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
1940
1941 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
1942 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
1943 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
1944 changed.
1945
1946 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
1947 (MHMatrix)
1948
1949 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
1950 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
1951
1952 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
1953 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
1954
1955 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
1956 event display gui.
1957
1958 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
1959
1960 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
1961
1962 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
1963
1964 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
1965 to MHillas
1966
1967 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
1968
1969 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
1970
1971 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
1972
1973 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
1974
1975 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
1976 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
1977 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
1978
1979 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
1980
1981 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
1982 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
1983
1984 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
1985 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
1986 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
1987 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
1988 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
1989
1990 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
1991 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
1992
1993 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
1994 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
1995
1996 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
1997 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
1998
1999 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2000
2001 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2002
2003 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2004 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2005
2006 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2007 (thanks to Raquel)
2008
2009 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2010 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2011
2012 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2013 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2014 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2015
2016
2017
2018 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2019
2020 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2021 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2022 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2023 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2024
2025 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2026 for the collection area calculation
2027
2028 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2029 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2030
2031 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2032 of one container
2033
2034 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2035 ascii file
2036
2037 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2038 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2039 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2040 hillas parameters)
2041
2042 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2043 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2044 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2045
2046 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2047 see MHillasSrc
2048
2049 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2050 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2051 all histograms)
2052
2053 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2054
2055 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2056
2057 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2058
2059 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2060 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2061
2062 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2063 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2064
2065 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2066 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2067
2068 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2069 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2070
2071 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2072
2073 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2074 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2075 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2076
2077 - Added:
2078 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2079 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2080 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2081 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2082 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2083 of Theta and the true energy
2084
2085 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2086 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2087 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2088 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2089 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2090 by unfolding
2091
2092 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2093
2094
2095
2096 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2097
2098 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2099 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2100 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2101
2102 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2103
2104 - Introduced verbosity levels
2105
2106 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2107
2108 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2109 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2110
2111 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2112 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2113
2114 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2115
2116 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2117
2118 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2119 of a parameter container for each event
2120
2121 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2122
2123 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2124
2125 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2126 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2127 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2128
2129 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2130 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2131 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2132
2133
2134
2135 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2136
2137 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2138
2139 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2140 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2141
2142 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2143 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2144 states
2145
2146 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2147 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2148
2149 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2150
2151 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2152 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2153
2154 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2155 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2156
2157 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2158 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2159 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2160
2161 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2162 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2163
2164 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2165 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2166
2167 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2168 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2169
2170
2171
2172 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2173
2174 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2175
2176 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2177
2178 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2179
2180 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2181
2182 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
2183
2184 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
2185
2186 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
2187
2188 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
2189
2190 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
2191 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
2192
2193
2194
2195 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
2196
2197 - Many demo macros added
2198
2199 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
2200
2201 - Hillas Calculation added
2202
2203 - Standard image cleaning available
2204
2205 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
2206 (Remark: of the same structure)
2207
2208 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
2209 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
2210 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
2211
2212
2213
2214 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
2215
2216 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
2217 gui with the command mars.
2218
2219
2220
2221 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
2222
2223 - First official release 0.1
2224
2225 - Changes:
2226
2227 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
2228 while-loop
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