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3== <cvs> ==
4
5 ;Database
6
7 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
8
9 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
10 calibration run
11
12 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
13 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
14
15 ;general
16
17 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
18
19 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
20
21 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
22 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
23 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
24 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
25 using the option --debug-env=3
26
27 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
28 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
29 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
30
31 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
32 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
33 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
34 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
35 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
36 datasets).
37
38 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
39 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
40 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
41
42 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
43 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
44
45 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
46
47 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
48
49 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
50
51 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
52 in the output file
53
54 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
55 special studies)
56
57 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
58 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
59 liniking a lot.
60
61 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
62
63 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
64 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
65 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
66
67 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
68
69 ;merpp
70
71 * Implemented cc file version 2008-20-02/0
72
73 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
74 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
75 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
76 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
77 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
78
79 * Added Pyrometer information to output (stored in a new Tree
80 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
81
82 ;callisto
83
84 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
85 required for succeeding.
86
87 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
88
89 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
90 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
91
92 * Both pedestal cams now conatain the number of events processed
93
94 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
95 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
96 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
97 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
98 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
99
100 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
101 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
102 before the whole accessible range was used.
103
104 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
105 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
106 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
107
108 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
109 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
110
111 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
112 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
113
114 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
115 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
116
117 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
118 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
119
120 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
121 interleaved calibration events
122
123 ;star
124
125 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
126
127 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
128 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
129
130 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
131 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
132 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
133
134 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
135 sum-trigger anymore
136
137 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
138 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
139 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
140 displayed in addition.
141
142 ;ganymed/sponde
143
144 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
145 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
146
147 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
148
149 ;sponde
150
151 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
152
153 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
154 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
155 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
156 it is quantizised in th eorder of a minute. Therefore you can switch
157 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
158 dead-time!)
159
160 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
161 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
162 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
163
164 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
165 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
166
167 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
168 if an output file given
169
170
171
172 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
173
174 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
175 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
176 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
177 teh check.
178
179 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
180 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
181 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
182 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
183 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
184 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
185 second file.
186
187 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
188 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
189 from the context menu)
190
191 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
192 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
193 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
194 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
195 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
196
197 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
198 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
199
200 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
201 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
202
203 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
204 within an Eventloop.
205
206 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
207 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
208 user defined histograms.
209
210 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
211 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
212 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
213 energy)
214
215 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
216 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
217 judge the result.
218
219 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
220 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
221 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
222 and shows lower bias than all other options.
223
224 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
225 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
226
227 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
228 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
229 doesn't contain off-sequences.
230
231 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
232 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
233 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
234 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
235
236 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
237 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
238 lines to your mars.rc:
239 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
240 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
241 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
242 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
243 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
244 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
245 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
246 use the summary file instead.
247
248 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
249 of calling
250 mars filename.root
251 you can now also use
252 mars sequence.txt
253 or
254 mars sequence.txt inputpath
255 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
256 sequence file should be used.
257
258 - mars: The default size has been increased
259
260 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
261 the calculated image parameters
262
263 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
264
265 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
266 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
267 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
268
269 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
270 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
271 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
272 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
273 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
274 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
275 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
276 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
277
278 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
279 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
280 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
281
282 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
283 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
284 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
285 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
286 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
287 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
288 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
289 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
290 as old files read in.
291
292 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
293 somehow. All constants have been updated.
294
295 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
296 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
297 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
298 updated.
299
300 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
301 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
302 good preselector for muons.
303
304 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
305 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
306 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
307 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
308 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
309
310 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
311 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
312 anything.
313
314 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
315 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
316 + CleanLevel0:
317 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
318 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
319 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
320 + TimeLevel1:
321 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
322 + TimeLevel2:
323 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
324 + PostCleanType:
325 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
326 0: No post cleaning
327 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
328 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
329 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
330 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
331 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
332 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
333 respectively
334 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
335 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
336
337 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
338 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
339 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
340 + CleanTime1: 1.75
341 + CleanTime2: 1.75
342 + PostCleanType: 3
343
344 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
345 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
346 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
347 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
348 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
349 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
350
351 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
352 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
353 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
354 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
355 survive your cuts!
356
357 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
358 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
359 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
360 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
361 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
362 accordingly!
363 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
364 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
365 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
366 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
367 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
368 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
369 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
370
371 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
372 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
373 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
374 you have to use Cut0 instead.
375
376 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
377 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
378 the number of off-regions use
379 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
380 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
381 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
382 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
383 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
384 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
385 is not properly set.
386 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
387
388 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
389 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
390 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
391 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
392 "nearest position" trick)
393
394 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
395 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
396 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
397
398 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
399
400 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
401 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
402 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
403 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
404 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
405 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
406 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
407 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
408 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
409 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
410 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
411 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
412
413 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
414 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
415
416 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
417 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
418 positions have disappeared.
419
420 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
421 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
422 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
423 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
424
425 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
426 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
427
428 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
429 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
430 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
431 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
432 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
433 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
434 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
435 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
436 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
437 no off-cut needed.
438 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
439 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
440
441 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
442
443 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
444 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
445
446 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
447 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
448
449 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
450 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
451
452 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
453 give any improvement in simple.
454
455 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
456 not implemented.
457
458 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
459 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
460 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
461 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
462 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
463
464 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
465 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
466 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
467 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
468 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
469 different maximum impact parameters.
470
471 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
472 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
473 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
474 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
475 survive your cuts at all.
476
477 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
478 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
479 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
480 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
481 If you only store the status display from within the display
482 the information is lost.
483
484 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
485 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
486 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
487 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
488 CutQ and Cut0.
489
490 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
491 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
492 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
493 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
494 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
495 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
496 after all cuts.
497
498 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
499 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
500 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
501 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
502 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
503
504 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
505 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
506 publications, they are only for production.
507
508 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
509 is now processed only once
510
511 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
512 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
513 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
514 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
515 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
516 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
517 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
518 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
519 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
520 in most cases.
521
522
523
524 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
525
526 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
527 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
528 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
529 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
530 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
531 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
532
533 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
534 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
535 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
536 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
537 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
538 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
539
540 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
541 properly because the callisto output was currupted
542
543 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
544 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
545 sequence with different setup.
546
547 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
548 code from cvs.
549
550 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
551 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
552 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
553 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
554
555 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
556 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
557 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
558 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
559 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
560 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
561 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
562 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
563 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
564 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
565 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
566 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
567 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
568 avoidable bias.
569
570 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
571 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
572 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
573 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
574 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
575 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
576
577 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
578 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
579 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
580 problems.
581
582 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
583 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
584 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
585 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
586
587 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
588 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
589 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
590 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
591 ("HeightTm") to -1:
592 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
593 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
594
595
596
597
598 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
599
600 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
601 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
602 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
603
604 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
605
606 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
607
608 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
609 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
610 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
611
612 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
613 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
614
615 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
616 callisto_mux.rc
617
618 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
619 been removed
620
621 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
622 replaced by the MC sequence number
623
624 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
625 -mc option can now be omitted
626
627 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
628 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
629
630 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
631 for further simplification
632
633 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
634 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
635 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
636 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
637 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
638 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
639 properly)
640
641 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
642 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
643 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
644 IACT wiki
645 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
646
647 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
648
649 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
650 the pedestal into account
651
652 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
653 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
654 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
655
656 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
657 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
658 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
659 calibration.
660
661 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
662 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
663 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
664 plus an absolute offset.
665
666 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
667 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
668
669 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
670 outlaying offset as unsuitable
671
672 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
673 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
674 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
675 the relative time calibration seems stable.
676
677 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
678 option can now be omitted.
679
680 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
681 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
682 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
683 dataset file.
684
685 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
686 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
687
688 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
689 for wobble mode
690
691 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
692 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
693 has been added, executed before writing the final output
694 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
695 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
696 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
697 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
698
699 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
700 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
701 it will be written to the output file.
702
703
704
705 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
706
707 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
708
709 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
710 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
711
712 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
713 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
714
715 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
716 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
717 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
718
719 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
720 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
721 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
722 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
723
724 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
725 wrong results.
726
727 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
728
729 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
730 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
731
732 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
733 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
734 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
735 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
736 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
737 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
738
739 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
740
741 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
742 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
743 extractions done
744 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
745 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
746 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
747 not a copy-and-pasted one)
748 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
749 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
750 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
751 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
752 and time which is consistent is returned
753 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
754 solution
755 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
756 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
757 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
758 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
759 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
760 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
761 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
762 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
763
764 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
765 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
766 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
767 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
768 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
769 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
770 temperature effects?)
771
772 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
773 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
774 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
775
776 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
777 light condition to be ignored
778
779 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
780 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
781 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
782 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
783 the "SparkCut" directive
784
785 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
786 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
787
788 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
789 in the new phrase parsing
790
791 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
792 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
793 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
794 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
795 the other options)
796 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
797
798 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
799 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
800 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
801
802 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
803 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
804 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
805
806 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
807
808 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
809
810 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
811 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
812 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
813 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
814 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
815 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
816 or the collection area dominate.
817
818
819
820 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
821
822 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
823
824 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
825 websites.
826
827 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
828 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
829
830 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
831 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
832 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
833 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
834
835 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
836 doesn't exist.
837
838 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
839 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
840
841 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
842 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
843 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
844
845 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
846 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
847 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
848 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
849
850 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
851 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
852 write them into a file in the future)
853
854 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
855 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
856 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
857 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
858 the "DrawAll" option)
859 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
860
861
862
863 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
864
865 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
866 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
867 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
868 wobble source/project
869
870 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
871 moon properties
872
873 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
874 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
875 or of one star along one year
876
877
878
879 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
880
881 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
882
883 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
884 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
885 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
886
887 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
888 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
889 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
890 properly into account... fixed.
891
892
893
894 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
895
896 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
897 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
898 code in this case is 255.
899
900 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
901 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
902 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
903 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
904 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
905 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
906 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
907 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
908 no-more used instead)
909
910 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
911 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
912
913 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
914 on in the compiler
915
916 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
917 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
918 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
919
920 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
921 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
922 is with "-1")
923
924 - showplot:
925 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
926 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
927 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
928 + added support for xml
929 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
930 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
931 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
932 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
933 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
934 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
935 desktop-size: --auto-size
936
937 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
938
939 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
940 program.
941
942 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
943 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
944
945 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
946 not be opened.
947
948 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
949 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
950 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
951 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
952 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
953 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
954
955 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
956 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
957 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
958 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
959 by the lo-gain extractor
960
961 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
962
963 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
964 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
965 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
966
967 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
968 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
969 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
970 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
971 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
972 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
973 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
974
975 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
976 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
977 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
978 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
979
980 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
981 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
982 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
983 slice has been forbidden)
984
985 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
986 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
987 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
988
989 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
990
991 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
992 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
993 calibration update has happend.
994
995 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
996 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
997 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
998 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
999 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1000 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1001 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1002 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1003 test-database.
1004
1005 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1006 time. It never gave useful information.
1007
1008 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1009 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1010 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1011 LoGainSwitch.
1012
1013 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1014 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1015 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1016 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1017 the LoGainSwitch.
1018
1019 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1020 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1021 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1022 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1023 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1024
1025 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1026 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1027 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1028 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1029
1030 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1031 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1032 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1033 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1034 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1035 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1036 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1037 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1038 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1039 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1040 from the resulting gamma candidates
1041
1042 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1043 with the colz draw-option
1044
1045 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1046
1047 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1048 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1049 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1050 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1051
1052 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1053 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1054 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1055 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1056 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1057
1058 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1059 how to use random forest
1060
1061 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1062 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1063
1064 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1065 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1066 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1067 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1068
1069 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1070 a MC slope of -1.
1071
1072
1073
1074 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1075
1076 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1077 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1078
1079 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1080 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1081 respectively
1082
1083 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1084
1085 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1086
1087 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1088 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1089 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1090 by this arbitrary value.
1091
1092 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1093 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1094 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1095 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1096
1097 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1098 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1099 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1100
1101 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1102
1103 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1104 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1105 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1106 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1107 histograms.
1108 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1109 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1110 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1111
1112 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1113 starguider
1114
1115 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1116 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1117 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1118 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1119 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1120 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1121 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1122 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1123
1124 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1125 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1126 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1127 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1128 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1129
1130 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1131 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1132
1133
1134
1135 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1136
1137 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1138 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1139
1140 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1141 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1142 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1143
1144 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1145 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1146
1147 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1148
1149 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1150
1151 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1152 after 6.3.2006
1153
1154 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1155 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1156 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1157 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1158
1159 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1160 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1161 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1162 Recommended parameters:
1163 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1164 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1165 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1166 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1167
1168 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1169 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1170 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1171 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1172 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1173 time-scale) are missing.
1174
1175 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1176 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1177 people for weak sources.
1178
1179 - macros: plotdb.C:
1180 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1181 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1182 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1183 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1184
1185 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1186 the optimization became a lot faster
1187
1188 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1189 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1190
1191 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1192 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1193 initialization of the starguider calibration
1194
1195 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1196 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1197 resource file using:
1198 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1199 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1200
1201 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1202 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1203 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1204
1205 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1206 trigger (including the software trigger)
1207
1208 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1209 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1210 a defined energy:
1211 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1212
1213 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1214 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1215
1216
1217
1218 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1219
1220 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1221 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1222
1223 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1224 to plot statistics about the data processing
1225
1226 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1227 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1228
1229 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1230
1231 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1232 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1233 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1234 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1235
1236 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1237 different values for different periods
1238
1239 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1240 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1241 effective on-time)
1242
1243 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1244 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1245 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1246 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1247 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1248
1249 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1250
1251 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1252 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1253 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1254 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1255 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1256 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1257
1258 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1259 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1260
1261 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1262
1263 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1264 to 0.06
1265
1266 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1267 resource file.
1268 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1269
1270 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1271 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1272 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1273 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1274 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1275
1276 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1277 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1278
1279 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1280 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1281 on-data.
1282
1283
1284
1285 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1286
1287 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1288 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1289
1290 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1291 are now possible:
1292 showlog callisto 55599
1293 showplot signal 55599
1294 star 55599
1295 callisto 55999
1296 ganymed 2
1297 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1298 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1299 paths ("/magic/*")
1300
1301 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1302 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1303
1304 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1305 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1306
1307 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1308 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1309 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1310 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1311
1312 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1313 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1314 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1315 forest.
1316
1317 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1318 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1319 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1320
1321 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1322 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1323
1324 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1325 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1326
1327 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1328 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1329 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1330 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1331 size ratio.
1332
1333 - RanForest:
1334 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1335 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1336 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1337 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1338 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1339 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1340 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1341 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1342
1343 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1344 the events to be displayed, eg:
1345 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1346 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1347 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1348
1349 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1350 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1351 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1352 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1353 written to the CC tree.
1354
1355 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1356 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1357 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1358 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1359 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1360 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1361
1362 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1363 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1364 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1365 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1366
1367 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1368 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1369 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1370
1371 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1372 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1373
1374 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1375 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1376 --ins=/magic/sequences
1377 and where to search for the image data
1378 --ind=/magic/data/star
1379
1380 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1381 dx/dy from the resource file by
1382 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1383 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1384
1385 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1386 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1387 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1388 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1389 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1390 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1391
1392 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1393 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1394 for on-only analysis'
1395
1396 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1397 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1398
1399 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1400
1401 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1402 they are commonly used.
1403
1404 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1405 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1406
1407
1408
1409 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1410
1411 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1412 how to calculate the threshold
1413
1414 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1415 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1416 and MagicReversi)
1417
1418 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1419
1420 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1421
1422 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1423 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1424
1425 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1426 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1427 automatic processing
1428
1429 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1430 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1431 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1432 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1433 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1434 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1435
1436 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1437 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1438 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1439 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1440 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1441 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1442 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1443 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1444 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
1445 be supressed.
1446
1447 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
1448 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
1449 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
1450 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
1451 algorithm)
1452
1453 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
1454 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
1455 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
1456 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
1457 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
1458 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
1459 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
1460
1461 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
1462 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
1463 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
1464 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
1465 understood.
1466
1467 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
1468 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
1469 are sorted by their sequence number.
1470
1471 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
1472
1473 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
1474
1475
1476
1477 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
1478
1479 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
1480 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
1481 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
1482 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
1483
1484 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
1485 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
1486 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
1487
1488 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
1489 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
1490
1491
1492
1493 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
1494
1495 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
1496 MC binning
1497
1498 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
1499 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
1500
1501 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
1502
1503 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
1504
1505 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
1506
1507 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
1508
1509 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
1510 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
1511
1512 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
1513 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
1514 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
1515 of the subsystem data
1516
1517 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1518 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1519
1520 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1521 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1522
1523 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
1524
1525 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
1526
1527 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
1528
1529 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
1530
1531 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
1532 argument
1533
1534 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
1535 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
1536 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
1537 (MCameraHV).
1538
1539 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
1540 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
1541
1542 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
1543 menu, eg in the TBrowser
1544
1545 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
1546 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
1547 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1548 This is important mainly for timing studies.
1549
1550 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
1551 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
1552 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
1553 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
1554 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
1555 Introduced new limits:
1556 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
1557 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
1558 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
1559
1560 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
1561 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
1562 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
1563
1564 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
1565 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
1566
1567 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
1568 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
1569 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
1570 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
1571 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
1572 to make the distribution reliable.
1573
1574 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
1575 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
1576 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
1577 saturated and produced wrong limits.
1578
1579 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
1580 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
1581 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
1582 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
1583 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
1584
1585 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
1586 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
1587 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
1588 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
1589 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
1590 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
1591 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
1592 a good precision is needed.
1593
1594 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
1595 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
1596
1597 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
1598 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
1599 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
1600 changes.
1601
1602 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
1603 as calculated by MPedestalY2
1604
1605 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
1606 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
1607 calculated from interleaved events
1608
1609 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1610 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1611 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1612 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1613 task
1614
1615 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1616
1617 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1618 DC currents
1619
1620 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1621 Pedestal Rms
1622
1623 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1624
1625 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1626 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1627 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1628 became pedestal rms dependant
1629
1630 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1631 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1632
1633 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1634 May/April 05
1635
1636 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1637 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1638
1639 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1640
1641 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1642
1643 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1644 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1645 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1646
1647 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1648
1649 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1650 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1651 sqrt(2) to large
1652
1653 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1654 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1655 subtracted
1656
1657 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1658 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1659 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1660
1661 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1662 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1663 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1664
1665 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1666 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1667 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1668
1669 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1670 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1671 it off add
1672 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1673 to your ganymed.rc
1674
1675 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1676 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1677 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1678
1679 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1680
1681
1682
1683 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1684
1685 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1686 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1687
1688 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1689 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1690 before any other tree.
1691
1692 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1693 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1694 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1695 correctly.
1696
1697 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1698
1699 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1700 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1701 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1702 the run stored in the runheader.
1703
1704 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1705 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1706 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1707
1708 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1709 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1710 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1711
1712 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1713 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1714 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1715 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1716
1717 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1718 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1719
1720 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1721 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1722 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1723 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1724 is fixed to 1
1725
1726 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1727 more accurate now
1728
1729 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1730 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1731 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1732
1733 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1734
1735 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1736 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1737 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1738
1739 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1740 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1741
1742 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1743 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1744
1745 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1746 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1747
1748 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1749 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1750 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1751 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1752
1753 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1754 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1755 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1756 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1757 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1758 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1759 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1760 the calibration constants by
1761 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1762 and
1763 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1764 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1765 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1766 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1767 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1768
1769 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1770 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1771 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1772 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1773
1774 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1775 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1776
1777 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1778 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1779 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1780 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1781 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1782 at the corresponding classes
1783
1784 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1785 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1786 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1787 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1788 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1789 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1790 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1791
1792 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
1793 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
1794 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
1795
1796 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
1797 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
1798 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
1799 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
1800 normalization is normally wrong.
1801
1802
1803
1804 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
1805
1806 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
1807 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
1808
1809 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
1810 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
1811
1812 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
1813 because ProcessFile is missleading
1814
1815 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
1816
1817 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
1818 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
1819 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
1820
1821 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
1822 versions newer than V200404070
1823
1824 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
1825 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
1826 (MCameraCentralPixel)
1827
1828 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
1829 (MHVsSize)
1830
1831 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
1832
1833 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
1834 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
1835 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
1836 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
1837 can be canged
1838
1839 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
1840 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
1841 using showlog.
1842
1843 - showplot: improved
1844 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
1845 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
1846 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
1847 the printing command from the command line you can use all
1848 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
1849 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
1850 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
1851 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
1852
1853 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
1854 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
1855 intensity has been updated in some cases)
1856
1857 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
1858 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
1859 been taken with Pin Diode.
1860
1861 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
1862 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
1863
1864 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
1865 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
1866
1867 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
1868 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
1869 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
1870 of the cosmisc
1871
1872 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
1873 from 2.5 to 4.5
1874
1875 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
1876 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
1877 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
1878 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
1879
1880 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
1881 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
1882 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
1883 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
1884 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
1885 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
1886 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
1887 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
1888 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
1889 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
1890 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
1891 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
1892 they are a lot slower)
1893 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
1894 random memory access it might by completely random!
1895
1896 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
1897 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
1898 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
1899
1900 - callisto:
1901 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
1902 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
1903 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
1904 Default: -9.0 +4.5
1905 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
1906
1907 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
1908 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
1909
1910 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
1911 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
1912 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
1913 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
1914 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
1915 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
1916 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
1917 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
1918
1919 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
1920 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
1921
1922 - callisto: for the common extractors
1923 + MExtractFixedWindow
1924 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
1925 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
1926 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1927 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
1928 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
1929
1930 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
1931 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
1932 hilocalib_df6.root
1933
1934 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
1935 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
1936 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
1937
1938 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
1939 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
1940 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
1941 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
1942 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
1943 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
1944 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
1945
1946 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
1947 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
1948 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
1949 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
1950 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
1951 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
1952
1953 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
1954
1955 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
1956 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
1957
1958 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
1959 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
1960 changed only minimally
1961
1962 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
1963 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
1964 MJSpectrum (sponde)
1965
1966 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
1967 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
1968 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
1969 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
1970
1971 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
1972 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
1973
1974
1975
1976 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
1977
1978 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
1979 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
1980 by 0.2 slices)
1981
1982 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
1983 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
1984
1985 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
1986 also done with a intercalibration input file
1987
1988 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
1989
1990 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
1991
1992 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
1993
1994 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
1995
1996 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
1997
1998 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
1999
2000 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2001
2002 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2003 which is more than 5 times the variance
2004
2005 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2006
2007 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2008 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2009
2010 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2011 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2012
2013 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2014 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2015
2016 - update the reference lines for the december data
2017
2018 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2019 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2020 pulse position changes much.
2021
2022 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2023 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2024 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2025
2026 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2027 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2028 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2029 runs a lot.
2030
2031 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2032 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2033
2034 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2035 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2036 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2037 than with old versions (wrong units))
2038
2039 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2040 formats are still unsupported by root)
2041
2042 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2043 for automatic processing
2044
2045
2046
2047 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2048
2049 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2050 decided by the Collaboration Board
2051
2052 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2053
2054 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2055
2056 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2057 and applied in callisto.
2058
2059 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2060
2061 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2062
2063 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2064 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2065
2066 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2067 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2068
2069 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2070 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2071 energy (Size) events.
2072
2073 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2074
2075 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2076 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2077
2078 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2079 (MHexagonalFT)
2080
2081 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2082 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2083
2084 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2085 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2086 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2087
2088 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2089
2090 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2091
2092 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2093 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2094
2095 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2096
2097 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2098 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2099 the slices by statistics
2100 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2101 signal extractor without randomization
2102 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2103 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2104 randomly fixed)
2105 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2106 long as nobody really needs it:
2107 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2108 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2109
2110 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2111
2112 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2113 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2114 roughly 0.5%
2115
2116 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2117 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2118 batch mode possible:
2119 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2120
2121 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2122 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2123
2124 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2125 camera files.
2126
2127 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2128
2129 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2130 accurate now
2131
2132 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2133 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2134 * the new implementation is faster and
2135 * needs less storage space
2136
2137 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2138 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2139
2140 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2141 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2142
2143 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2144
2145 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2146
2147
2148
2149 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2150
2151 - New combined signal and time extractor
2152 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2153
2154 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2155 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2156
2157 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2158
2159 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2160 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2161 more): showlog
2162
2163 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2164 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2165
2166 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2167 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2168 source
2169
2170 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2171 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2172
2173 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2174
2175 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2176 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2177
2178 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2179 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2180
2181 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2182 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2183 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2184
2185 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2186 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2187
2188 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2189 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2190
2191 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2192 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2193
2194 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2195 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2196 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2197
2198 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2199 version 4)
2200
2201 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2202 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2203
2204 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2205 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2206 a resource file: star.rc
2207
2208 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2209 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2210
2211 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2212 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2213
2214 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2215 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2216 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2217
2218 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2219 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2220 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2221 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2222
2223 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2224 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2225 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2226
2227 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2228 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2229 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2230
2231
2232
2233 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2234
2235 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2236 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2237
2238 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2239
2240 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2241
2242 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2243
2244 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2245
2246 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2247 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2248 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2249
2250 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2251
2252 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2253 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2254 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2255
2256 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2257 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2258
2259 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2260
2261 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2262
2263
2264
2265 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2266
2267 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2268 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2269
2270 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2271 ("pow(a, b)")
2272
2273 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2274 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2275
2276 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2277 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2278
2279 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2280 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2281 is implemented through the new virtual function
2282 MParContainer::SetVariables
2283
2284 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2285 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2286
2287 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2288 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2289
2290 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2291 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2292
2293 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2294 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2295 and will replace them.
2296
2297 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2298
2299 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2300 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2301 slices in the maximum window
2302
2303 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2304 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2305 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2306 studies.
2307
2308 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2309 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2310 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2311 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2312
2313 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2314 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2315
2316 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2317 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2318 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2319 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2320 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2321 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2322
2323 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2324 macro pedphotcalc.C
2325
2326 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2327
2328 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2329
2330 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2331 minimizations
2332
2333 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2334 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2335
2336 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2337
2338 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2339 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2340 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2341
2342 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2343 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2344
2345 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2346 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2347
2348 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2349
2350 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2351
2352 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2353
2354 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2355
2356 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2357
2358 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2359 + MJPedestals
2360 + MJCalibration
2361 + MJExtractSignal
2362 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2363
2364 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2365
2366 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2367 the evolution of a sector vs time
2368
2369
2370
2371 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2372
2373 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2374 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2375 camera version 0.7.
2376
2377 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2378 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2379
2380 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2381
2382 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2383 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2384 be done soon.
2385
2386 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2387 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2388
2389 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2390 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2391 of time (readrep.C)
2392
2393 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2394 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2395 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2396
2397 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2398 + Events --> Events
2399 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2400 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2401
2402 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2403
2404 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2405
2406 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2407 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2408
2409 - added classes to calculate event rate
2410 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2411
2412 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2413
2414 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2415
2416 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2417 the new 'Synchonizer'
2418
2419
2420
2421 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2422
2423 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2424 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2425 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2426
2427 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2428 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2429 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2430
2431 - added a new executable star which implements the
2432 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2433 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2434
2435 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2436 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2437 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2438
2439 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2440 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2441
2442 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2443
2444
2445
2446 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
2447
2448 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
2449 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
2450 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
2451 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
2452
2453 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
2454 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
2455
2456 - added pedestal calculation
2457
2458 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
2459 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
2460
2461 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
2462
2463 - added basic routines to apply padding
2464
2465 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
2466 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
2467
2468 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
2469 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
2470
2471 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
2472 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
2473
2474 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
2475 at all)
2476
2477 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
2478 ignore files
2479
2480 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
2481 to simulate the PMT camera
2482
2483 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
2484 programs in the MC chain.
2485
2486 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
2487 parameter in an eventloop.
2488
2489 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
2490 location (Long, Lat, etc)
2491
2492 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
2493
2494 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
2495 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
2496
2497 - added a new status display which can show the present status
2498 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
2499 an example can be found at status.C)
2500
2501 - reorganized directories:
2502 classes describing the image --> mimage
2503 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
2504 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
2505
2506 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
2507
2508 - colors in logging output to screen
2509
2510 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
2511 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
2512 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
2513 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
2514 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
2515
2516 - reading of reflector files
2517
2518 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2519
2520 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2521
2522 - logarithmic scale in camera
2523
2524 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
2525
2526
2527
2528 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
2529
2530 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
2531
2532 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
2533 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
2534 missing a single NN)
2535
2536 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
2537 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
2538 have any neighbour)
2539
2540 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
2541 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
2542 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
2543 please ask Abelardo)
2544
2545 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
2546 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
2547
2548 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
2549
2550 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
2551 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
2552 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
2553 changed.
2554
2555 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
2556 (MHMatrix)
2557
2558 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
2559 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
2560
2561 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
2562 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
2563
2564 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
2565 event display gui.
2566
2567 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
2568
2569 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
2570
2571 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
2572
2573 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
2574 to MHillas
2575
2576 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
2577
2578 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
2579
2580 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
2581
2582 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
2583
2584 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
2585 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
2586 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
2587
2588 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
2589
2590 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
2591 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
2592
2593 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
2594 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
2595 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
2596 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
2597 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
2598
2599 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
2600 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
2601
2602 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
2603 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
2604
2605 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
2606 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
2607
2608 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2609
2610 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2611
2612 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2613 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2614
2615 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2616 (thanks to Raquel)
2617
2618 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2619 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2620
2621 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2622 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2623 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2624
2625
2626
2627 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2628
2629 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2630 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2631 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2632 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2633
2634 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2635 for the collection area calculation
2636
2637 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2638 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2639
2640 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2641 of one container
2642
2643 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2644 ascii file
2645
2646 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2647 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2648 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2649 hillas parameters)
2650
2651 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2652 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2653 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2654
2655 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2656 see MHillasSrc
2657
2658 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2659 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2660 all histograms)
2661
2662 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2663
2664 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2665
2666 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2667
2668 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2669 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2670
2671 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2672 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2673
2674 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2675 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2676
2677 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2678 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2679
2680 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2681
2682 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2683 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2684 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2685
2686 - Added:
2687 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2688 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2689 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2690 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2691 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2692 of Theta and the true energy
2693
2694 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2695 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2696 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2697 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2698 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2699 by unfolding
2700
2701 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2702
2703
2704
2705 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2706
2707 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2708 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2709 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2710
2711 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2712
2713 - Introduced verbosity levels
2714
2715 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2716
2717 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2718 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2719
2720 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2721 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2722
2723 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2724
2725 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2726
2727 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2728 of a parameter container for each event
2729
2730 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2731
2732 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2733
2734 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2735 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2736 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2737
2738 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2739 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2740 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2741
2742
2743
2744 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2745
2746 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2747
2748 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2749 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2750
2751 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2752 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2753 states
2754
2755 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2756 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2757
2758 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2759
2760 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2761 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2762
2763 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2764 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2765
2766 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2767 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2768 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2769
2770 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2771 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2772
2773 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2774 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2775
2776 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2777 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2778
2779
2780
2781 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2782
2783 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2784
2785 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2786
2787 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2788
2789 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2790
2791 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
2792
2793 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
2794
2795 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
2796
2797 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
2798
2799 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
2800 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
2801
2802
2803
2804 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
2805
2806 - Many demo macros added
2807
2808 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
2809
2810 - Hillas Calculation added
2811
2812 - Standard image cleaning available
2813
2814 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
2815 (Remark: of the same structure)
2816
2817 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
2818 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
2819 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
2820
2821
2822
2823 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
2824
2825 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
2826 gui with the command mars.
2827
2828
2829
2830 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
2831
2832 - First official release 0.1
2833
2834 - Changes:
2835
2836 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
2837 while-loop
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