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3 *** <cvs>
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8 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/15)
9
10 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
11 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
12 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
13 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
14 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
15 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
16
17 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
18 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
19 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
20 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
21 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
22 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
23
24 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
25 properly because the callisto output was currupted
26
27 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
28 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
29 sequence with different setup.
30
31 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
32 code from cvs.
33
34 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
35 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
36 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
37 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
38
39 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
40 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
41 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
42 from th elo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
43 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
44 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
45 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
46 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
47 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
48 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
49 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
50 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
51 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
52 avoidable bias.
53
54 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
55 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
56 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
57 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
58 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
59 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
60
61 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
62 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
63 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
64 problems.
65
66 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
67 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
68 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
69 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
70
71 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
72 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
73 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
74 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
75 ("HeightTm") to -1:
76 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
77 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
78
79
80
81
82 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
83
84 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
85 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
86 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
87
88 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
89
90 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
91
92 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
93 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
94 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
95
96 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
97 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
98
99 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
100 callisto_mux.rc
101
102 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
103 been removed
104
105 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
106 replaced by the MC sequence number
107
108 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
109 -mc option can now be omitted
110
111 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
112 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
113
114 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
115 for further simplification
116
117 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
118 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
119 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
120 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
121 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
122 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
123 properly)
124
125 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
126 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
127 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
128 IACT wiki
129 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
130
131 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
132
133 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
134 the pedestal into account
135
136 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
137 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
138 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
139
140 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
141 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
142 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
143 calibration.
144
145 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
146 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
147 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
148 plus an absolute offset.
149
150 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
151 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
152
153 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
154 outlaying offset as unsuitable
155
156 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
157 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
158 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
159 the relative time calibration seems stable.
160
161 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
162 option can now be omitted.
163
164 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
165 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
166 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
167 dataset file.
168
169 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
170 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
171
172 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
173 for wobble mode
174
175 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
176 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
177 has been added, executed before writing the final output
178 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
179 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
180 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
181 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
182
183 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
184 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
185 it will be written to the output file.
186
187
188
189 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
190
191 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
192
193 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
194 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
195
196 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
197 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
198
199 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
200 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
201 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
202
203 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
204 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
205 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
206 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
207
208 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
209 wrong results.
210
211 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
212
213 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
214 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
215
216 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
217 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
218 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
219 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
220 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
221 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
222
223 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
224
225 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
226 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
227 extractions done
228 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
229 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
230 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
231 not a copy-and-pasted one)
232 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
233 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
234 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
235 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
236 and time which is consistent is returned
237 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
238 solution
239 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
240 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
241 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
242 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
243 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
244 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
245 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
246 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
247
248 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
249 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
250 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
251 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
252 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
253 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
254 temperature effects?)
255
256 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
257 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
258 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
259
260 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
261 light condition to be ignored
262
263 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
264 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
265 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
266 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
267 the "SparkCut" directive
268
269 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
270 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
271
272 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
273 in the new phrase parsing
274
275 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
276 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
277 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
278 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
279 the other options)
280 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
281
282 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
283 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
284 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
285
286 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
287 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
288 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
289
290 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
291
292 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
293
294 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
295 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
296 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
297 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
298 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
299 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
300 or the collection area dominate.
301
302
303
304 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
305
306 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
307
308 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
309 websites.
310
311 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
312 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
313
314 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
315 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
316 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
317 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
318
319 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
320 doesn't exist.
321
322 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
323 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
324
325 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
326 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
327 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
328
329 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
330 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
331 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
332 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
333
334 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
335 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
336 write them into a file in the future)
337
338 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
339 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
340 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
341 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
342 the "DrawAll" option)
343 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
344
345
346
347 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
348
349 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
350 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
351 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
352 wobble source/project
353
354 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
355 moon properties
356
357 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
358 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
359 or of one star along one year
360
361
362
363 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
364
365 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
366
367 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
368 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
369 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
370
371 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
372 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
373 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
374 properly into account... fixed.
375
376
377
378 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
379
380 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
381 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
382 code in this case is 255.
383
384 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
385 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
386 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
387 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
388 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
389 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
390 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
391 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
392 no-more used instead)
393
394 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
395 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
396
397 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
398 on in the compiler
399
400 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
401 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
402 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
403
404 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
405 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
406 is with "-1")
407
408 - showplot:
409 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
410 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
411 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
412 + added support for xml
413 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
414 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
415 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
416 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
417 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
418 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
419 desktop-size: --auto-size
420
421 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
422
423 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
424 program.
425
426 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
427 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
428
429 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
430 not be opened.
431
432 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
433 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
434 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
435 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
436 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
437 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
438
439 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
440 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
441 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
442 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
443 by the lo-gain extractor
444
445 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
446
447 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
448 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
449 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
450
451 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
452 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
453 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
454 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
455 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
456 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
457 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
458
459 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
460 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
461 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
462 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
463
464 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
465 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
466 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
467 slice has been forbidden)
468
469 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
470 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
471 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
472
473 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
474
475 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
476 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
477 calibration update has happend.
478
479 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
480 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
481 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
482 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
483 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
484 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
485 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
486 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
487 test-database.
488
489 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
490 time. It never gave useful information.
491
492 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
493 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
494 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
495 LoGainSwitch.
496
497 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
498 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
499 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
500 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
501 the LoGainSwitch.
502
503 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
504 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
505 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
506 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
507 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
508
509 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
510 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
511 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
512 because it doesn't involve a fit)
513
514 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
515 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
516 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
517 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
518 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
519 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
520 the bahaviour with two resource values:
521 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
522 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
523 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
524 from the resulting gamma candidates
525
526 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
527 with the colz draw-option
528
529 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
530
531 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
532 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
533 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
534 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
535
536 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
537 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
538 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
539 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
540 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
541
542 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
543 how to use random forest
544
545 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
546 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
547
548 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
549 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
550 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
551 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
552
553 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
554 a MC slope of -1.
555
556
557
558 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
559
560 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
561 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
562
563 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
564 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
565 respectively
566
567 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
568
569 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
570
571 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
572 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
573 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
574 by this arbitrary value.
575
576 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
577 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
578 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
579 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
580
581 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
582 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
583 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
584
585 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
586
587 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
588 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
589 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
590 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
591 histograms.
592 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
593 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
594 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
595
596 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
597 starguider
598
599 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
600 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
601 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
602 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
603 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
604 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
605 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
606 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
607
608 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
609 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
610 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
611 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
612 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
613
614 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
615 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
616
617
618
619 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
620
621 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
622 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
623
624 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
625 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
626 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
627
628 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
629 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
630
631 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
632
633 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
634
635 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
636 after 6.3.2006
637
638 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
639 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
640 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
641 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
642
643 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
644 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
645 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
646 Recommended parameters:
647 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
648 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
649 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
650 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
651
652 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
653 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
654 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
655 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
656 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
657 time-scale) are missing.
658
659 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
660 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
661 people for weak sources.
662
663 - macros: plotdb.C:
664 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
665 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
666 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
667 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
668
669 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
670 the optimization became a lot faster
671
672 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
673 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
674
675 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
676 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
677 initialization of the starguider calibration
678
679 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
680 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
681 resource file using:
682 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
683 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
684
685 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
686 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
687 The bug did not effect the results at all.
688
689 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
690 trigger (including the software trigger)
691
692 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
693 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
694 a defined energy:
695 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
696
697 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
698 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
699
700
701
702 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
703
704 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
705 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
706
707 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
708 to plot statistics about the data processing
709
710 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
711 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
712
713 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
714
715 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
716 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
717 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
718 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
719
720 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
721 different values for different periods
722
723 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
724 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
725 effective on-time)
726
727 - star: Added two new image parameters:
728 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
729 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
730 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
731 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
732
733 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
734
735 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
736 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
737 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
738 + the anti theta cut is better supported
739 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
740 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
741
742 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
743 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
744
745 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
746
747 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
748 to 0.06
749
750 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
751 resource file.
752 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
753
754 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
755 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
756 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
757 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
758 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
759
760 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
761 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
762
763 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
764 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
765 on-data.
766
767
768
769 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
770
771 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
772 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
773
774 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
775 are now possible:
776 showlog callisto 55599
777 showplot signal 55599
778 star 55599
779 callisto 55999
780 ganymed 2
781 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
782 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
783 paths ("/magic/*")
784
785 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
786 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
787
788 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
789 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
790
791 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
792 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
793 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
794 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
795
796 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
797 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
798 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
799 forest.
800
801 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
802 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
803 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
804
805 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
806 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
807
808 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
809 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
810
811 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
812 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
813 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
814 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
815 size ratio.
816
817 - RanForest:
818 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
819 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
820 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
821 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
822 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
823 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
824 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
825 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
826
827 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
828 the events to be displayed, eg:
829 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
830 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
831 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
832
833 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
834 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
835 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
836 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
837 written to the CC tree.
838
839 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
840 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
841 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
842 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
843 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
844 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
845
846 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
847 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
848 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
849 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
850
851 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
852 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
853 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
854
855 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
856 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
857
858 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
859 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
860 --ins=/magic/sequences
861 and where to search for the image data
862 --ind=/magic/data/star
863
864 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
865 dx/dy from the resource file by
866 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
867 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
868
869 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
870 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
871 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
872 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
873 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
874 in addition to its name to the logging output.
875
876 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
877 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
878 for on-only analysis'
879
880 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
881 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
882
883 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
884
885 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
886 they are commonly used.
887
888 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
889 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
890
891
892
893 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
894
895 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
896 how to calculate the threshold
897
898 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
899 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
900 and MagicReversi)
901
902 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
903
904 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
905
906 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
907 resource file resources/calibration.rc
908
909 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
910 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
911 automatic processing
912
913 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
914 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
915 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
916 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
917 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
918 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
919
920 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
921 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
922 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
923 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
924 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
925 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
926 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
927 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
928 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
929 be supressed.
930
931 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
932 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
933 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
934 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
935 algorithm)
936
937 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
938 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
939 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
940 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
941 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
942 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
943 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
944
945 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
946 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
947 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
948 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
949 understood.
950
951 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
952 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
953 are sorted by their sequence number.
954
955 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
956
957 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
958
959
960
961 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
962
963 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
964 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
965 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
966 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
967
968 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
969 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
970 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
971
972 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
973 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
974
975
976
977 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
978
979 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
980 MC binning
981
982 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
983 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
984
985 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
986
987 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
988
989 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
990
991 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
992
993 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
994 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
995
996 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
997 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
998 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
999 of the subsystem data
1000
1001 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1002 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1003
1004 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1005 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1006
1007 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
1008
1009 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
1010
1011 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
1012
1013 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
1014
1015 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
1016 argument
1017
1018 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
1019 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
1020 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
1021 (MCameraHV).
1022
1023 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
1024 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
1025
1026 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
1027 menu, eg in the TBrowser
1028
1029 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
1030 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
1031 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1032 This is important mainly for timing studies.
1033
1034 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
1035 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
1036 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
1037 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
1038 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
1039 Introduced new limits:
1040 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
1041 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
1042 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
1043
1044 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
1045 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
1046 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
1047
1048 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
1049 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
1050
1051 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
1052 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
1053 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
1054 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
1055 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
1056 to make the distribution reliable.
1057
1058 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
1059 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
1060 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
1061 saturated and produced wrong limits.
1062
1063 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
1064 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
1065 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
1066 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
1067 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
1068
1069 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
1070 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
1071 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
1072 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
1073 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
1074 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
1075 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
1076 a good precision is needed.
1077
1078 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
1079 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
1080
1081 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
1082 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
1083 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
1084 changes.
1085
1086 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
1087 as calculated by MPedestalY2
1088
1089 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
1090 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
1091 calculated from interleaved events
1092
1093 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1094 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1095 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1096 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1097 task
1098
1099 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1100
1101 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1102 DC currents
1103
1104 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1105 Pedestal Rms
1106
1107 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1108
1109 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1110 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1111 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1112 became pedestal rms dependant
1113
1114 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1115 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1116
1117 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1118 May/April 05
1119
1120 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1121 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1122
1123 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1124
1125 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1126
1127 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1128 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1129 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1130
1131 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1132
1133 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1134 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1135 sqrt(2) to large
1136
1137 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1138 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1139 subtracted
1140
1141 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1142 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1143 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1144
1145 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1146 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1147 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1148
1149 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1150 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1151 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1152
1153 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1154 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1155 it off add
1156 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1157 to your ganymed.rc
1158
1159 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1160 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1161 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1162
1163 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1164
1165
1166
1167 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1168
1169 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1170 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1171
1172 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1173 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1174 before any other tree.
1175
1176 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1177 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1178 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1179 correctly.
1180
1181 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1182
1183 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1184 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1185 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1186 the run stored in the runheader.
1187
1188 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1189 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1190 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1191
1192 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1193 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1194 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1195
1196 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1197 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1198 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1199 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1200
1201 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1202 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1203
1204 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1205 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1206 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1207 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1208 is fixed to 1
1209
1210 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1211 more accurate now
1212
1213 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1214 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1215 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1216
1217 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1218
1219 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1220 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1221 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1222
1223 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1224 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1225
1226 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1227 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1228
1229 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1230 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1231
1232 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1233 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1234 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1235 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1236
1237 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1238 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1239 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1240 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1241 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1242 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1243 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1244 the calibration constants by
1245 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1246 and
1247 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1248 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1249 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1250 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1251 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1252
1253 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1254 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1255 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1256 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1257
1258 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1259 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1260
1261 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1262 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1263 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1264 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1265 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1266 at the corresponding classes
1267
1268 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1269 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1270 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1271 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1272 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1273 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1274 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1275
1276 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
1277 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
1278 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
1279
1280 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
1281 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
1282 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
1283 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
1284 normalization is normally wrong.
1285
1286
1287
1288 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
1289
1290 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
1291 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
1292
1293 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
1294 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
1295
1296 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
1297 because ProcessFile is missleading
1298
1299 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
1300
1301 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
1302 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
1303 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
1304
1305 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
1306 versions newer than V200404070
1307
1308 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
1309 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
1310 (MCameraCentralPixel)
1311
1312 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
1313 (MHVsSize)
1314
1315 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
1316
1317 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
1318 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
1319 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
1320 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
1321 can be canged
1322
1323 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
1324 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
1325 using showlog.
1326
1327 - showplot: improved
1328 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
1329 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
1330 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
1331 the printing command from the command line you can use all
1332 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
1333 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
1334 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
1335 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
1336
1337 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
1338 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
1339 intensity has been updated in some cases)
1340
1341 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
1342 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
1343 been taken with Pin Diode.
1344
1345 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
1346 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
1347
1348 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
1349 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
1350
1351 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
1352 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
1353 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
1354 of the cosmisc
1355
1356 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
1357 from 2.5 to 4.5
1358
1359 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
1360 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
1361 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
1362 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
1363
1364 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
1365 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
1366 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
1367 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
1368 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
1369 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
1370 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
1371 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
1372 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
1373 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
1374 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
1375 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
1376 they are a lot slower)
1377 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
1378 random memory access it might by completely random!
1379
1380 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
1381 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
1382 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
1383
1384 - callisto:
1385 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
1386 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
1387 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
1388 Default: -9.0 +4.5
1389 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
1390
1391 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
1392 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
1393
1394 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
1395 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
1396 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
1397 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
1398 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
1399 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
1400 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
1401 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
1402
1403 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
1404 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
1405
1406 - callisto: for the common extractors
1407 + MExtractFixedWindow
1408 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
1409 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
1410 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1411 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
1412 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
1413
1414 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
1415 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
1416 hilocalib_df6.root
1417
1418 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
1419 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
1420 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
1421
1422 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
1423 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
1424 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
1425 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
1426 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
1427 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
1428 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
1429
1430 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
1431 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
1432 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
1433 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
1434 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
1435 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
1436
1437 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
1438
1439 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
1440 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
1441
1442 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
1443 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
1444 changed only minimally
1445
1446 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
1447 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
1448 MJSpectrum (sponde)
1449
1450 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
1451 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
1452 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
1453 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
1454
1455 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
1456 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
1457
1458
1459
1460 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
1461
1462 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
1463 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
1464 by 0.2 slices)
1465
1466 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
1467 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
1468
1469 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
1470 also done with a intercalibration input file
1471
1472 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
1473
1474 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
1475
1476 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
1477
1478 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
1479
1480 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
1481
1482 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
1483
1484 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
1485
1486 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
1487 which is more than 5 times the variance
1488
1489 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
1490
1491 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
1492 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
1493
1494 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
1495 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
1496
1497 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
1498 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
1499
1500 - update the reference lines for the december data
1501
1502 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
1503 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
1504 pulse position changes much.
1505
1506 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
1507 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
1508 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
1509
1510 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
1511 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
1512 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
1513 runs a lot.
1514
1515 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
1516 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
1517
1518 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
1519 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
1520 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
1521 than with old versions (wrong units))
1522
1523 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
1524 formats are still unsupported by root)
1525
1526 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
1527 for automatic processing
1528
1529
1530
1531 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
1532
1533 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
1534 decided by the Collaboration Board
1535
1536 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
1537
1538 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
1539
1540 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
1541 and applied in callisto.
1542
1543 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
1544
1545 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
1546
1547 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
1548 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
1549
1550 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
1551 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
1552
1553 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
1554 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
1555 energy (Size) events.
1556
1557 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
1558
1559 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
1560 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
1561
1562 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1563 (MHexagonalFT)
1564
1565 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
1566 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
1567
1568 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
1569 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
1570 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
1571
1572 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
1573
1574 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
1575
1576 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
1577 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
1578
1579 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
1580
1581 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
1582 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
1583 the slices by statistics
1584 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
1585 signal extractor without randomization
1586 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
1587 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
1588 randomly fixed)
1589 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
1590 long as nobody really needs it:
1591 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
1592 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
1593
1594 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
1595
1596 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
1597 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
1598 roughly 0.5%
1599
1600 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
1601 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
1602 batch mode possible:
1603 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
1604
1605 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
1606 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
1607
1608 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
1609 camera files.
1610
1611 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
1612
1613 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
1614 accurate now
1615
1616 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
1617 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
1618 * the new implementation is faster and
1619 * needs less storage space
1620
1621 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
1622 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
1623
1624 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
1625 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
1626
1627 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
1628
1629 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
1630
1631
1632
1633 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
1634
1635 - New combined signal and time extractor
1636 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1637
1638 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
1639 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
1640
1641 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
1642
1643 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
1644 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
1645 more): showlog
1646
1647 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
1648 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
1649
1650 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
1651 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
1652 source
1653
1654 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
1655 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
1656
1657 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
1658
1659 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
1660 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
1661
1662 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
1663 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1664
1665 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
1666 times the area ratio as cleaning level
1667 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
1668
1669 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
1670 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
1671
1672 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
1673 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
1674
1675 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
1676 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
1677
1678 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
1679 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
1680 by a resource file: callisto.rc
1681
1682 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
1683 version 4)
1684
1685 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
1686 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
1687
1688 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
1689 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
1690 a resource file: star.rc
1691
1692 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
1693 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
1694
1695 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
1696 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
1697
1698 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
1699 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
1700 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
1701
1702 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
1703 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
1704 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
1705 MHTimeDiffTheta.
1706
1707 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
1708 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
1709 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
1710
1711 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
1712 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
1713 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
1714
1715
1716
1717 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
1718
1719 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
1720 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
1721
1722 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
1723
1724 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
1725
1726 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
1727
1728 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
1729
1730 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
1731 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
1732 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
1733
1734 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
1735
1736 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
1737 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
1738 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
1739
1740 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
1741 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
1742
1743 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
1744
1745 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
1746
1747
1748
1749 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
1750
1751 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
1752 MExtractTimeFastSpline
1753
1754 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
1755 ("pow(a, b)")
1756
1757 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
1758 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
1759
1760 - added support in MF for expressiond like
1761 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
1762
1763 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
1764 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
1765 is implemented through the new virtual function
1766 MParContainer::SetVariables
1767
1768 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
1769 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
1770
1771 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
1772 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
1773
1774 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
1775 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
1776
1777 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
1778 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
1779 and will replace them.
1780
1781 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
1782
1783 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
1784 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
1785 slices in the maximum window
1786
1787 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
1788 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
1789 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
1790 studies.
1791
1792 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
1793 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
1794 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
1795 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
1796
1797 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
1798 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
1799
1800 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
1801 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
1802 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
1803 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
1804 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
1805 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
1806
1807 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
1808 macro pedphotcalc.C
1809
1810 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
1811
1812 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
1813
1814 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
1815 minimizations
1816
1817 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
1818 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
1819
1820 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
1821
1822 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
1823 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
1824 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
1825
1826 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
1827 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
1828
1829 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
1830 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
1831
1832 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
1833
1834 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
1835
1836 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
1837
1838 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
1839
1840 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
1841
1842 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
1843 + MJPedestals
1844 + MJCalibration
1845 + MJExtractSignal
1846 Note: All of them are preliminary!
1847
1848 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
1849
1850 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
1851 the evolution of a sector vs time
1852
1853
1854
1855 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
1856
1857 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
1858 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
1859 camera version 0.7.
1860
1861 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
1862 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
1863
1864 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
1865
1866 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
1867 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
1868 be done soon.
1869
1870 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
1871 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
1872
1873 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
1874 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
1875 of time (readrep.C)
1876
1877 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
1878 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
1879 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
1880
1881 - Changed the name of the event trees:
1882 + Events --> Events
1883 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
1884 + CalEvents --> Calibration
1885
1886 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
1887
1888 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
1889
1890 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
1891 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
1892
1893 - added classes to calculate event rate
1894 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
1895
1896 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
1897
1898 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
1899
1900 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
1901 the new 'Synchonizer'
1902
1903
1904
1905 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
1906
1907 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
1908 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
1909 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
1910
1911 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
1912 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
1913 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
1914
1915 - added a new executable star which implements the
1916 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
1917 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
1918
1919 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
1920 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
1921 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
1922
1923 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
1924 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
1925
1926 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
1927
1928
1929
1930 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
1931
1932 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
1933 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
1934 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
1935 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
1936
1937 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
1938 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
1939
1940 - added pedestal calculation
1941
1942 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
1943 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
1944
1945 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
1946
1947 - added basic routines to apply padding
1948
1949 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
1950 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
1951
1952 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
1953 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
1954
1955 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
1956 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
1957
1958 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
1959 at all)
1960
1961 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
1962 ignore files
1963
1964 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
1965 to simulate the PMT camera
1966
1967 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
1968 programs in the MC chain.
1969
1970 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
1971 parameter in an eventloop.
1972
1973 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
1974 location (Long, Lat, etc)
1975
1976 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
1977
1978 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
1979 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
1980
1981 - added a new status display which can show the present status
1982 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
1983 an example can be found at status.C)
1984
1985 - reorganized directories:
1986 classes describing the image --> mimage
1987 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
1988 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
1989
1990 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
1991
1992 - colors in logging output to screen
1993
1994 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
1995 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
1996 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
1997 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
1998 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
1999
2000 - reading of reflector files
2001
2002 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2003
2004 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2005
2006 - logarithmic scale in camera
2007
2008 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
2009
2010
2011
2012 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
2013
2014 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
2015
2016 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
2017 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
2018 missing a single NN)
2019
2020 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
2021 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
2022 have any neighbour)
2023
2024 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
2025 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
2026 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
2027 please ask Abelardo)
2028
2029 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
2030 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
2031
2032 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
2033
2034 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
2035 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
2036 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
2037 changed.
2038
2039 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
2040 (MHMatrix)
2041
2042 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
2043 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
2044
2045 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
2046 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
2047
2048 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
2049 event display gui.
2050
2051 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
2052
2053 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
2054
2055 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
2056
2057 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
2058 to MHillas
2059
2060 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
2061
2062 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
2063
2064 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
2065
2066 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
2067
2068 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
2069 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
2070 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
2071
2072 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
2073
2074 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
2075 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
2076
2077 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
2078 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
2079 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
2080 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
2081 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
2082
2083 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
2084 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
2085
2086 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
2087 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
2088
2089 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
2090 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
2091
2092 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2093
2094 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2095
2096 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2097 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2098
2099 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2100 (thanks to Raquel)
2101
2102 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2103 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2104
2105 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2106 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2107 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2108
2109
2110
2111 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2112
2113 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2114 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2115 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2116 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2117
2118 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2119 for the collection area calculation
2120
2121 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2122 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2123
2124 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2125 of one container
2126
2127 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2128 ascii file
2129
2130 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2131 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2132 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2133 hillas parameters)
2134
2135 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2136 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2137 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2138
2139 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2140 see MHillasSrc
2141
2142 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2143 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2144 all histograms)
2145
2146 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2147
2148 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2149
2150 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2151
2152 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2153 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2154
2155 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2156 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2157
2158 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2159 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2160
2161 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2162 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2163
2164 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2165
2166 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2167 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2168 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2169
2170 - Added:
2171 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2172 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2173 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2174 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2175 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2176 of Theta and the true energy
2177
2178 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2179 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2180 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2181 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2182 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2183 by unfolding
2184
2185 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2186
2187
2188
2189 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2190
2191 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2192 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2193 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2194
2195 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2196
2197 - Introduced verbosity levels
2198
2199 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2200
2201 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2202 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2203
2204 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2205 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2206
2207 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2208
2209 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2210
2211 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2212 of a parameter container for each event
2213
2214 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2215
2216 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2217
2218 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2219 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2220 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2221
2222 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2223 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2224 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2225
2226
2227
2228 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2229
2230 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2231
2232 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2233 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2234
2235 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2236 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2237 states
2238
2239 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2240 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2241
2242 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2243
2244 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2245 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2246
2247 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2248 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2249
2250 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2251 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2252 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2253
2254 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2255 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2256
2257 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2258 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2259
2260 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2261 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2262
2263
2264
2265 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2266
2267 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2268
2269 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2270
2271 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2272
2273 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2274
2275 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
2276
2277 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
2278
2279 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
2280
2281 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
2282
2283 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
2284 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
2285
2286
2287
2288 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
2289
2290 - Many demo macros added
2291
2292 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
2293
2294 - Hillas Calculation added
2295
2296 - Standard image cleaning available
2297
2298 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
2299 (Remark: of the same structure)
2300
2301 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
2302 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
2303 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
2304
2305
2306
2307 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
2308
2309 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
2310 gui with the command mars.
2311
2312
2313
2314 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
2315
2316 - First official release 0.1
2317
2318 - Changes:
2319
2320 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
2321 while-loop
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