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3== <cvs> ==
4
5 ;general
6
7 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
8
9 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
10
11 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
12 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
13 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
14 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
15 using the option --debug-env=3
16
17 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
18 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
19 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
20
21 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
22 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
23 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
24 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
25 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
26 datasets).
27
28 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
29 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
30 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
31
32 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
33 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
34
35 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
36
37 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
38
39 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
40 in the output file
41
42 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
43 special studies)
44
45 ;merpp
46
47 * Implemented cc file version 2008-20-02/0
48
49 ;callisto
50
51 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
52 required for succeeding.
53
54 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
55
56 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
57 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
58
59 * Both pedestal cams now conatain the number of events processed
60
61 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
62 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
63 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
64 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
65 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
66
67 ;star
68
69 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
70
71 ;ganymed/sponde
72
73 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
74 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
75
76 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
77
78 ;sponde
79
80 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
81
82 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
83 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
84 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
85 it is quantizised in th eorder of a minute. Therefore you can switch
86 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
87 dead-time!)
88
89 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
90 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
91 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
92
93 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
94 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
95
96 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
97 if an output file given
98
99
100 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
101
102 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
103 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
104 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
105 teh check.
106
107 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
108 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
109 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
110 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
111 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
112 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
113 second file.
114
115 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
116 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
117 from the context menu)
118
119 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
120 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
121 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
122 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
123 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
124
125 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
126 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
127
128 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
129 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
130
131 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
132 within an Eventloop.
133
134 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
135 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
136 user defined histograms.
137
138 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
139 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
140 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
141 energy)
142
143 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
144 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
145 judge the result.
146
147 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
148 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
149 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
150 and shows lower bias than all other options.
151
152 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
153 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
154
155 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
156 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
157 doesn't contain off-sequences.
158
159 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
160 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
161 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
162 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
163
164 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
165 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
166 lines to your mars.rc:
167 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
168 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
169 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
170 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
171 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
172 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
173 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
174 use the summary file instead.
175
176 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
177 of calling
178 mars filename.root
179 you can now also use
180 mars sequence.txt
181 or
182 mars sequence.txt inputpath
183 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
184 sequence file should be used.
185
186 - mars: The default size has been increased
187
188 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
189 the calculated image parameters
190
191 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
192
193 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
194 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
195 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
196
197 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
198 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
199 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
200 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
201 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
202 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
203 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
204 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
205
206 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
207 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
208 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
209
210 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
211 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
212 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
213 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
214 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
215 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
216 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
217 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
218 as old files read in.
219
220 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
221 somehow. All constants have been updated.
222
223 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
224 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
225 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
226 updated.
227
228 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
229 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
230 good preselector for muons.
231
232 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
233 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
234 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
235 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
236 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
237
238 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
239 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
240 anything.
241
242 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
243 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
244 + CleanLevel0:
245 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
246 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
247 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
248 + TimeLevel1:
249 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
250 + TimeLevel2:
251 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
252 + PostCleanType:
253 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
254 0: No post cleaning
255 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
256 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
257 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
258 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
259 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
260 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
261 respectively
262 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
263 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
264
265 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
266 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
267 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
268 + CleanTime1: 1.75
269 + CleanTime2: 1.75
270 + PostCleanType: 3
271
272 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
273 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
274 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
275 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
276 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
277 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
278
279 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
280 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
281 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
282 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
283 survive your cuts!
284
285 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
286 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
287 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
288 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
289 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
290 accordingly!
291 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
292 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
293 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
294 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
295 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
296 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
297 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
298
299 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
300 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
301 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
302 you have to use Cut0 instead.
303
304 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
305 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
306 the number of off-regions use
307 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
308 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
309 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
310 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
311 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
312 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
313 is not properly set.
314 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
315
316 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
317 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
318 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
319 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
320 "nearest position" trick)
321
322 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
323 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
324 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
325
326 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
327
328 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
329 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
330 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
331 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
332 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
333 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
334 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
335 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
336 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
337 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
338 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
339 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
340
341 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
342 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
343
344 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
345 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
346 positions have disappeared.
347
348 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
349 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
350 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
351 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
352
353 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
354 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
355
356 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
357 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
358 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
359 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
360 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
361 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
362 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
363 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
364 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
365 no off-cut needed.
366 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
367 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
368
369 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
370
371 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
372 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
373
374 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
375 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
376
377 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
378 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
379
380 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
381 give any improvement in simple.
382
383 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
384 not implemented.
385
386 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
387 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
388 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
389 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
390 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
391
392 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
393 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
394 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
395 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
396 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
397 different maximum impact parameters.
398
399 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
400 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
401 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
402 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
403 survive your cuts at all.
404
405 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
406 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
407 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
408 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
409 If you only store the status display from within the display
410 the information is lost.
411
412 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
413 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
414 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
415 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
416 CutQ and Cut0.
417
418 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
419 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
420 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
421 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
422 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
423 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
424 after all cuts.
425
426 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
427 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
428 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
429 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
430 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
431
432 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
433 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
434 publications, they are only for production.
435
436 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
437 is now processed only once
438
439 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
440 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
441 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
442 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
443 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
444 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
445 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
446 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
447 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
448 in most cases.
449
450
451
452 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
453
454 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
455 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
456 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
457 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
458 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
459 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
460
461 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
462 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
463 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
464 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
465 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
466 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
467
468 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
469 properly because the callisto output was currupted
470
471 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
472 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
473 sequence with different setup.
474
475 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
476 code from cvs.
477
478 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
479 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
480 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
481 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
482
483 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
484 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
485 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
486 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
487 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
488 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
489 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
490 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
491 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
492 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
493 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
494 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
495 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
496 avoidable bias.
497
498 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
499 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
500 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
501 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
502 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
503 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
504
505 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
506 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
507 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
508 problems.
509
510 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
511 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
512 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
513 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
514
515 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
516 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
517 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
518 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
519 ("HeightTm") to -1:
520 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
521 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
522
523
524
525
526 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
527
528 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
529 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
530 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
531
532 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
533
534 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
535
536 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
537 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
538 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
539
540 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
541 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
542
543 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
544 callisto_mux.rc
545
546 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
547 been removed
548
549 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
550 replaced by the MC sequence number
551
552 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
553 -mc option can now be omitted
554
555 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
556 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
557
558 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
559 for further simplification
560
561 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
562 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
563 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
564 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
565 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
566 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
567 properly)
568
569 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
570 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
571 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
572 IACT wiki
573 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
574
575 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
576
577 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
578 the pedestal into account
579
580 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
581 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
582 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
583
584 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
585 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
586 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
587 calibration.
588
589 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
590 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
591 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
592 plus an absolute offset.
593
594 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
595 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
596
597 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
598 outlaying offset as unsuitable
599
600 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
601 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
602 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
603 the relative time calibration seems stable.
604
605 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
606 option can now be omitted.
607
608 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
609 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
610 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
611 dataset file.
612
613 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
614 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
615
616 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
617 for wobble mode
618
619 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
620 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
621 has been added, executed before writing the final output
622 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
623 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
624 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
625 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
626
627 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
628 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
629 it will be written to the output file.
630
631
632
633 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
634
635 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
636
637 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
638 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
639
640 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
641 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
642
643 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
644 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
645 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
646
647 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
648 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
649 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
650 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
651
652 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
653 wrong results.
654
655 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
656
657 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
658 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
659
660 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
661 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
662 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
663 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
664 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
665 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
666
667 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
668
669 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
670 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
671 extractions done
672 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
673 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
674 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
675 not a copy-and-pasted one)
676 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
677 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
678 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
679 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
680 and time which is consistent is returned
681 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
682 solution
683 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
684 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
685 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
686 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
687 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
688 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
689 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
690 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
691
692 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
693 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
694 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
695 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
696 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
697 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
698 temperature effects?)
699
700 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
701 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
702 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
703
704 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
705 light condition to be ignored
706
707 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
708 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
709 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
710 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
711 the "SparkCut" directive
712
713 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
714 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
715
716 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
717 in the new phrase parsing
718
719 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
720 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
721 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
722 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
723 the other options)
724 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
725
726 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
727 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
728 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
729
730 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
731 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
732 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
733
734 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
735
736 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
737
738 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
739 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
740 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
741 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
742 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
743 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
744 or the collection area dominate.
745
746
747
748 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
749
750 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
751
752 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
753 websites.
754
755 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
756 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
757
758 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
759 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
760 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
761 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
762
763 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
764 doesn't exist.
765
766 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
767 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
768
769 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
770 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
771 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
772
773 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
774 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
775 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
776 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
777
778 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
779 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
780 write them into a file in the future)
781
782 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
783 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
784 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
785 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
786 the "DrawAll" option)
787 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
788
789
790
791 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
792
793 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
794 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
795 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
796 wobble source/project
797
798 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
799 moon properties
800
801 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
802 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
803 or of one star along one year
804
805
806
807 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
808
809 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
810
811 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
812 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
813 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
814
815 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
816 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
817 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
818 properly into account... fixed.
819
820
821
822 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
823
824 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
825 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
826 code in this case is 255.
827
828 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
829 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
830 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
831 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
832 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
833 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
834 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
835 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
836 no-more used instead)
837
838 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
839 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
840
841 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
842 on in the compiler
843
844 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
845 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
846 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
847
848 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
849 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
850 is with "-1")
851
852 - showplot:
853 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
854 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
855 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
856 + added support for xml
857 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
858 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
859 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
860 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
861 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
862 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
863 desktop-size: --auto-size
864
865 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
866
867 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
868 program.
869
870 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
871 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
872
873 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
874 not be opened.
875
876 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
877 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
878 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
879 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
880 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
881 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
882
883 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
884 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
885 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
886 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
887 by the lo-gain extractor
888
889 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
890
891 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
892 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
893 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
894
895 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
896 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
897 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
898 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
899 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
900 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
901 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
902
903 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
904 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
905 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
906 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
907
908 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
909 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
910 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
911 slice has been forbidden)
912
913 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
914 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
915 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
916
917 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
918
919 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
920 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
921 calibration update has happend.
922
923 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
924 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
925 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
926 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
927 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
928 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
929 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
930 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
931 test-database.
932
933 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
934 time. It never gave useful information.
935
936 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
937 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
938 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
939 LoGainSwitch.
940
941 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
942 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
943 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
944 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
945 the LoGainSwitch.
946
947 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
948 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
949 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
950 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
951 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
952
953 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
954 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
955 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
956 because it doesn't involve a fit)
957
958 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
959 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
960 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
961 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
962 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
963 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
964 the bahaviour with two resource values:
965 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
966 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
967 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
968 from the resulting gamma candidates
969
970 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
971 with the colz draw-option
972
973 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
974
975 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
976 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
977 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
978 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
979
980 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
981 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
982 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
983 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
984 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
985
986 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
987 how to use random forest
988
989 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
990 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
991
992 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
993 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
994 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
995 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
996
997 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
998 a MC slope of -1.
999
1000
1001
1002 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1003
1004 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1005 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1006
1007 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1008 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1009 respectively
1010
1011 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1012
1013 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1014
1015 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1016 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1017 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1018 by this arbitrary value.
1019
1020 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1021 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1022 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1023 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1024
1025 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1026 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1027 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1028
1029 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1030
1031 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1032 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1033 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1034 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1035 histograms.
1036 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1037 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1038 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1039
1040 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1041 starguider
1042
1043 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1044 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1045 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1046 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1047 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1048 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1049 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1050 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1051
1052 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1053 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1054 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1055 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1056 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1057
1058 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1059 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1060
1061
1062
1063 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1064
1065 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1066 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1067
1068 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1069 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1070 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1071
1072 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1073 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1074
1075 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1076
1077 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1078
1079 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1080 after 6.3.2006
1081
1082 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1083 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1084 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1085 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1086
1087 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1088 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1089 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1090 Recommended parameters:
1091 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1092 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1093 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1094 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1095
1096 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1097 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1098 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1099 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1100 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1101 time-scale) are missing.
1102
1103 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1104 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1105 people for weak sources.
1106
1107 - macros: plotdb.C:
1108 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1109 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1110 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1111 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1112
1113 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1114 the optimization became a lot faster
1115
1116 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1117 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1118
1119 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1120 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1121 initialization of the starguider calibration
1122
1123 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1124 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1125 resource file using:
1126 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1127 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1128
1129 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1130 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1131 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1132
1133 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1134 trigger (including the software trigger)
1135
1136 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1137 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1138 a defined energy:
1139 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1140
1141 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1142 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1143
1144
1145
1146 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1147
1148 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1149 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1150
1151 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1152 to plot statistics about the data processing
1153
1154 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1155 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1156
1157 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1158
1159 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1160 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1161 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1162 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1163
1164 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1165 different values for different periods
1166
1167 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1168 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1169 effective on-time)
1170
1171 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1172 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1173 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1174 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1175 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1176
1177 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1178
1179 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1180 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1181 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1182 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1183 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1184 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1185
1186 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1187 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1188
1189 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1190
1191 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1192 to 0.06
1193
1194 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1195 resource file.
1196 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1197
1198 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1199 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1200 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1201 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1202 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1203
1204 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1205 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1206
1207 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1208 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1209 on-data.
1210
1211
1212
1213 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1214
1215 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1216 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1217
1218 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1219 are now possible:
1220 showlog callisto 55599
1221 showplot signal 55599
1222 star 55599
1223 callisto 55999
1224 ganymed 2
1225 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1226 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1227 paths ("/magic/*")
1228
1229 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1230 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1231
1232 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1233 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1234
1235 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1236 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1237 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1238 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1239
1240 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1241 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1242 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1243 forest.
1244
1245 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1246 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1247 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1248
1249 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1250 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1251
1252 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1253 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1254
1255 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1256 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1257 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1258 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1259 size ratio.
1260
1261 - RanForest:
1262 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1263 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1264 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1265 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1266 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1267 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1268 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1269 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1270
1271 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1272 the events to be displayed, eg:
1273 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1274 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1275 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1276
1277 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1278 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1279 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1280 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1281 written to the CC tree.
1282
1283 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1284 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1285 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1286 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1287 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1288 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1289
1290 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1291 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1292 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1293 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1294
1295 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1296 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1297 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1298
1299 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1300 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1301
1302 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1303 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1304 --ins=/magic/sequences
1305 and where to search for the image data
1306 --ind=/magic/data/star
1307
1308 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1309 dx/dy from the resource file by
1310 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1311 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1312
1313 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1314 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1315 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1316 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1317 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1318 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1319
1320 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1321 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1322 for on-only analysis'
1323
1324 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1325 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1326
1327 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1328
1329 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1330 they are commonly used.
1331
1332 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1333 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1334
1335
1336
1337 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1338
1339 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1340 how to calculate the threshold
1341
1342 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1343 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1344 and MagicReversi)
1345
1346 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1347
1348 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1349
1350 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1351 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1352
1353 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1354 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1355 automatic processing
1356
1357 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1358 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1359 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1360 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1361 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1362 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1363
1364 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1365 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1366 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1367 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1368 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1369 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1370 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1371 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1372 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
1373 be supressed.
1374
1375 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
1376 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
1377 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
1378 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
1379 algorithm)
1380
1381 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
1382 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
1383 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
1384 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
1385 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
1386 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
1387 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
1388
1389 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
1390 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
1391 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
1392 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
1393 understood.
1394
1395 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
1396 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
1397 are sorted by their sequence number.
1398
1399 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
1400
1401 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
1402
1403
1404
1405 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
1406
1407 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
1408 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
1409 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
1410 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
1411
1412 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
1413 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
1414 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
1415
1416 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
1417 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
1418
1419
1420
1421 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
1422
1423 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
1424 MC binning
1425
1426 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
1427 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
1428
1429 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
1430
1431 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
1432
1433 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
1434
1435 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
1436
1437 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
1438 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
1439
1440 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
1441 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
1442 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
1443 of the subsystem data
1444
1445 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1446 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1447
1448 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1449 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1450
1451 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
1452
1453 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
1454
1455 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
1456
1457 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
1458
1459 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
1460 argument
1461
1462 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
1463 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
1464 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
1465 (MCameraHV).
1466
1467 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
1468 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
1469
1470 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
1471 menu, eg in the TBrowser
1472
1473 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
1474 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
1475 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1476 This is important mainly for timing studies.
1477
1478 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
1479 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
1480 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
1481 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
1482 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
1483 Introduced new limits:
1484 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
1485 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
1486 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
1487
1488 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
1489 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
1490 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
1491
1492 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
1493 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
1494
1495 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
1496 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
1497 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
1498 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
1499 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
1500 to make the distribution reliable.
1501
1502 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
1503 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
1504 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
1505 saturated and produced wrong limits.
1506
1507 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
1508 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
1509 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
1510 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
1511 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
1512
1513 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
1514 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
1515 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
1516 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
1517 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
1518 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
1519 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
1520 a good precision is needed.
1521
1522 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
1523 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
1524
1525 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
1526 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
1527 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
1528 changes.
1529
1530 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
1531 as calculated by MPedestalY2
1532
1533 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
1534 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
1535 calculated from interleaved events
1536
1537 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1538 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1539 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1540 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1541 task
1542
1543 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1544
1545 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1546 DC currents
1547
1548 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1549 Pedestal Rms
1550
1551 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1552
1553 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1554 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1555 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1556 became pedestal rms dependant
1557
1558 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1559 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1560
1561 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1562 May/April 05
1563
1564 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1565 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1566
1567 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1568
1569 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1570
1571 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1572 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1573 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1574
1575 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1576
1577 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1578 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1579 sqrt(2) to large
1580
1581 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1582 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1583 subtracted
1584
1585 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1586 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1587 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1588
1589 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1590 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1591 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1592
1593 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1594 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1595 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1596
1597 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1598 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1599 it off add
1600 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1601 to your ganymed.rc
1602
1603 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1604 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1605 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1606
1607 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1608
1609
1610
1611 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1612
1613 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1614 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1615
1616 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1617 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1618 before any other tree.
1619
1620 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1621 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1622 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1623 correctly.
1624
1625 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1626
1627 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1628 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1629 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1630 the run stored in the runheader.
1631
1632 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1633 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1634 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1635
1636 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1637 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1638 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1639
1640 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1641 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1642 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1643 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1644
1645 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1646 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1647
1648 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1649 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1650 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1651 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1652 is fixed to 1
1653
1654 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1655 more accurate now
1656
1657 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1658 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1659 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1660
1661 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1662
1663 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1664 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1665 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1666
1667 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1668 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1669
1670 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1671 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1672
1673 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1674 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1675
1676 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1677 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1678 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1679 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1680
1681 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1682 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1683 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1684 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1685 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1686 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1687 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1688 the calibration constants by
1689 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1690 and
1691 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1692 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1693 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1694 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1695 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1696
1697 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1698 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1699 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1700 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1701
1702 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1703 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1704
1705 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1706 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1707 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1708 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1709 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1710 at the corresponding classes
1711
1712 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1713 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1714 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1715 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1716 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1717 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1718 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1719
1720 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
1721 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
1722 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
1723
1724 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
1725 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
1726 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
1727 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
1728 normalization is normally wrong.
1729
1730
1731
1732 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
1733
1734 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
1735 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
1736
1737 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
1738 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
1739
1740 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
1741 because ProcessFile is missleading
1742
1743 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
1744
1745 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
1746 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
1747 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
1748
1749 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
1750 versions newer than V200404070
1751
1752 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
1753 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
1754 (MCameraCentralPixel)
1755
1756 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
1757 (MHVsSize)
1758
1759 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
1760
1761 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
1762 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
1763 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
1764 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
1765 can be canged
1766
1767 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
1768 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
1769 using showlog.
1770
1771 - showplot: improved
1772 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
1773 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
1774 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
1775 the printing command from the command line you can use all
1776 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
1777 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
1778 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
1779 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
1780
1781 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
1782 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
1783 intensity has been updated in some cases)
1784
1785 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
1786 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
1787 been taken with Pin Diode.
1788
1789 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
1790 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
1791
1792 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
1793 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
1794
1795 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
1796 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
1797 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
1798 of the cosmisc
1799
1800 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
1801 from 2.5 to 4.5
1802
1803 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
1804 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
1805 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
1806 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
1807
1808 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
1809 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
1810 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
1811 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
1812 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
1813 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
1814 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
1815 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
1816 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
1817 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
1818 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
1819 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
1820 they are a lot slower)
1821 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
1822 random memory access it might by completely random!
1823
1824 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
1825 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
1826 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
1827
1828 - callisto:
1829 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
1830 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
1831 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
1832 Default: -9.0 +4.5
1833 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
1834
1835 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
1836 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
1837
1838 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
1839 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
1840 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
1841 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
1842 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
1843 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
1844 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
1845 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
1846
1847 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
1848 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
1849
1850 - callisto: for the common extractors
1851 + MExtractFixedWindow
1852 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
1853 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
1854 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1855 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
1856 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
1857
1858 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
1859 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
1860 hilocalib_df6.root
1861
1862 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
1863 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
1864 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
1865
1866 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
1867 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
1868 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
1869 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
1870 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
1871 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
1872 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
1873
1874 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
1875 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
1876 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
1877 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
1878 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
1879 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
1880
1881 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
1882
1883 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
1884 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
1885
1886 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
1887 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
1888 changed only minimally
1889
1890 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
1891 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
1892 MJSpectrum (sponde)
1893
1894 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
1895 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
1896 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
1897 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
1898
1899 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
1900 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
1901
1902
1903
1904 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
1905
1906 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
1907 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
1908 by 0.2 slices)
1909
1910 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
1911 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
1912
1913 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
1914 also done with a intercalibration input file
1915
1916 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
1917
1918 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
1919
1920 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
1921
1922 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
1923
1924 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
1925
1926 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
1927
1928 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
1929
1930 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
1931 which is more than 5 times the variance
1932
1933 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
1934
1935 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
1936 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
1937
1938 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
1939 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
1940
1941 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
1942 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
1943
1944 - update the reference lines for the december data
1945
1946 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
1947 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
1948 pulse position changes much.
1949
1950 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
1951 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
1952 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
1953
1954 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
1955 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
1956 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
1957 runs a lot.
1958
1959 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
1960 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
1961
1962 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
1963 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
1964 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
1965 than with old versions (wrong units))
1966
1967 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
1968 formats are still unsupported by root)
1969
1970 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
1971 for automatic processing
1972
1973
1974
1975 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
1976
1977 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
1978 decided by the Collaboration Board
1979
1980 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
1981
1982 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
1983
1984 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
1985 and applied in callisto.
1986
1987 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
1988
1989 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
1990
1991 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
1992 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
1993
1994 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
1995 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
1996
1997 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
1998 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
1999 energy (Size) events.
2000
2001 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2002
2003 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2004 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2005
2006 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2007 (MHexagonalFT)
2008
2009 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2010 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2011
2012 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2013 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2014 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2015
2016 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2017
2018 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2019
2020 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2021 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2022
2023 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2024
2025 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2026 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2027 the slices by statistics
2028 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2029 signal extractor without randomization
2030 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2031 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2032 randomly fixed)
2033 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2034 long as nobody really needs it:
2035 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2036 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2037
2038 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2039
2040 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2041 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2042 roughly 0.5%
2043
2044 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2045 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2046 batch mode possible:
2047 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2048
2049 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2050 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2051
2052 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2053 camera files.
2054
2055 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2056
2057 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2058 accurate now
2059
2060 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2061 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2062 * the new implementation is faster and
2063 * needs less storage space
2064
2065 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2066 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2067
2068 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2069 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2070
2071 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2072
2073 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2074
2075
2076
2077 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2078
2079 - New combined signal and time extractor
2080 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2081
2082 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2083 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2084
2085 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2086
2087 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2088 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2089 more): showlog
2090
2091 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2092 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2093
2094 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2095 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2096 source
2097
2098 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2099 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2100
2101 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2102
2103 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2104 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2105
2106 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2107 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2108
2109 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2110 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2111 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2112
2113 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2114 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2115
2116 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2117 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2118
2119 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2120 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2121
2122 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2123 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2124 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2125
2126 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2127 version 4)
2128
2129 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2130 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2131
2132 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2133 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2134 a resource file: star.rc
2135
2136 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2137 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2138
2139 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2140 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2141
2142 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2143 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2144 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2145
2146 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2147 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2148 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2149 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2150
2151 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2152 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2153 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2154
2155 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2156 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2157 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2158
2159
2160
2161 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2162
2163 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2164 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2165
2166 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2167
2168 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2169
2170 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2171
2172 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2173
2174 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2175 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2176 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2177
2178 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2179
2180 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2181 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2182 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2183
2184 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2185 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2186
2187 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2188
2189 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2190
2191
2192
2193 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2194
2195 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2196 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2197
2198 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2199 ("pow(a, b)")
2200
2201 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2202 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2203
2204 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2205 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2206
2207 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2208 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2209 is implemented through the new virtual function
2210 MParContainer::SetVariables
2211
2212 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2213 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2214
2215 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2216 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2217
2218 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2219 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2220
2221 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2222 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2223 and will replace them.
2224
2225 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2226
2227 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2228 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2229 slices in the maximum window
2230
2231 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2232 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2233 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2234 studies.
2235
2236 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2237 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2238 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2239 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2240
2241 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2242 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2243
2244 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2245 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2246 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2247 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2248 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2249 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2250
2251 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2252 macro pedphotcalc.C
2253
2254 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2255
2256 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2257
2258 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2259 minimizations
2260
2261 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2262 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2263
2264 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2265
2266 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2267 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2268 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2269
2270 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2271 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2272
2273 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2274 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2275
2276 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2277
2278 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2279
2280 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2281
2282 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2283
2284 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2285
2286 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2287 + MJPedestals
2288 + MJCalibration
2289 + MJExtractSignal
2290 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2291
2292 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2293
2294 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2295 the evolution of a sector vs time
2296
2297
2298
2299 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2300
2301 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2302 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2303 camera version 0.7.
2304
2305 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2306 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2307
2308 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2309
2310 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2311 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2312 be done soon.
2313
2314 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2315 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2316
2317 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2318 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2319 of time (readrep.C)
2320
2321 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2322 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2323 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2324
2325 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2326 + Events --> Events
2327 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2328 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2329
2330 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2331
2332 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2333
2334 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2335 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2336
2337 - added classes to calculate event rate
2338 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2339
2340 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2341
2342 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2343
2344 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2345 the new 'Synchonizer'
2346
2347
2348
2349 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2350
2351 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2352 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2353 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2354
2355 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2356 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2357 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2358
2359 - added a new executable star which implements the
2360 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2361 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2362
2363 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2364 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2365 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2366
2367 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2368 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2369
2370 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2371
2372
2373
2374 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
2375
2376 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
2377 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
2378 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
2379 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
2380
2381 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
2382 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
2383
2384 - added pedestal calculation
2385
2386 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
2387 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
2388
2389 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
2390
2391 - added basic routines to apply padding
2392
2393 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
2394 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
2395
2396 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
2397 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
2398
2399 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
2400 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
2401
2402 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
2403 at all)
2404
2405 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
2406 ignore files
2407
2408 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
2409 to simulate the PMT camera
2410
2411 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
2412 programs in the MC chain.
2413
2414 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
2415 parameter in an eventloop.
2416
2417 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
2418 location (Long, Lat, etc)
2419
2420 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
2421
2422 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
2423 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
2424
2425 - added a new status display which can show the present status
2426 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
2427 an example can be found at status.C)
2428
2429 - reorganized directories:
2430 classes describing the image --> mimage
2431 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
2432 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
2433
2434 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
2435
2436 - colors in logging output to screen
2437
2438 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
2439 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
2440 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
2441 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
2442 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
2443
2444 - reading of reflector files
2445
2446 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2447
2448 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2449
2450 - logarithmic scale in camera
2451
2452 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
2453
2454
2455
2456 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
2457
2458 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
2459
2460 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
2461 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
2462 missing a single NN)
2463
2464 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
2465 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
2466 have any neighbour)
2467
2468 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
2469 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
2470 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
2471 please ask Abelardo)
2472
2473 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
2474 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
2475
2476 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
2477
2478 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
2479 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
2480 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
2481 changed.
2482
2483 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
2484 (MHMatrix)
2485
2486 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
2487 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
2488
2489 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
2490 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
2491
2492 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
2493 event display gui.
2494
2495 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
2496
2497 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
2498
2499 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
2500
2501 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
2502 to MHillas
2503
2504 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
2505
2506 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
2507
2508 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
2509
2510 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
2511
2512 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
2513 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
2514 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
2515
2516 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
2517
2518 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
2519 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
2520
2521 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
2522 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
2523 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
2524 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
2525 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
2526
2527 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
2528 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
2529
2530 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
2531 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
2532
2533 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
2534 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
2535
2536 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2537
2538 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2539
2540 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2541 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2542
2543 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2544 (thanks to Raquel)
2545
2546 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2547 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2548
2549 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2550 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2551 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2552
2553
2554
2555 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2556
2557 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2558 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2559 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2560 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2561
2562 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2563 for the collection area calculation
2564
2565 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2566 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2567
2568 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2569 of one container
2570
2571 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2572 ascii file
2573
2574 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2575 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2576 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2577 hillas parameters)
2578
2579 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2580 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2581 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2582
2583 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2584 see MHillasSrc
2585
2586 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2587 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2588 all histograms)
2589
2590 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2591
2592 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2593
2594 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2595
2596 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2597 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2598
2599 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2600 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2601
2602 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2603 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2604
2605 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2606 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2607
2608 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2609
2610 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2611 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2612 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2613
2614 - Added:
2615 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2616 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2617 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2618 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2619 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2620 of Theta and the true energy
2621
2622 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2623 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2624 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2625 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2626 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2627 by unfolding
2628
2629 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2630
2631
2632
2633 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2634
2635 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2636 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2637 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2638
2639 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2640
2641 - Introduced verbosity levels
2642
2643 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2644
2645 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2646 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2647
2648 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2649 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2650
2651 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2652
2653 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2654
2655 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2656 of a parameter container for each event
2657
2658 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2659
2660 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2661
2662 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2663 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2664 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2665
2666 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2667 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2668 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2669
2670
2671
2672 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2673
2674 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2675
2676 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2677 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2678
2679 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2680 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2681 states
2682
2683 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2684 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2685
2686 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2687
2688 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2689 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2690
2691 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2692 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2693
2694 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2695 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2696 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2697
2698 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2699 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2700
2701 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2702 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2703
2704 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2705 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2706
2707
2708
2709 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2710
2711 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2712
2713 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2714
2715 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2716
2717 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2718
2719 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
2720
2721 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
2722
2723 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
2724
2725 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
2726
2727 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
2728 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
2729
2730
2731
2732 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
2733
2734 - Many demo macros added
2735
2736 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
2737
2738 - Hillas Calculation added
2739
2740 - Standard image cleaning available
2741
2742 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
2743 (Remark: of the same structure)
2744
2745 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
2746 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
2747 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
2748
2749
2750
2751 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
2752
2753 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
2754 gui with the command mars.
2755
2756
2757
2758 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
2759
2760 - First official release 0.1
2761
2762 - Changes:
2763
2764 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
2765 while-loop
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