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3== <cvs> ==
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8== Version 2.1 (2007/09/03) ==
9
10 ;Database
11
12 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
13
14 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
15
16 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
17 calibration run
18
19 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
20 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
21
22 ;general
23
24 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
25
26 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
27
28 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
29 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
30 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
31 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
32 using the option --debug-env=3
33
34 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
35 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
36 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
37
38 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
39 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
40 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
41 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
42 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
43 datasets).
44
45 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
46 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
47 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
48
49 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
50 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
51
52 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
53
54 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
55
56 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
57
58 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
59 in the output file
60
61 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
62 special studies)
63
64 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
65 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
66 liniking a lot.
67
68 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
69
70 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
71 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
72 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
73
74 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
75
76 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
77 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
78
79 ;showplot
80
81 * Added support for tiff files
82
83 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
84 name and title)
85
86 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
87
88 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
89 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
90 file name. For details see showplos's help.
91
92 ;merpp
93
94 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
95
96 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
97
98 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
99 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
100 For details see "merpp --help"
101
102 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
103 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
104 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
105 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
106 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
107
108 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
109 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
110
111 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
112 For example:
113 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
114 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
115
116 ;callisto
117
118 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
119 required for succeeding.
120
121 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
122
123 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
124 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
125
126 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
127
128 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
129 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
130 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
131 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
132 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
133
134 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
135 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
136 before the whole accessible range was used.
137
138 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
139 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
140 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
141
142 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
143 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
144
145 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
146 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
147
148 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
149 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
150
151 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
152 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
153
154 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
155 interleaved calibration events
156
157 ;star
158
159 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
160
161 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
162 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
163
164 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
165 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
166 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
167
168 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
169 sum-trigger anymore
170
171 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
172 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
173 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
174 displayed in addition.
175
176 ;ganymed/sponde
177
178 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
179 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
180
181 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
182
183 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
184 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
185 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
186 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
187
188 ;sponde
189
190 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
191
192 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
193 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
194 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
195 it is quantizised in th eorder of a minute. Therefore you can switch
196 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
197 dead-time!)
198
199 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
200 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
201 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
202
203 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
204 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
205
206 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
207 if an output file given
208
209
210
211 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
212
213 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
214 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
215 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
216 teh check.
217
218 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
219 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
220 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
221 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
222 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
223 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
224 second file.
225
226 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
227 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
228 from the context menu)
229
230 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
231 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
232 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
233 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
234 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
235
236 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
237 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
238
239 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
240 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
241
242 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
243 within an Eventloop.
244
245 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
246 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
247 user defined histograms.
248
249 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
250 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
251 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
252 energy)
253
254 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
255 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
256 judge the result.
257
258 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
259 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
260 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
261 and shows lower bias than all other options.
262
263 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
264 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
265
266 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
267 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
268 doesn't contain off-sequences.
269
270 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
271 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
272 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
273 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
274
275 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
276 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
277 lines to your mars.rc:
278 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
279 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
280 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
281 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
282 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
283 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
284 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
285 use the summary file instead.
286
287 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
288 of calling
289 mars filename.root
290 you can now also use
291 mars sequence.txt
292 or
293 mars sequence.txt inputpath
294 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
295 sequence file should be used.
296
297 - mars: The default size has been increased
298
299 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
300 the calculated image parameters
301
302 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
303
304 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
305 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
306 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
307
308 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
309 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
310 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
311 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
312 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
313 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
314 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
315 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
316
317 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
318 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
319 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
320
321 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
322 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
323 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
324 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
325 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
326 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
327 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
328 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
329 as old files read in.
330
331 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
332 somehow. All constants have been updated.
333
334 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
335 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
336 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
337 updated.
338
339 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
340 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
341 good preselector for muons.
342
343 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
344 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
345 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
346 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
347 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
348
349 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
350 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
351 anything.
352
353 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
354 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
355 + CleanLevel0:
356 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
357 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
358 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
359 + TimeLevel1:
360 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
361 + TimeLevel2:
362 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
363 + PostCleanType:
364 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
365 0: No post cleaning
366 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
367 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
368 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
369 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
370 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
371 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
372 respectively
373 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
374 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
375
376 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
377 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
378 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
379 + CleanTime1: 1.75
380 + CleanTime2: 1.75
381 + PostCleanType: 3
382
383 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
384 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
385 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
386 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
387 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
388 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
389
390 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
391 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
392 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
393 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
394 survive your cuts!
395
396 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
397 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
398 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
399 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
400 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
401 accordingly!
402 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
403 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
404 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
405 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
406 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
407 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
408 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
409
410 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
411 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
412 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
413 you have to use Cut0 instead.
414
415 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
416 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
417 the number of off-regions use
418 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
419 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
420 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
421 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
422 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
423 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
424 is not properly set.
425 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
426
427 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
428 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
429 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
430 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
431 "nearest position" trick)
432
433 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
434 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
435 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
436
437 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
438
439 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
440 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
441 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
442 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
443 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
444 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
445 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
446 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
447 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
448 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
449 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
450 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
451
452 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
453 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
454
455 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
456 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
457 positions have disappeared.
458
459 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
460 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
461 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
462 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
463
464 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
465 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
466
467 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
468 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
469 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
470 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
471 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
472 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
473 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
474 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
475 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
476 no off-cut needed.
477 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
478 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
479
480 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
481
482 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
483 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
484
485 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
486 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
487
488 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
489 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
490
491 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
492 give any improvement in simple.
493
494 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
495 not implemented.
496
497 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
498 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
499 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
500 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
501 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
502
503 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
504 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
505 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
506 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
507 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
508 different maximum impact parameters.
509
510 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
511 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
512 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
513 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
514 survive your cuts at all.
515
516 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
517 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
518 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
519 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
520 If you only store the status display from within the display
521 the information is lost.
522
523 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
524 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
525 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
526 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
527 CutQ and Cut0.
528
529 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
530 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
531 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
532 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
533 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
534 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
535 after all cuts.
536
537 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
538 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
539 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
540 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
541 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
542
543 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
544 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
545 publications, they are only for production.
546
547 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
548 is now processed only once
549
550 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
551 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
552 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
553 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
554 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
555 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
556 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
557 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
558 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
559 in most cases.
560
561
562
563 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
564
565 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
566 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
567 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
568 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
569 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
570 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
571
572 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
573 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
574 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
575 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
576 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
577 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
578
579 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
580 properly because the callisto output was currupted
581
582 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
583 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
584 sequence with different setup.
585
586 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
587 code from cvs.
588
589 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
590 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
591 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
592 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
593
594 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
595 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
596 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
597 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
598 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
599 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
600 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
601 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
602 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
603 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
604 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
605 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
606 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
607 avoidable bias.
608
609 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
610 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
611 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
612 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
613 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
614 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
615
616 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
617 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
618 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
619 problems.
620
621 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
622 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
623 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
624 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
625
626 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
627 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
628 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
629 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
630 ("HeightTm") to -1:
631 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
632 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
633
634
635
636
637 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
638
639 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
640 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
641 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
642
643 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
644
645 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
646
647 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
648 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
649 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
650
651 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
652 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
653
654 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
655 callisto_mux.rc
656
657 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
658 been removed
659
660 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
661 replaced by the MC sequence number
662
663 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
664 -mc option can now be omitted
665
666 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
667 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
668
669 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
670 for further simplification
671
672 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
673 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
674 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
675 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
676 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
677 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
678 properly)
679
680 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
681 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
682 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
683 IACT wiki
684 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
685
686 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
687
688 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
689 the pedestal into account
690
691 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
692 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
693 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
694
695 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
696 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
697 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
698 calibration.
699
700 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
701 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
702 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
703 plus an absolute offset.
704
705 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
706 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
707
708 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
709 outlaying offset as unsuitable
710
711 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
712 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
713 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
714 the relative time calibration seems stable.
715
716 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
717 option can now be omitted.
718
719 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
720 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
721 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
722 dataset file.
723
724 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
725 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
726
727 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
728 for wobble mode
729
730 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
731 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
732 has been added, executed before writing the final output
733 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
734 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
735 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
736 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
737
738 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
739 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
740 it will be written to the output file.
741
742
743
744 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
745
746 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
747
748 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
749 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
750
751 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
752 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
753
754 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
755 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
756 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
757
758 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
759 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
760 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
761 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
762
763 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
764 wrong results.
765
766 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
767
768 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
769 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
770
771 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
772 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
773 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
774 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
775 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
776 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
777
778 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
779
780 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
781 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
782 extractions done
783 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
784 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
785 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
786 not a copy-and-pasted one)
787 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
788 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
789 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
790 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
791 and time which is consistent is returned
792 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
793 solution
794 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
795 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
796 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
797 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
798 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
799 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
800 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
801 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
802
803 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
804 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
805 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
806 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
807 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
808 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
809 temperature effects?)
810
811 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
812 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
813 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
814
815 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
816 light condition to be ignored
817
818 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
819 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
820 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
821 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
822 the "SparkCut" directive
823
824 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
825 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
826
827 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
828 in the new phrase parsing
829
830 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
831 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
832 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
833 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
834 the other options)
835 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
836
837 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
838 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
839 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
840
841 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
842 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
843 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
844
845 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
846
847 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
848
849 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
850 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
851 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
852 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
853 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
854 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
855 or the collection area dominate.
856
857
858
859 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
860
861 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
862
863 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
864 websites.
865
866 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
867 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
868
869 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
870 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
871 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
872 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
873
874 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
875 doesn't exist.
876
877 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
878 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
879
880 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
881 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
882 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
883
884 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
885 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
886 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
887 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
888
889 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
890 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
891 write them into a file in the future)
892
893 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
894 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
895 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
896 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
897 the "DrawAll" option)
898 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
899
900
901
902 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
903
904 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
905 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
906 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
907 wobble source/project
908
909 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
910 moon properties
911
912 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
913 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
914 or of one star along one year
915
916
917
918 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
919
920 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
921
922 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
923 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
924 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
925
926 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
927 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
928 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
929 properly into account... fixed.
930
931
932
933 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
934
935 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
936 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
937 code in this case is 255.
938
939 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
940 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
941 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
942 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
943 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
944 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
945 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
946 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
947 no-more used instead)
948
949 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
950 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
951
952 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
953 on in the compiler
954
955 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
956 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
957 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
958
959 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
960 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
961 is with "-1")
962
963 - showplot:
964 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
965 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
966 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
967 + added support for xml
968 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
969 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
970 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
971 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
972 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
973 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
974 desktop-size: --auto-size
975
976 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
977
978 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
979 program.
980
981 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
982 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
983
984 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
985 not be opened.
986
987 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
988 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
989 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
990 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
991 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
992 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
993
994 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
995 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
996 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
997 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
998 by the lo-gain extractor
999
1000 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1001
1002 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1003 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1004 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1005
1006 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1007 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1008 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1009 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1010 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1011 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1012 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1013
1014 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1015 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1016 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1017 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1018
1019 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1020 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1021 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1022 slice has been forbidden)
1023
1024 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1025 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1026 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1027
1028 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1029
1030 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1031 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1032 calibration update has happend.
1033
1034 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1035 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1036 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1037 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1038 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1039 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1040 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1041 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1042 test-database.
1043
1044 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1045 time. It never gave useful information.
1046
1047 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1048 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1049 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1050 LoGainSwitch.
1051
1052 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1053 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1054 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1055 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1056 the LoGainSwitch.
1057
1058 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1059 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1060 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1061 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1062 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1063
1064 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1065 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1066 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1067 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1068
1069 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1070 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1071 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1072 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1073 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1074 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1075 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1076 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1077 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1078 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1079 from the resulting gamma candidates
1080
1081 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1082 with the colz draw-option
1083
1084 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1085
1086 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1087 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1088 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1089 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1090
1091 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1092 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1093 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1094 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1095 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1096
1097 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1098 how to use random forest
1099
1100 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1101 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1102
1103 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1104 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1105 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1106 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1107
1108 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1109 a MC slope of -1.
1110
1111
1112
1113 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1114
1115 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1116 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1117
1118 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1119 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1120 respectively
1121
1122 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1123
1124 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1125
1126 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1127 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1128 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1129 by this arbitrary value.
1130
1131 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1132 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1133 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1134 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1135
1136 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1137 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1138 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1139
1140 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1141
1142 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1143 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1144 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1145 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1146 histograms.
1147 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1148 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1149 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1150
1151 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1152 starguider
1153
1154 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1155 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1156 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1157 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1158 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1159 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1160 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1161 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1162
1163 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1164 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1165 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1166 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1167 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1168
1169 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1170 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1171
1172
1173
1174 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1175
1176 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1177 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1178
1179 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1180 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1181 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1182
1183 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1184 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1185
1186 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1187
1188 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1189
1190 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1191 after 6.3.2006
1192
1193 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1194 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1195 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1196 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1197
1198 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1199 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1200 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1201 Recommended parameters:
1202 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1203 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1204 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1205 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1206
1207 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1208 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1209 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1210 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1211 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1212 time-scale) are missing.
1213
1214 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1215 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1216 people for weak sources.
1217
1218 - macros: plotdb.C:
1219 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1220 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1221 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1222 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1223
1224 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1225 the optimization became a lot faster
1226
1227 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1228 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1229
1230 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1231 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1232 initialization of the starguider calibration
1233
1234 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1235 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1236 resource file using:
1237 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1238 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1239
1240 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1241 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1242 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1243
1244 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1245 trigger (including the software trigger)
1246
1247 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1248 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1249 a defined energy:
1250 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1251
1252 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1253 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1254
1255
1256
1257 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1258
1259 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1260 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1261
1262 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1263 to plot statistics about the data processing
1264
1265 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1266 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1267
1268 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1269
1270 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1271 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1272 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1273 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1274
1275 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1276 different values for different periods
1277
1278 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1279 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1280 effective on-time)
1281
1282 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1283 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1284 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1285 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1286 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1287
1288 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1289
1290 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1291 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1292 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1293 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1294 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1295 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1296
1297 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1298 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1299
1300 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1301
1302 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1303 to 0.06
1304
1305 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1306 resource file.
1307 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1308
1309 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1310 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1311 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1312 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1313 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1314
1315 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1316 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1317
1318 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1319 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1320 on-data.
1321
1322
1323
1324 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1325
1326 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1327 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1328
1329 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1330 are now possible:
1331 showlog callisto 55599
1332 showplot signal 55599
1333 star 55599
1334 callisto 55999
1335 ganymed 2
1336 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1337 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1338 paths ("/magic/*")
1339
1340 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1341 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1342
1343 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1344 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1345
1346 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1347 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1348 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1349 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1350
1351 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1352 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1353 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1354 forest.
1355
1356 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1357 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1358 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1359
1360 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1361 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1362
1363 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1364 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1365
1366 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1367 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1368 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1369 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1370 size ratio.
1371
1372 - RanForest:
1373 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1374 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1375 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1376 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1377 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1378 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1379 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1380 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1381
1382 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1383 the events to be displayed, eg:
1384 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1385 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1386 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1387
1388 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1389 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1390 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1391 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1392 written to the CC tree.
1393
1394 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1395 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1396 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1397 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1398 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1399 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1400
1401 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1402 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1403 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1404 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1405
1406 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1407 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1408 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1409
1410 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1411 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1412
1413 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1414 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1415 --ins=/magic/sequences
1416 and where to search for the image data
1417 --ind=/magic/data/star
1418
1419 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1420 dx/dy from the resource file by
1421 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1422 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1423
1424 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1425 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1426 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1427 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1428 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1429 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1430
1431 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1432 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1433 for on-only analysis'
1434
1435 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1436 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1437
1438 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1439
1440 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1441 they are commonly used.
1442
1443 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1444 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1445
1446
1447
1448 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1449
1450 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1451 how to calculate the threshold
1452
1453 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1454 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1455 and MagicReversi)
1456
1457 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1458
1459 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1460
1461 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1462 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1463
1464 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1465 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1466 automatic processing
1467
1468 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1469 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1470 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1471 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1472 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1473 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1474
1475 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1476 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1477 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1478 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1479 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1480 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1481 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1482 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1483 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
1484 be supressed.
1485
1486 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
1487 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
1488 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
1489 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
1490 algorithm)
1491
1492 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
1493 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
1494 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
1495 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
1496 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
1497 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
1498 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
1499
1500 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
1501 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
1502 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
1503 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
1504 understood.
1505
1506 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
1507 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
1508 are sorted by their sequence number.
1509
1510 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
1511
1512 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
1513
1514
1515
1516 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
1517
1518 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
1519 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
1520 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
1521 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
1522
1523 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
1524 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
1525 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
1526
1527 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
1528 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
1529
1530
1531
1532 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
1533
1534 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
1535 MC binning
1536
1537 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
1538 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
1539
1540 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
1541
1542 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
1543
1544 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
1545
1546 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
1547
1548 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
1549 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
1550
1551 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
1552 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
1553 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
1554 of the subsystem data
1555
1556 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
1557 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
1558
1559 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
1560 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
1561
1562 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
1563
1564 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
1565
1566 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
1567
1568 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
1569
1570 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
1571 argument
1572
1573 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
1574 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
1575 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
1576 (MCameraHV).
1577
1578 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
1579 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
1580
1581 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
1582 menu, eg in the TBrowser
1583
1584 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
1585 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
1586 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1587 This is important mainly for timing studies.
1588
1589 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
1590 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
1591 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
1592 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
1593 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
1594 Introduced new limits:
1595 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
1596 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
1597 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
1598
1599 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
1600 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
1601 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
1602
1603 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
1604 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
1605
1606 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
1607 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
1608 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
1609 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
1610 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
1611 to make the distribution reliable.
1612
1613 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
1614 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
1615 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
1616 saturated and produced wrong limits.
1617
1618 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
1619 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
1620 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
1621 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
1622 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
1623
1624 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
1625 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
1626 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
1627 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
1628 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
1629 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
1630 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
1631 a good precision is needed.
1632
1633 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
1634 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
1635
1636 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
1637 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
1638 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
1639 changes.
1640
1641 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
1642 as calculated by MPedestalY2
1643
1644 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
1645 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
1646 calculated from interleaved events
1647
1648 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
1649 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
1650 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
1651 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
1652 task
1653
1654 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
1655
1656 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
1657 DC currents
1658
1659 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
1660 Pedestal Rms
1661
1662 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
1663
1664 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
1665 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
1666 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
1667 became pedestal rms dependant
1668
1669 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
1670 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
1671
1672 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
1673 May/April 05
1674
1675 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
1676 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
1677
1678 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
1679
1680 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
1681
1682 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
1683 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
1684 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
1685
1686 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
1687
1688 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
1689 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
1690 sqrt(2) to large
1691
1692 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
1693 and a background model determined in the first loop is
1694 subtracted
1695
1696 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
1697 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
1698 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
1699
1700 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
1701 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
1702 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
1703
1704 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
1705 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
1706 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
1707
1708 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
1709 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
1710 it off add
1711 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
1712 to your ganymed.rc
1713
1714 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
1715 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
1716 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
1717
1718 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
1719
1720
1721
1722 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
1723
1724 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
1725 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
1726
1727 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
1728 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
1729 before any other tree.
1730
1731 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
1732 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
1733 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
1734 correctly.
1735
1736 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
1737
1738 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
1739 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
1740 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
1741 the run stored in the runheader.
1742
1743 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
1744 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
1745 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1746
1747 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
1748 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
1749 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
1750
1751 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
1752 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
1753 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
1754 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
1755
1756 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
1757 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
1758
1759 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
1760 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
1761 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
1762 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
1763 is fixed to 1
1764
1765 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
1766 more accurate now
1767
1768 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
1769 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
1770 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
1771
1772 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
1773
1774 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
1775 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
1776 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
1777
1778 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
1779 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
1780
1781 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
1782 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
1783
1784 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
1785 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
1786
1787 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
1788 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
1789 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
1790 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
1791
1792 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
1793 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
1794 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
1795 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
1796 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
1797 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
1798 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
1799 the calibration constants by
1800 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1801 and
1802 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
1803 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
1804 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
1805 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
1806 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
1807
1808 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
1809 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
1810 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
1811 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
1812
1813 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
1814 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
1815
1816 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
1817 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
1818 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
1819 NameHistFS: MHDisp
1820 For details about the requirements of these plots look
1821 at the corresponding classes
1822
1823 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
1824 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
1825 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
1826 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
1827 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
1828 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
1829 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
1830
1831 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
1832 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
1833 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
1834
1835 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
1836 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
1837 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
1838 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
1839 normalization is normally wrong.
1840
1841
1842
1843 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
1844
1845 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
1846 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
1847
1848 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
1849 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
1850
1851 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
1852 because ProcessFile is missleading
1853
1854 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
1855
1856 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
1857 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
1858 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
1859
1860 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
1861 versions newer than V200404070
1862
1863 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
1864 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
1865 (MCameraCentralPixel)
1866
1867 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
1868 (MHVsSize)
1869
1870 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
1871
1872 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
1873 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
1874 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
1875 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
1876 can be canged
1877
1878 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
1879 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
1880 using showlog.
1881
1882 - showplot: improved
1883 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
1884 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
1885 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
1886 the printing command from the command line you can use all
1887 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
1888 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
1889 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
1890 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
1891
1892 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
1893 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
1894 intensity has been updated in some cases)
1895
1896 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
1897 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
1898 been taken with Pin Diode.
1899
1900 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
1901 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
1902
1903 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
1904 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
1905
1906 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
1907 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
1908 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
1909 of the cosmisc
1910
1911 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
1912 from 2.5 to 4.5
1913
1914 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
1915 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
1916 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
1917 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
1918
1919 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
1920 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
1921 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
1922 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
1923 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
1924 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
1925 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
1926 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
1927 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
1928 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
1929 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
1930 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
1931 they are a lot slower)
1932 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
1933 random memory access it might by completely random!
1934
1935 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
1936 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
1937 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
1938
1939 - callisto:
1940 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
1941 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
1942 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
1943 Default: -9.0 +4.5
1944 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
1945
1946 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
1947 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
1948
1949 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
1950 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
1951 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
1952 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
1953 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
1954 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
1955 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
1956 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
1957
1958 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
1959 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
1960
1961 - callisto: for the common extractors
1962 + MExtractFixedWindow
1963 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
1964 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
1965 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
1966 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
1967 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
1968
1969 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
1970 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
1971 hilocalib_df6.root
1972
1973 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
1974 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
1975 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
1976
1977 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
1978 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
1979 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
1980 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
1981 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
1982 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
1983 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
1984
1985 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
1986 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
1987 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
1988 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
1989 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
1990 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
1991
1992 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
1993
1994 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
1995 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
1996
1997 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
1998 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
1999 changed only minimally
2000
2001 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2002 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2003 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2004
2005 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2006 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2007 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2008 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2009
2010 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2011 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2012
2013
2014
2015 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2016
2017 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2018 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2019 by 0.2 slices)
2020
2021 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2022 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2023
2024 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2025 also done with a intercalibration input file
2026
2027 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2028
2029 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2030
2031 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2032
2033 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2034
2035 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2036
2037 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2038
2039 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2040
2041 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2042 which is more than 5 times the variance
2043
2044 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2045
2046 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2047 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2048
2049 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2050 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2051
2052 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2053 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2054
2055 - update the reference lines for the december data
2056
2057 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2058 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2059 pulse position changes much.
2060
2061 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2062 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2063 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2064
2065 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2066 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2067 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2068 runs a lot.
2069
2070 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2071 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2072
2073 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2074 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2075 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2076 than with old versions (wrong units))
2077
2078 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2079 formats are still unsupported by root)
2080
2081 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2082 for automatic processing
2083
2084
2085
2086 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2087
2088 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2089 decided by the Collaboration Board
2090
2091 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2092
2093 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2094
2095 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2096 and applied in callisto.
2097
2098 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2099
2100 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2101
2102 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2103 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2104
2105 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2106 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2107
2108 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2109 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2110 energy (Size) events.
2111
2112 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2113
2114 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2115 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2116
2117 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2118 (MHexagonalFT)
2119
2120 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2121 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2122
2123 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2124 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2125 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2126
2127 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2128
2129 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2130
2131 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2132 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2133
2134 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2135
2136 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2137 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2138 the slices by statistics
2139 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2140 signal extractor without randomization
2141 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2142 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2143 randomly fixed)
2144 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2145 long as nobody really needs it:
2146 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2147 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2148
2149 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2150
2151 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2152 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2153 roughly 0.5%
2154
2155 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2156 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2157 batch mode possible:
2158 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2159
2160 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2161 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2162
2163 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2164 camera files.
2165
2166 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2167
2168 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2169 accurate now
2170
2171 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2172 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2173 * the new implementation is faster and
2174 * needs less storage space
2175
2176 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2177 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2178
2179 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2180 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2181
2182 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2183
2184 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2185
2186
2187
2188 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2189
2190 - New combined signal and time extractor
2191 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2192
2193 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2194 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2195
2196 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2197
2198 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2199 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2200 more): showlog
2201
2202 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2203 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2204
2205 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2206 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2207 source
2208
2209 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2210 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2211
2212 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2213
2214 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2215 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2216
2217 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2218 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2219
2220 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2221 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2222 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2223
2224 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2225 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2226
2227 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2228 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2229
2230 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2231 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2232
2233 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2234 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2235 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2236
2237 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2238 version 4)
2239
2240 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2241 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2242
2243 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2244 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2245 a resource file: star.rc
2246
2247 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2248 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2249
2250 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2251 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2252
2253 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2254 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2255 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2256
2257 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2258 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2259 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2260 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2261
2262 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2263 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2264 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2265
2266 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2267 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2268 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2269
2270
2271
2272 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2273
2274 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2275 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2276
2277 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2278
2279 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2280
2281 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2282
2283 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2284
2285 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2286 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2287 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2288
2289 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2290
2291 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2292 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2293 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2294
2295 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2296 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2297
2298 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2299
2300 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2301
2302
2303
2304 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2305
2306 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2307 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2308
2309 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2310 ("pow(a, b)")
2311
2312 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2313 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2314
2315 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2316 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2317
2318 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2319 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2320 is implemented through the new virtual function
2321 MParContainer::SetVariables
2322
2323 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2324 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2325
2326 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2327 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2328
2329 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2330 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2331
2332 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2333 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2334 and will replace them.
2335
2336 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2337
2338 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2339 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2340 slices in the maximum window
2341
2342 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2343 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2344 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2345 studies.
2346
2347 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2348 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2349 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2350 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2351
2352 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2353 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2354
2355 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2356 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2357 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2358 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2359 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2360 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2361
2362 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2363 macro pedphotcalc.C
2364
2365 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2366
2367 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2368
2369 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2370 minimizations
2371
2372 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2373 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2374
2375 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2376
2377 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2378 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2379 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2380
2381 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2382 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2383
2384 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2385 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2386
2387 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2388
2389 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2390
2391 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2392
2393 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2394
2395 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2396
2397 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2398 + MJPedestals
2399 + MJCalibration
2400 + MJExtractSignal
2401 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2402
2403 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2404
2405 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2406 the evolution of a sector vs time
2407
2408
2409
2410 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2411
2412 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2413 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2414 camera version 0.7.
2415
2416 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2417 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2418
2419 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2420
2421 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2422 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2423 be done soon.
2424
2425 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2426 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2427
2428 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2429 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2430 of time (readrep.C)
2431
2432 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2433 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2434 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2435
2436 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2437 + Events --> Events
2438 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2439 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2440
2441 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2442
2443 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2444
2445 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2446 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2447
2448 - added classes to calculate event rate
2449 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2450
2451 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2452
2453 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2454
2455 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2456 the new 'Synchonizer'
2457
2458
2459
2460 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2461
2462 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2463 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2464 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2465
2466 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2467 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2468 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2469
2470 - added a new executable star which implements the
2471 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2472 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2473
2474 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2475 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2476 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2477
2478 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2479 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2480
2481 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2482
2483
2484
2485 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
2486
2487 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
2488 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
2489 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
2490 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
2491
2492 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
2493 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
2494
2495 - added pedestal calculation
2496
2497 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
2498 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
2499
2500 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
2501
2502 - added basic routines to apply padding
2503
2504 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
2505 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
2506
2507 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
2508 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
2509
2510 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
2511 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
2512
2513 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
2514 at all)
2515
2516 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
2517 ignore files
2518
2519 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
2520 to simulate the PMT camera
2521
2522 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
2523 programs in the MC chain.
2524
2525 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
2526 parameter in an eventloop.
2527
2528 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
2529 location (Long, Lat, etc)
2530
2531 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
2532
2533 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
2534 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
2535
2536 - added a new status display which can show the present status
2537 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
2538 an example can be found at status.C)
2539
2540 - reorganized directories:
2541 classes describing the image --> mimage
2542 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
2543 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
2544
2545 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
2546
2547 - colors in logging output to screen
2548
2549 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
2550 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
2551 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
2552 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
2553 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
2554
2555 - reading of reflector files
2556
2557 - display data from reflector files in the camera
2558
2559 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
2560
2561 - logarithmic scale in camera
2562
2563 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
2564
2565
2566
2567 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
2568
2569 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
2570
2571 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
2572 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
2573 missing a single NN)
2574
2575 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
2576 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
2577 have any neighbour)
2578
2579 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
2580 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
2581 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
2582 please ask Abelardo)
2583
2584 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
2585 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
2586
2587 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
2588
2589 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
2590 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
2591 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
2592 changed.
2593
2594 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
2595 (MHMatrix)
2596
2597 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
2598 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
2599
2600 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
2601 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
2602
2603 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
2604 event display gui.
2605
2606 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
2607
2608 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
2609
2610 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
2611
2612 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
2613 to MHillas
2614
2615 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
2616
2617 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
2618
2619 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
2620
2621 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
2622
2623 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
2624 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
2625 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
2626
2627 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
2628
2629 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
2630 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
2631
2632 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
2633 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
2634 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
2635 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
2636 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
2637
2638 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
2639 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
2640
2641 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
2642 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
2643
2644 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
2645 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
2646
2647 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
2648
2649 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
2650
2651 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
2652 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
2653
2654 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
2655 (thanks to Raquel)
2656
2657 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
2658 estfit.C) using a parametrization
2659
2660 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
2661 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
2662 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
2663
2664
2665
2666 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
2667
2668 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
2669 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
2670 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
2671 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
2672
2673 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
2674 for the collection area calculation
2675
2676 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
2677 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
2678
2679 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
2680 of one container
2681
2682 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
2683 ascii file
2684
2685 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
2686 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
2687 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
2688 hillas parameters)
2689
2690 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
2691 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
2692 see MHillas and MHillasExt
2693
2694 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
2695 see MHillasSrc
2696
2697 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
2698 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
2699 all histograms)
2700
2701 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
2702
2703 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
2704
2705 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
2706
2707 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
2708 an output stream instead of the whole container only
2709
2710 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
2711 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
2712
2713 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
2714 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
2715
2716 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
2717 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
2718
2719 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
2720
2721 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
2722 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
2723 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
2724
2725 - Added:
2726 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
2727 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
2728 they are needed in the flux calculation in
2729 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
2730 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
2731 of Theta and the true energy
2732
2733 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
2734 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
2735 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
2736 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
2737 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
2738 by unfolding
2739
2740 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
2741
2742
2743
2744 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
2745
2746 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
2747 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
2748 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
2749
2750 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
2751
2752 - Introduced verbosity levels
2753
2754 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
2755
2756 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
2757 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
2758
2759 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
2760 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
2761
2762 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
2763
2764 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
2765
2766 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
2767 of a parameter container for each event
2768
2769 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
2770
2771 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
2772
2773 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
2774 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
2775 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
2776
2777 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
2778 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
2779 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
2780
2781
2782
2783 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
2784
2785 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
2786
2787 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
2788 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
2789
2790 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
2791 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
2792 states
2793
2794 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
2795 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
2796
2797 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
2798
2799 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
2800 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
2801
2802 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
2803 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
2804
2805 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
2806 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
2807 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
2808
2809 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
2810 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
2811
2812 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
2813 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
2814
2815 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
2816 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
2817
2818
2819
2820 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
2821
2822 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
2823
2824 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
2825
2826 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
2827
2828 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
2829
2830 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
2831
2832 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
2833
2834 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
2835
2836 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
2837
2838 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
2839 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
2840
2841
2842
2843 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
2844
2845 - Many demo macros added
2846
2847 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
2848
2849 - Hillas Calculation added
2850
2851 - Standard image cleaning available
2852
2853 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
2854 (Remark: of the same structure)
2855
2856 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
2857 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
2858 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
2859
2860
2861
2862 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
2863
2864 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
2865 gui with the command mars.
2866
2867
2868
2869 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
2870
2871 - First official release 0.1
2872
2873 - Changes:
2874
2875 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
2876 while-loop
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