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2
3== Version 2.4 (2009/12/23) ==
4
5 ;general:
6
7 * Added a new palette "temp" to MH::SetPalette which should resample
8 a temperature
9
10 * Added consistency check for two consecutive runs
11
12 * Since ~1006246 (preliminary) the L1 signal (which is L1 after L2)
13 has been disconnected and the L1 (L1TPU) has directly been connected
14 to another bit in the trigger pattern. This has been fixed by an
15 update of the decoding. Both bits are now or'ed together.
16
17 * Added a new camera layout MGeomCamFact which is the "four rectangular
18 pixels ordered in a hexagonal geometry" layout
19
20 * All programs now store the command line as TNamed "CommandLine"
21
22 * the environment variable OSTYPE should now be obsolete. Instead
23 the output of "uname -s" converted to lower cases is used
24
25 * The Makefiles should now detect the OSTYPE automatically using
26 uname. This should make the setting of OSTYPE obsolete
27
28 ;showplot:
29
30 * If a file without a MStatusArray is opened all object (not just
31 canvases) found in the file are drawn. Note that this may result
32 in empty tabs.
33
34 ;ceres:
35
36 * The night sky noise is now scaled with the sensitive area and
37 is given in units per square centimeter
38
39 * The night-sky noise now also takes the cones transmission
40 into account
41
42 * The night sky noise can now be calculated from a night-sky
43 spctrum
44
45 * A transmission curve for the cones can now be given
46
47 * Added the possibility to add a cut after the image parameter
48 calculation (''Cut'')
49
50 * updated the PDE of the GAPDs with a more reliable curve from
51 the meeting page (linear extrapolate below 350nm)
52
53 * The impact distribution in the event distrbutions is now
54 perpendicular to Alt/Az and the histogram is displayed in 1D
55
56 * The GAPD PDE has been updated
57
58 * PDEs and mirror reflectivities have been linearily extrapolated
59 to match the wavelegth range between 290nm and 900nm
60
61 * There is no default pulse shape anymoe it must be given in
62 the resource file
63
64 * Fixed a bug which caused the aerosol coefficient to be incorrectly
65 initialized. The effect might be random but seems to be small.
66
67 * Now accepts sequence files as input
68
69 * creation of pedestal and calibration files is now steered by
70 --mode (see ceres help)
71
72 * Instead of initializing the whole G-APD chip (all cells) before
73 each event (which is rather time consuming) a time evolution before
74 each event is now simulated which is enough to recovere every cell
75 to 99.999% of its response taking the background rate into account.
76 This is in total about a factor of ten faster and should not be
77 less accurate because under normal conditions the recovering cells
78 and the newly hitten cells will hardly be identical (due to
79 statistical reasons)
80
81 * improved the trigger algorithm which is now faster and allows easily
82 for multiplicity triggers
83
84 * The PDC flag in the file name is now correctly written
85
86 * A "PreCut" has been added which can be used after reading the events
87 to select them even before any calculation is done.
88
89 ;merpp:
90
91 * The new drive reports which contain also the status of the starguider
92 are now implemented, but the starting date (17/05/09) is preliminary.
93
94 ;callisto:
95
96 * Fixed a bug which prevented MAGIC Monte Carlo file from being
97 calibrated (ceres files worked)
98
99 * updated (Muon) calibration constants of period 62, 63, 72-75
100
101 ;star:
102
103 * allow to run thru even if discriminator threshold are missing
104 (they are not used for analysis so far anyway)
105
106 ;ganymed:
107
108 * added new starguider calibration for sequences since 1000534
109
110 ;database:
111
112 * added possiblity to query/plot data from certain source (with
113 regular expressions) in plotdb.php
114
115 * new feature in showplots*.php: on mouse-over additional information
116 on the sequence is displayed
117
118 * tables on database website have also 'Last' link now
119
120 * new version of builddatasets.php with more comfortable sequence
121 selection
122
123 * new features in builddatasets.php:
124 - user management
125 - 'Get Data Set File' button
126 - 'Display Selected Sequences' button
127 - 'Display Not Selected Sequences' button
128 - 'Select all' buttons
129
130 * builddatasets.php: added possibility to update data sets in the
131 database
132
133 * added limit for cloudiness for sequences in the tab 'Limits'
134
135 ;automation:
136
137 * jobmanager can be used more flexible now: via environnent variable
138 $AUTOMATIONSETUP more than one jobmanager per user can be started
139 using the same MARS version
140 Usage: export AUTOMATIONSETUP=mysetup ; /fullpath/jobmanager
141 and provide a file Mars/datacenter/scripts/setup.mysetup
142
143
144
145== Version 2.3 (2009/03/07) ==
146
147 ;SUGGESTION
148
149 * There is no need to re-run any data because no change took place which
150 could have an effect on the output. However, if you want a
151 meaningful SrcPos plot for your MCs in sponde you must re-process
152 star for your MCs first.
153
154 ;REMARK
155
156 * File produced with this release containing a camera geometry (which
157 are basically all files were produced as default) will not be readable
158 by older releases.
159
160 ;general
161
162 * fixed a few small bugs which could cause the display to crash in ganymed
163 and sponde
164
165 * in sequence file the date can now be omittet. In this case the
166 leading date with the underscore is missing in the expected filename
167
168 * the geometry class now also supports other geometries than just hexagons
169
170 ;automation
171
172 * added magnetic field Azimuth direction (ARRANG), currently
173 at ~ -7deg at La Palma
174
175 ;database
176
177 * plotdb.php: added default (sequences) for startup, added possibility
178 to set size of plot
179
180 * added a new table ''RunDataCheck'' which containes the rates after
181 image cleaning for every run which succeeded star. It can be
182 plotted using ''plotrundb.C''
183
184 ;merpp
185
186 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200812140
187
188 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200809030
189
190 ;mars
191
192 * The display now also displays the trigger pattern
193
194 * The display can now display ceres reflector (_R_) files
195
196 ;ceres
197
198 * added a uniformly distributed one-bin time jitter for the start of the
199 digitization. Otherwise the first photon would be digitized always with
200 the same alignment to the bins
201
202 * Added a plot showing the production height of the photons
203
204 * Moved the particle id from the event header to the run header
205
206 * Added the possibility to simulate a psf on the camera plane (MSimPSF)
207
208 * Added a new plot ''SignalMax'' showing the maximum entry into the pixels
209
210 * Added many new options to control the tasks. For deatils see ''ceres.rc''
211
212 * Removed obsolete plots in pedestal and calibration mode
213
214 * Removed the non-NightSky photons from the plots where they are just
215 disturbing
216
217 * Added a trigger pattern to the output (Ped, Cal or Lvl1)
218
219 * The daq event number now represents the readout number
220
221 * The camera ''electronics'' can now be ''switched off''
222
223 * A new tab ''Info'' now display basic things like the reflector
224 layout
225
226 * Improved reading speed for corsika files
227
228 * Improved memory handling (if a large ampount of memory was needed
229 for a single event all further events were stored in the same
230 memory and it was never freed, so the program took this memory
231 until the end)
232
233 * Converted the code from MMCS' reflector program to MSimAtmosphere
234 (instead of the tables build in for MAGIC Winter and Summer
235 atmosphere we use the values written by Corsika fitted to the
236 tabulated atmosphere given as input)
237
238 * For caluclating the displayed image parameters in ceres a basic
239 image cleaning removing isolated pixels is now done.
240
241 * The magnetic field direction (ARRANG) is now taken into account
242
243 * Added plot for the energy threshold after trigger ''Threshold''
244
245 * Added plot for the effective collection area after trigger ''TrigArea''
246
247 ;star
248
249 * Now outputs MSrcPosCam for Monte Carlos in the Events tree.
250
251 * The definition of fConcCore has slightly changed. The numbers
252 might decrease a little bit (the effect should be rather small)
253
254 ;ganymed
255
256 * added pointing model 328198
257
258 ;sponde
259
260 * The SrcPos plot for your MCs was so far meaningless because it just
261 displayes the MSrcPosCam data from the input star-files. Unfortunately,
262 this containes was never written to the star-files yet.
263
264 * A new Tab 'OnTime' is available which is an effective on-time
265 fit as in star but for all data. This is mainly for manual cross-check
266 of the effective on-time
267
268 * In some circumstances it might be necessary to re-calculate the
269 eff. on-time from the fit in the new tab, e.g. when a zenith distance
270 cut was made in ganymed. This can now be forced by ''--force-ontimefit''
271
272 * now reads the ''ganymed.rc'' from the ''ganymed.root'' and writes
273 it to its own output file (for convinience)
274
275
276
277== Version 2.2 (2009/01/30) ==
278
279 ;SUGGESTION
280
281 * This release doesn't contain a major change which is expected to
282 change your results. Nevertheless there are small changes to
283 the calibration which can effect at least the first few hundred
284 events in any (mainly MUX and even more SUM) sequence a little bit.
285 So it is recommended although not necessary to reset your sequences
286 in the database before further processing.
287
288 ;NEW
289
290 * A first implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation program
291 (ceres - Camera Electronics and REflector Simulation) has been
292 implemented. It can simulate a full telescope already including
293 a complete reflector simulation and a flexible trigger and readout
294 simulation. Currently, no perfect setup is implemented and
295 especially the output of the program (data structure) should
296 be considered alpha state. Also the user interface is not yet
297 ready.
298
299 ;general
300
301 * All command line options after -- are now interpreted as
302 arguments (usually everything which doesn't start with a minus)
303 rather than options (usually everything which starts with a
304 minus). This allows to use file names starting with a -
305
306 * In all resource files you can now initialize the random number
307 generator. For details see: MJob::InitRandomNumberGenerator
308
309 * added a new program called ''readcorsika''. It's purpose is (in analogy
310 to readraw and readdaq) to read a Corsika output file (for now
311 only cherenkov output is supported) and print its contents in a
312 human readable form. It can also write the contents of this file
313 into a root-file.
314
315 * The calculation of the maximum distance to the origin in a MGeomCam
316 has been improved (edges might be further away than the sides).
317 This is just a tiny change but it might change the appearance of
318 the radial profiles a little bit.
319
320 * The default binning of the center-of-gravity plot has slightly been
321 increased
322
323 ;Database
324
325 * Added informations about the DC currents (fMinCurrents, fMedCurrents
326 and fMaxCurrents). The values are retrieved from the plots showing
327 the average DC currents of all pixels versus time.
328
329 * Websites with tables have now the opportunity to remove lines
330 ('-' button at beginning of each line) and get all lines back
331 ('+' at top of the column)
332
333 * Websites: added option to query only sequences containing sumtrigger
334 events
335
336 * Websites: added option to group by date (year, month, night) for runs
337 and sequences and enabled that combining of different group-bys,
338 e.g. status, date and source is possible
339
340 ;automatic analyis
341
342 * Rewritten producing plots in the web.
343 New plots, namely the output of plotoptical.C (extinction curve from
344 KVA), plotstat.C (status of the automatic analysis (percentage of
345 processed, analysed data etc.)) and plotusage.C (statistics of the
346 condor usage in the data center) has been are available now next to the
347 plots of plotdb.C
348 Mean values from the plots (output of the macro) are provided in a
349 txt file now.
350 The creation of the plots for callisto, star and ganymed in the web is
351 now steered via database. Consequently the plots are faster and
352 reliable up-to-date.
353 For all plots, a new layout is available facilitating the browsing
354 through the plots and providing additional information on the
355 displayed values. (tabs.php) These plots are linked from the DB
356 websites and the wiki.
357
358 ;statusdisplay
359
360 * The ''Loop'' entry in the menu bar now contains an option to pause
361 the loop and to process single events.
362
363 ;merpp
364
365 * Fixed merpping of raw-files (the runheader tree got the name RunHeader
366 instead of RunHeaders)
367
368 * Now allows to merpp files newer than 2008/09/03.
369
370 * Added fixes for wrong (wrong or double) run- and file-numbers
371 written by Arehucas. For deatils see MRawRunHeader::FixRunNumbers
372
373 ;callisto
374
375 * Extracting the pulse position for the pulse position check events
376 with sum trigger were denied. This decreased the statistics
377 extremely and therefor the resulting puse position was calculated
378 quite weak. Now sum events pass the calculation if and only if they
379 have also a level 1 trigger.
380
381 * the extraction of pedestal events and pulse position from the
382 first data events is now more automatic and makes sure that
383 a more precise number of events is extracted independent of
384 the ratio with which pedestal events or events with signals
385 are contained in the data.
386
387 * Updated Muon calibration constants for all MUX data (teh changes were
388 all smaller than 5%)
389
390 ;star
391
392 * For the calculation of the effective on time all sum-triggered events
393 were skipped. Now all Level1-triggeres events will pass. This might
394 result in a slight inaccuracy of the effective on time.
395
396 ;ganymed
397
398 * If the source position is more than 1deg away from the camera
399 center an error is raised now.
400
401 * Hopefully fixed the bug ''ganymed crashes when resized''
402
403 ;sponde
404
405 * Fixed a problem which causes the fitted spectral slope to be displayed
406 incorrectly. If you use MJSpectrum::FormFlux in your macros make
407 sure that the parameter 0 of your fit is negative.
408
409 * Added a histogram showing the read source position of your MCs
410
411
412
413== Version 2.1.1 (2008/08/04) ==
414
415 ;Database
416
417 * Added the median number of photo electrons from the calibration
418 pulses to the db (fMedNumPheInner, fMedNumPheOuter) and the relative
419 error of their raw counts (fRelChargeRmsInner, fRelChargeRmsOuter)
420
421 * Added fTotOnTime, which is the on-time as given by the run-headers
422 (in contradiction to fAbsOnTime which comes from CC)
423
424 * Added new primaries for the new data structure (Magic II): for the
425 tables dealing with sequences (SequenceBuild Status, Sequences,
426 SequenceProcessStatus, Calibration, Star and DataSetSequenceProcessing)
427 this is the telescope number (fTelescopeNumber) for the tables dealing
428 with runs (RunData and RunProcessStatus) this is in addition the file
429 number (fFileNumber)
430
431 * Added column fPriority to the status tables to be able to steer the order
432 in which the data is processed. As default the run, sequence and dataset
433 number are used.
434
435 ;automatic analyis
436
437 * Adapted scripts to the new data structure: They can handle now different
438 telescopes (getting the information as usual from the database).
439 The paths for Magic 2 are not yet implemented.
440
441 ;general
442
443 * should work now with root 5.20/00 (please note that root 5.20/00
444 we encounter crahses in the status display which are ot yet
445 understood)
446
447 * Sequences and Datasets are now stored as "MDataSet" and "MSequence"
448 instead of the base name of the file. This makes them easier to
449 access from the code
450
451 * Default Monte Carlo names in MSequence do not require the _E at
452 the end anymore
453
454 * where abrrevating a sequence file with a sequence number is possible
455 also "telescope:sequence" is now accepted, e.g.:
456 star 2:2000123 --out=output
457 see the programs' help for more details.
458
459 * sequences (MSequence or MSequenceSQL) can now directly be retrieved
460 from the database. See the constructors for more details.
461
462 * MReadTree now supports friends
463
464 * MReadTree can now read also files not written by MARS and store
465 the data encapsulated in emulated MParContainers
466
467 * added a new starguider calibration valid since 15.1.08
468
469 ;showplot
470
471 * showplot can now read more than one file at once. This is especially
472 inetersting if reading files containing pure canvases
473
474 ;merpp
475
476 * we merpp the dc currents now also from the camera reports (they have
477 just a lower rate than the current reports, 0.1Hz instead of 1Hz)
478
479 * In the automatic analysis we omit merpping of the currents from the
480 caco files and use the lower rate camera reports from the cc files
481 instead
482
483 * merpp has been redisigned to allow merpping of the cc-reports
484 of a whole sequence. This allows to design a very simple analysis:
485 mkdir output
486 ./callisto 100776 --out=output
487 ./merpp 100776 output
488 ./star 100776 --ind=output --out=output
489 Instead of the sequence number also sequence files are accepted.
490
491 * Implemented a fix for run-numbers between 1001348 and 1001396
492 which were incorrectly assigned by the cc.
493
494
495 ;callisto
496
497 * added a filter again which was was removed in the last release.
498 it removed the most brightest events. This should not change
499 any analysis result because these events are so bright that
500 they cannot be analysed anyway, but the bad-pixel plots doesn't
501 show outliers.
502
503 * updated muon calibration constants for the periods 51-57,
504 58-63 and 67-
505
506 ;star
507
508 * The camera currents are now displayed with the rate of the camera
509 reports instead of the caco reports
510
511 ;ganymed
512
513 * if mc camera files are new enough (>=8) the source position in the
514 camera is now calculated from the stored telscope and shower
515 orientation (Note, that this might not be suitable in all cases
516 depending on the aim of the study. These case still needs
517 implementation)
518
519
520
521== Version 2.1 (2008/06/18) ==
522
523 ;Database
524
525 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
526
527 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
528
529 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
530 calibration run
531
532 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
533 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
534
535 ;general
536
537 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
538
539 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
540
541 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
542 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
543 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
544 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
545 using the option --debug-env=3
546
547 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
548 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
549 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
550
551 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
552 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
553 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
554 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
555 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
556 datasets).
557
558 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
559 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
560 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
561
562 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
563 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
564
565 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
566
567 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
568
569 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
570
571 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
572 in the output file
573
574 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
575 special studies)
576
577 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
578 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
579 liniking a lot.
580
581 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
582
583 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
584 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
585 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
586
587 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
588
589 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
590 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
591
592 ;showplot
593
594 * Added support for tiff files
595
596 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
597 name and title)
598
599 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
600
601 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
602 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
603 file name. For details see showplos's help.
604
605 ;merpp
606
607 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
608
609 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
610
611 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
612 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
613 For details see "merpp --help"
614
615 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
616 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
617 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
618 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
619 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
620
621 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
622 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
623
624 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
625 For example:
626 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
627 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
628
629 ;callisto
630
631 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
632 required for succeeding.
633
634 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
635
636 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
637 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
638
639 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
640
641 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
642 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
643 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
644 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
645 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
646
647 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
648 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
649 before the whole accessible range was used.
650
651 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
652 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
653 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
654
655 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
656 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
657
658 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
659 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
660
661 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
662 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
663
664 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
665 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
666
667 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
668 interleaved calibration events
669
670 * Using the new --test switch you can now calibrate the calibration
671 file
672
673 ;star
674
675 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
676
677 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
678 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
679
680 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
681 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
682 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
683
684 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
685 sum-trigger anymore
686
687 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
688 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
689 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
690 displayed in addition.
691
692 ;ganymed/sponde
693
694 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
695 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
696
697 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
698
699 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
700 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
701 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
702 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
703
704 ;sponde
705
706 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
707
708 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
709 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
710 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
711 it is quantizised in the order of a minute. Therefore you can switch
712 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
713 dead-time!)
714
715 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
716 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
717 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
718
719 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
720 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
721
722 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
723 if an output file given
724
725
726
727 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
728
729 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
730 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
731 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
732 teh check.
733
734 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
735 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
736 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
737 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
738 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
739 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
740 second file.
741
742 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
743 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
744 from the context menu)
745
746 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
747 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
748 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
749 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
750 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
751
752 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
753 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
754
755 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
756 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
757
758 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
759 within an Eventloop.
760
761 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
762 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
763 user defined histograms.
764
765 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
766 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
767 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
768 energy)
769
770 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
771 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
772 judge the result.
773
774 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
775 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
776 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
777 and shows lower bias than all other options.
778
779 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
780 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
781
782 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
783 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
784 doesn't contain off-sequences.
785
786 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
787 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
788 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
789 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
790
791 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
792 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
793 lines to your mars.rc:
794 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
795 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
796 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
797 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
798 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
799 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
800 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
801 use the summary file instead.
802
803 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
804 of calling
805 mars filename.root
806 you can now also use
807 mars sequence.txt
808 or
809 mars sequence.txt inputpath
810 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
811 sequence file should be used.
812
813 - mars: The default size has been increased
814
815 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
816 the calculated image parameters
817
818 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
819
820 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
821 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
822 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
823
824 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
825 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
826 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
827 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
828 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
829 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
830 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
831 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
832
833 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
834 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
835 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
836
837 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
838 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
839 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
840 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
841 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
842 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
843 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
844 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
845 as old files read in.
846
847 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
848 somehow. All constants have been updated.
849
850 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
851 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
852 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
853 updated.
854
855 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
856 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
857 good preselector for muons.
858
859 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
860 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
861 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
862 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
863 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
864
865 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
866 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
867 anything.
868
869 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
870 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
871 + CleanLevel0:
872 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
873 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
874 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
875 + TimeLevel1:
876 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
877 + TimeLevel2:
878 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
879 + PostCleanType:
880 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
881 0: No post cleaning
882 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
883 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
884 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
885 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
886 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
887 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
888 respectively
889 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
890 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
891
892 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
893 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
894 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
895 + CleanTime1: 1.75
896 + CleanTime2: 1.75
897 + PostCleanType: 3
898
899 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
900 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
901 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
902 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
903 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
904 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
905
906 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
907 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
908 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
909 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
910 survive your cuts!
911
912 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
913 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
914 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
915 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
916 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
917 accordingly!
918 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
919 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
920 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
921 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
922 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
923 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
924 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
925
926 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
927 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
928 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
929 you have to use Cut0 instead.
930
931 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
932 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
933 the number of off-regions use
934 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
935 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
936 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
937 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
938 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
939 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
940 is not properly set.
941 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
942
943 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
944 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
945 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
946 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
947 "nearest position" trick)
948
949 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
950 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
951 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
952
953 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
954
955 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
956 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
957 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
958 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
959 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
960 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
961 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
962 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
963 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
964 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
965 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
966 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
967
968 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
969 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
970
971 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
972 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
973 positions have disappeared.
974
975 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
976 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
977 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
978 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
979
980 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
981 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
982
983 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
984 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
985 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
986 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
987 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
988 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
989 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
990 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
991 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
992 no off-cut needed.
993 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
994 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
995
996 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
997
998 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
999 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
1000
1001 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
1002 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
1003
1004 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1005 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
1006
1007 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1008 give any improvement in simple.
1009
1010 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
1011 not implemented.
1012
1013 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
1014 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
1015 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
1016 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
1017 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
1018
1019 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
1020 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
1021 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
1022 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
1023 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
1024 different maximum impact parameters.
1025
1026 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
1027 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
1028 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
1029 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
1030 survive your cuts at all.
1031
1032 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
1033 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
1034 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
1035 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
1036 If you only store the status display from within the display
1037 the information is lost.
1038
1039 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
1040 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
1041 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1042 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
1043 CutQ and Cut0.
1044
1045 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
1046 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
1047 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
1048 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1049 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
1050 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
1051 after all cuts.
1052
1053 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
1054 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
1055 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
1056 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
1057 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
1058
1059 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
1060 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
1061 publications, they are only for production.
1062
1063 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
1064 is now processed only once
1065
1066 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
1067 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
1068 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
1069 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
1070 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
1071 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
1072 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
1073 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
1074 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
1075 in most cases.
1076
1077
1078
1079 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
1080
1081 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
1082 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
1083 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
1084 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
1085 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
1086 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
1087
1088 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
1089 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
1090 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
1091 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
1092 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
1093 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
1094
1095 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
1096 properly because the callisto output was currupted
1097
1098 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
1099 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
1100 sequence with different setup.
1101
1102 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
1103 code from cvs.
1104
1105 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
1106 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
1107 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
1108 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
1109
1110 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
1111 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
1112 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
1113 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
1114 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
1115 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
1116 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
1117 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
1118 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
1119 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
1120 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
1121 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
1122 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
1123 avoidable bias.
1124
1125 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
1126 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
1127 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
1128 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
1129 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
1130 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
1131
1132 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1133 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
1134 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
1135 problems.
1136
1137 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1138 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
1139 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
1140 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
1141
1142 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
1143 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
1144 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
1145 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
1146 ("HeightTm") to -1:
1147 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
1148 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
1149
1150
1151
1152
1153 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
1154
1155 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
1156 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
1157 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
1158
1159 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
1160
1161 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
1162
1163 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
1164 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
1165 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
1166
1167 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
1168 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
1169
1170 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
1171 callisto_mux.rc
1172
1173 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
1174 been removed
1175
1176 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
1177 replaced by the MC sequence number
1178
1179 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
1180 -mc option can now be omitted
1181
1182 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
1183 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
1184
1185 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
1186 for further simplification
1187
1188 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
1189 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
1190 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
1191 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
1192 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
1193 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
1194 properly)
1195
1196 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
1197 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
1198 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
1199 IACT wiki
1200 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
1201
1202 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
1203
1204 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
1205 the pedestal into account
1206
1207 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
1208 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
1209 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
1210
1211 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
1212 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
1213 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
1214 calibration.
1215
1216 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
1217 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
1218 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
1219 plus an absolute offset.
1220
1221 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
1222 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
1223
1224 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
1225 outlaying offset as unsuitable
1226
1227 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
1228 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
1229 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
1230 the relative time calibration seems stable.
1231
1232 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
1233 option can now be omitted.
1234
1235 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
1236 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
1237 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
1238 dataset file.
1239
1240 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
1241 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
1242
1243 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
1244 for wobble mode
1245
1246 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
1247 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
1248 has been added, executed before writing the final output
1249 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
1250 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
1251 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
1252 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
1253
1254 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
1255 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
1256 it will be written to the output file.
1257
1258
1259
1260 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
1261
1262 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
1263
1264 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
1265 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
1266
1267 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
1268 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
1269
1270 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
1271 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
1272 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
1273
1274 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
1275 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
1276 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
1277 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
1278
1279 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
1280 wrong results.
1281
1282 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
1283
1284 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
1285 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
1286
1287 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
1288 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
1289 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
1290 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
1291 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
1292 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
1293
1294 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
1295
1296 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
1297 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
1298 extractions done
1299 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
1300 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
1301 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
1302 not a copy-and-pasted one)
1303 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
1304 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
1305 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
1306 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
1307 and time which is consistent is returned
1308 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
1309 solution
1310 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
1311 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
1312 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
1313 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
1314 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
1315 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
1316 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
1317 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
1318
1319 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
1320 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
1321 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
1322 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
1323 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
1324 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
1325 temperature effects?)
1326
1327 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
1328 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
1329 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
1330
1331 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
1332 light condition to be ignored
1333
1334 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
1335 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
1336 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
1337 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
1338 the "SparkCut" directive
1339
1340 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
1341 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
1342
1343 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
1344 in the new phrase parsing
1345
1346 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
1347 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1348 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1349 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1350 the other options)
1351 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1352
1353 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
1354 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
1355 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
1356
1357 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
1358 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
1359 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
1360
1361 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
1362
1363 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
1364
1365 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
1366 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
1367 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
1368 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
1369 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
1370 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
1371 or the collection area dominate.
1372
1373
1374
1375 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
1376
1377 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
1378
1379 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
1380 websites.
1381
1382 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
1383 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
1384
1385 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
1386 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
1387 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
1388 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
1389
1390 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
1391 doesn't exist.
1392
1393 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
1394 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
1395
1396 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
1397 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
1398 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
1399
1400 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
1401 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
1402 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
1403 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
1404
1405 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
1406 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
1407 write them into a file in the future)
1408
1409 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
1410 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1411 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1412 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1413 the "DrawAll" option)
1414 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1415
1416
1417
1418 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
1419
1420 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
1421 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
1422 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
1423 wobble source/project
1424
1425 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
1426 moon properties
1427
1428 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
1429 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
1430 or of one star along one year
1431
1432
1433
1434 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
1435
1436 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
1437
1438 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
1439 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
1440 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
1441
1442 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
1443 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
1444 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
1445 properly into account... fixed.
1446
1447
1448
1449 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
1450
1451 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
1452 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
1453 code in this case is 255.
1454
1455 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
1456 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
1457 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
1458 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
1459 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
1460 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
1461 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
1462 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
1463 no-more used instead)
1464
1465 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
1466 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
1467
1468 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
1469 on in the compiler
1470
1471 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
1472 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
1473 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
1474
1475 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
1476 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
1477 is with "-1")
1478
1479 - showplot:
1480 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
1481 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
1482 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
1483 + added support for xml
1484 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
1485 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
1486 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
1487 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
1488 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
1489 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
1490 desktop-size: --auto-size
1491
1492 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
1493
1494 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
1495 program.
1496
1497 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
1498 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
1499
1500 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
1501 not be opened.
1502
1503 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
1504 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
1505 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
1506 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
1507 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
1508 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
1509
1510 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
1511 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
1512 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
1513 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
1514 by the lo-gain extractor
1515
1516 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1517
1518 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1519 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1520 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1521
1522 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1523 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1524 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1525 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1526 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1527 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1528 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1529
1530 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1531 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1532 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1533 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1534
1535 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1536 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1537 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1538 slice has been forbidden)
1539
1540 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1541 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1542 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1543
1544 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1545
1546 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1547 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1548 calibration update has happend.
1549
1550 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1551 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1552 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1553 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1554 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1555 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1556 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1557 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1558 test-database.
1559
1560 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1561 time. It never gave useful information.
1562
1563 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1564 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1565 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1566 LoGainSwitch.
1567
1568 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1569 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1570 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1571 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1572 the LoGainSwitch.
1573
1574 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1575 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1576 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1577 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1578 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1579
1580 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1581 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1582 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1583 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1584
1585 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1586 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1587 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1588 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1589 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1590 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1591 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1592 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1593 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1594 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1595 from the resulting gamma candidates
1596
1597 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1598 with the colz draw-option
1599
1600 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1601
1602 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1603 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1604 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1605 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1606
1607 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1608 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1609 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1610 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1611 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1612
1613 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1614 how to use random forest
1615
1616 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1617 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1618
1619 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1620 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1621 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1622 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1623
1624 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1625 a MC slope of -1.
1626
1627
1628
1629 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1630
1631 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1632 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1633
1634 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1635 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1636 respectively
1637
1638 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1639
1640 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1641
1642 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1643 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1644 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1645 by this arbitrary value.
1646
1647 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1648 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1649 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1650 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1651
1652 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1653 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1654 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1655
1656 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1657
1658 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1659 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1660 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1661 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1662 histograms.
1663 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1664 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1665 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1666
1667 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1668 starguider
1669
1670 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1671 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1672 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1673 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1674 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1675 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1676 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1677 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1678
1679 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1680 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1681 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1682 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1683 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1684
1685 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1686 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1687
1688
1689
1690 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1691
1692 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1693 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1694
1695 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1696 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1697 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1698
1699 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1700 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1701
1702 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1703
1704 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1705
1706 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1707 after 6.3.2006
1708
1709 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1710 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1711 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1712 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1713
1714 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1715 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1716 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1717 Recommended parameters:
1718 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1719 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1720 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1721 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1722
1723 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1724 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1725 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1726 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1727 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1728 time-scale) are missing.
1729
1730 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1731 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1732 people for weak sources.
1733
1734 - macros: plotdb.C:
1735 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1736 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1737 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1738 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1739
1740 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1741 the optimization became a lot faster
1742
1743 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1744 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1745
1746 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1747 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1748 initialization of the starguider calibration
1749
1750 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1751 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1752 resource file using:
1753 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1754 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1755
1756 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1757 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1758 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1759
1760 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1761 trigger (including the software trigger)
1762
1763 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1764 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1765 a defined energy:
1766 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1767
1768 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1769 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1770
1771
1772
1773 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1774
1775 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1776 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1777
1778 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1779 to plot statistics about the data processing
1780
1781 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1782 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1783
1784 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1785
1786 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1787 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1788 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1789 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1790
1791 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1792 different values for different periods
1793
1794 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1795 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1796 effective on-time)
1797
1798 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1799 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1800 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1801 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1802 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1803
1804 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1805
1806 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1807 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1808 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1809 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1810 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1811 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1812
1813 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1814 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1815
1816 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1817
1818 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1819 to 0.06
1820
1821 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1822 resource file.
1823 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1824
1825 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1826 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1827 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1828 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1829 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1830
1831 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1832 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1833
1834 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1835 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1836 on-data.
1837
1838
1839
1840 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1841
1842 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1843 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1844
1845 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1846 are now possible:
1847 showlog callisto 55599
1848 showplot signal 55599
1849 star 55599
1850 callisto 55999
1851 ganymed 2
1852 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1853 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1854 paths ("/magic/*")
1855
1856 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1857 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1858
1859 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1860 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1861
1862 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1863 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1864 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1865 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1866
1867 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1868 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1869 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1870 forest.
1871
1872 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1873 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1874 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1875
1876 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1877 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1878
1879 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1880 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1881
1882 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1883 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1884 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1885 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1886 size ratio.
1887
1888 - RanForest:
1889 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1890 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1891 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1892 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1893 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1894 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1895 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1896 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1897
1898 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1899 the events to be displayed, eg:
1900 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1901 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1902 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1903
1904 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1905 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1906 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1907 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1908 written to the CC tree.
1909
1910 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1911 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1912 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1913 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1914 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1915 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1916
1917 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1918 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1919 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1920 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1921
1922 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1923 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1924 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1925
1926 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1927 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1928
1929 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1930 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1931 --ins=/magic/sequences
1932 and where to search for the image data
1933 --ind=/magic/data/star
1934
1935 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1936 dx/dy from the resource file by
1937 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1938 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1939
1940 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1941 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1942 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1943 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1944 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1945 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1946
1947 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1948 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1949 for on-only analysis'
1950
1951 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1952 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1953
1954 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1955
1956 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1957 they are commonly used.
1958
1959 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1960 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1961
1962
1963
1964 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1965
1966 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1967 how to calculate the threshold
1968
1969 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1970 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1971 and MagicReversi)
1972
1973 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1974
1975 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1976
1977 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1978 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1979
1980 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1981 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1982 automatic processing
1983
1984 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1985 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1986 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1987 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1988 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1989 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1990
1991 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1992 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1993 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1994 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1995 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1996 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1997 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
1998 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
1999 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
2000 be supressed.
2001
2002 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
2003 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
2004 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
2005 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
2006 algorithm)
2007
2008 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
2009 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
2010 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
2011 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
2012 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
2013 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
2014 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
2015
2016 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
2017 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
2018 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
2019 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
2020 understood.
2021
2022 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
2023 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
2024 are sorted by their sequence number.
2025
2026 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
2027
2028 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
2029
2030
2031
2032 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
2033
2034 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
2035 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
2036 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
2037 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
2038
2039 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
2040 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
2041 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
2042
2043 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
2044 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
2045
2046
2047
2048 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
2049
2050 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
2051 MC binning
2052
2053 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
2054 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
2055
2056 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
2057
2058 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
2059
2060 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
2061
2062 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
2063
2064 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
2065 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
2066
2067 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
2068 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
2069 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
2070 of the subsystem data
2071
2072 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
2073 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
2074
2075 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
2076 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
2077
2078 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
2079
2080 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
2081
2082 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
2083
2084 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
2085
2086 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
2087 argument
2088
2089 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
2090 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
2091 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
2092 (MCameraHV).
2093
2094 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
2095 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
2096
2097 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
2098 menu, eg in the TBrowser
2099
2100 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
2101 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
2102 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2103 This is important mainly for timing studies.
2104
2105 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
2106 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
2107 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
2108 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
2109 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
2110 Introduced new limits:
2111 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
2112 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
2113 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
2114
2115 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
2116 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
2117 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
2118
2119 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
2120 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
2121
2122 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
2123 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
2124 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
2125 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
2126 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
2127 to make the distribution reliable.
2128
2129 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
2130 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
2131 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
2132 saturated and produced wrong limits.
2133
2134 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
2135 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
2136 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
2137 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
2138 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
2139
2140 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
2141 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
2142 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
2143 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
2144 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
2145 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
2146 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
2147 a good precision is needed.
2148
2149 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
2150 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
2151
2152 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
2153 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
2154 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
2155 changes.
2156
2157 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
2158 as calculated by MPedestalY2
2159
2160 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
2161 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
2162 calculated from interleaved events
2163
2164 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
2165 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
2166 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
2167 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
2168 task
2169
2170 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
2171
2172 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
2173 DC currents
2174
2175 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
2176 Pedestal Rms
2177
2178 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
2179
2180 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
2181 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
2182 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
2183 became pedestal rms dependant
2184
2185 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
2186 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
2187
2188 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
2189 May/April 05
2190
2191 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
2192 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
2193
2194 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
2195
2196 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
2197
2198 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
2199 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
2200 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
2201
2202 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
2203
2204 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
2205 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
2206 sqrt(2) to large
2207
2208 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
2209 and a background model determined in the first loop is
2210 subtracted
2211
2212 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
2213 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
2214 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
2215
2216 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
2217 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
2218 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
2219
2220 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
2221 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
2222 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
2223
2224 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
2225 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
2226 it off add
2227 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
2228 to your ganymed.rc
2229
2230 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
2231 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
2232 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
2233
2234 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
2235
2236
2237
2238 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
2239
2240 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
2241 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
2242
2243 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
2244 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
2245 before any other tree.
2246
2247 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
2248 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
2249 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
2250 correctly.
2251
2252 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
2253
2254 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
2255 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
2256 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
2257 the run stored in the runheader.
2258
2259 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
2260 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
2261 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2262
2263 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2264 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
2265 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
2266
2267 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
2268 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
2269 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
2270 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
2271
2272 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
2273 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
2274
2275 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
2276 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
2277 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
2278 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
2279 is fixed to 1
2280
2281 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
2282 more accurate now
2283
2284 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
2285 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
2286 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
2287
2288 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
2289
2290 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
2291 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
2292 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
2293
2294 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2295 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
2296
2297 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
2298 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
2299
2300 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
2301 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
2302
2303 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
2304 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
2305 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
2306 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
2307
2308 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
2309 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
2310 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
2311 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
2312 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
2313 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
2314 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
2315 the calibration constants by
2316 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2317 and
2318 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
2319 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
2320 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
2321 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
2322 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2323
2324 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
2325 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
2326 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
2327 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
2328
2329 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
2330 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
2331
2332 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
2333 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
2334 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
2335 NameHistFS: MHDisp
2336 For details about the requirements of these plots look
2337 at the corresponding classes
2338
2339 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
2340 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
2341 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
2342 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
2343 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
2344 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
2345 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
2346
2347 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
2348 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
2349 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
2350
2351 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
2352 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
2353 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
2354 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
2355 normalization is normally wrong.
2356
2357
2358
2359 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
2360
2361 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
2362 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
2363
2364 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
2365 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
2366
2367 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
2368 because ProcessFile is missleading
2369
2370 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
2371
2372 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
2373 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
2374 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
2375
2376 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
2377 versions newer than V200404070
2378
2379 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
2380 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
2381 (MCameraCentralPixel)
2382
2383 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
2384 (MHVsSize)
2385
2386 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
2387
2388 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
2389 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
2390 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
2391 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
2392 can be canged
2393
2394 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
2395 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
2396 using showlog.
2397
2398 - showplot: improved
2399 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
2400 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
2401 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
2402 the printing command from the command line you can use all
2403 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
2404 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
2405 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
2406 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
2407
2408 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
2409 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
2410 intensity has been updated in some cases)
2411
2412 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
2413 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
2414 been taken with Pin Diode.
2415
2416 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
2417 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
2418
2419 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
2420 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
2421
2422 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
2423 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
2424 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
2425 of the cosmisc
2426
2427 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
2428 from 2.5 to 4.5
2429
2430 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
2431 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
2432 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
2433 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
2434
2435 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
2436 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
2437 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
2438 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
2439 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
2440 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
2441 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
2442 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
2443 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
2444 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
2445 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
2446 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
2447 they are a lot slower)
2448 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
2449 random memory access it might by completely random!
2450
2451 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
2452 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
2453 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
2454
2455 - callisto:
2456 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
2457 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
2458 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
2459 Default: -9.0 +4.5
2460 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
2461
2462 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
2463 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
2464
2465 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
2466 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
2467 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
2468 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
2469 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
2470 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
2471 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
2472 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
2473
2474 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
2475 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
2476
2477 - callisto: for the common extractors
2478 + MExtractFixedWindow
2479 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
2480 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
2481 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2482 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
2483 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
2484
2485 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
2486 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
2487 hilocalib_df6.root
2488
2489 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
2490 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
2491 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
2492
2493 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
2494 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
2495 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
2496 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
2497 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
2498 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
2499 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
2500
2501 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
2502 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
2503 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
2504 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
2505 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
2506 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
2507
2508 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
2509
2510 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
2511 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
2512
2513 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
2514 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
2515 changed only minimally
2516
2517 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2518 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2519 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2520
2521 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2522 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2523 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2524 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2525
2526 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2527 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2528
2529
2530
2531 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2532
2533 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2534 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2535 by 0.2 slices)
2536
2537 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2538 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2539
2540 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2541 also done with a intercalibration input file
2542
2543 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2544
2545 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2546
2547 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2548
2549 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2550
2551 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2552
2553 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2554
2555 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2556
2557 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2558 which is more than 5 times the variance
2559
2560 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2561
2562 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2563 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2564
2565 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2566 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2567
2568 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2569 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2570
2571 - update the reference lines for the december data
2572
2573 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2574 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2575 pulse position changes much.
2576
2577 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2578 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2579 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2580
2581 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2582 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2583 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2584 runs a lot.
2585
2586 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2587 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2588
2589 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2590 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2591 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2592 than with old versions (wrong units))
2593
2594 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2595 formats are still unsupported by root)
2596
2597 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2598 for automatic processing
2599
2600
2601
2602 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2603
2604 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2605 decided by the Collaboration Board
2606
2607 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2608
2609 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2610
2611 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2612 and applied in callisto.
2613
2614 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2615
2616 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2617
2618 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2619 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2620
2621 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2622 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2623
2624 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2625 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2626 energy (Size) events.
2627
2628 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2629
2630 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2631 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2632
2633 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2634 (MHexagonalFT)
2635
2636 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2637 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2638
2639 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2640 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2641 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2642
2643 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2644
2645 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2646
2647 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2648 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2649
2650 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2651
2652 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2653 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2654 the slices by statistics
2655 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2656 signal extractor without randomization
2657 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2658 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2659 randomly fixed)
2660 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2661 long as nobody really needs it:
2662 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2663 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2664
2665 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2666
2667 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2668 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2669 roughly 0.5%
2670
2671 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2672 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2673 batch mode possible:
2674 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2675
2676 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2677 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2678
2679 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2680 camera files.
2681
2682 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2683
2684 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2685 accurate now
2686
2687 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2688 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2689 * the new implementation is faster and
2690 * needs less storage space
2691
2692 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2693 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2694
2695 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2696 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2697
2698 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2699
2700 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2701
2702
2703
2704 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2705
2706 - New combined signal and time extractor
2707 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2708
2709 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2710 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2711
2712 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2713
2714 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2715 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2716 more): showlog
2717
2718 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2719 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2720
2721 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2722 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2723 source
2724
2725 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2726 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2727
2728 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2729
2730 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2731 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2732
2733 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2734 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2735
2736 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2737 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2738 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2739
2740 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2741 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2742
2743 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2744 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2745
2746 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2747 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2748
2749 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2750 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2751 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2752
2753 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2754 version 4)
2755
2756 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2757 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2758
2759 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2760 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2761 a resource file: star.rc
2762
2763 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2764 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2765
2766 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2767 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2768
2769 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2770 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2771 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2772
2773 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2774 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2775 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2776 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2777
2778 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2779 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2780 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2781
2782 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2783 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2784 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2785
2786
2787
2788 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2789
2790 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2791 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2792
2793 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2794
2795 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2796
2797 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2798
2799 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2800
2801 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2802 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2803 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2804
2805 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2806
2807 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2808 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2809 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2810
2811 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2812 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2813
2814 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2815
2816 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2817
2818
2819
2820 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2821
2822 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2823 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2824
2825 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2826 ("pow(a, b)")
2827
2828 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2829 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2830
2831 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2832 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2833
2834 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2835 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2836 is implemented through the new virtual function
2837 MParContainer::SetVariables
2838
2839 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2840 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2841
2842 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2843 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2844
2845 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2846 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2847
2848 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2849 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2850 and will replace them.
2851
2852 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2853
2854 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2855 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2856 slices in the maximum window
2857
2858 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2859 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2860 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2861 studies.
2862
2863 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2864 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2865 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2866 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2867
2868 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2869 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2870
2871 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2872 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2873 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2874 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2875 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2876 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2877
2878 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2879 macro pedphotcalc.C
2880
2881 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2882
2883 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2884
2885 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2886 minimizations
2887
2888 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2889 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2890
2891 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2892
2893 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2894 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2895 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2896
2897 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2898 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2899
2900 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2901 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2902
2903 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2904
2905 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2906
2907 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2908
2909 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2910
2911 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2912
2913 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2914 + MJPedestals
2915 + MJCalibration
2916 + MJExtractSignal
2917 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2918
2919 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2920
2921 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2922 the evolution of a sector vs time
2923
2924
2925
2926 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2927
2928 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2929 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2930 camera version 0.7.
2931
2932 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2933 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2934
2935 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2936
2937 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2938 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2939 be done soon.
2940
2941 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2942 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2943
2944 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2945 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2946 of time (readrep.C)
2947
2948 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2949 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2950 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2951
2952 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2953 + Events --> Events
2954 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2955 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2956
2957 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2958
2959 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2960
2961 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2962 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2963
2964 - added classes to calculate event rate
2965 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2966
2967 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2968
2969 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2970
2971 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2972 the new 'Synchonizer'
2973
2974
2975
2976 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2977
2978 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2979 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2980 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2981
2982 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2983 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2984 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2985
2986 - added a new executable star which implements the
2987 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2988 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2989
2990 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2991 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2992 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2993
2994 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2995 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2996
2997 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
2998
2999
3000
3001 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
3002
3003 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
3004 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
3005 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
3006 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
3007
3008 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
3009 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
3010
3011 - added pedestal calculation
3012
3013 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
3014 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
3015
3016 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
3017
3018 - added basic routines to apply padding
3019
3020 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
3021 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
3022
3023 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
3024 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
3025
3026 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
3027 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
3028
3029 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
3030 at all)
3031
3032 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
3033 ignore files
3034
3035 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
3036 to simulate the PMT camera
3037
3038 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
3039 programs in the MC chain.
3040
3041 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
3042 parameter in an eventloop.
3043
3044 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
3045 location (Long, Lat, etc)
3046
3047 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
3048
3049 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
3050 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
3051
3052 - added a new status display which can show the present status
3053 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
3054 an example can be found at status.C)
3055
3056 - reorganized directories:
3057 classes describing the image --> mimage
3058 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
3059 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
3060
3061 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
3062
3063 - colors in logging output to screen
3064
3065 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
3066 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
3067 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
3068 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
3069 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
3070
3071 - reading of reflector files
3072
3073 - display data from reflector files in the camera
3074
3075 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
3076
3077 - logarithmic scale in camera
3078
3079 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
3080
3081
3082
3083 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
3084
3085 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
3086
3087 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
3088 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
3089 missing a single NN)
3090
3091 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
3092 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
3093 have any neighbour)
3094
3095 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
3096 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
3097 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
3098 please ask Abelardo)
3099
3100 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
3101 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
3102
3103 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
3104
3105 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
3106 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
3107 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
3108 changed.
3109
3110 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
3111 (MHMatrix)
3112
3113 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
3114 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
3115
3116 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
3117 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
3118
3119 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
3120 event display gui.
3121
3122 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
3123
3124 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
3125
3126 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
3127
3128 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
3129 to MHillas
3130
3131 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
3132
3133 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
3134
3135 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
3136
3137 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
3138
3139 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
3140 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
3141 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
3142
3143 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
3144
3145 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
3146 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
3147
3148 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
3149 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
3150 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
3151 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
3152 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
3153
3154 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
3155 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
3156
3157 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
3158 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
3159
3160 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
3161 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
3162
3163 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
3164
3165 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
3166
3167 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
3168 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
3169
3170 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
3171 (thanks to Raquel)
3172
3173 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
3174 estfit.C) using a parametrization
3175
3176 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
3177 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
3178 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
3179
3180
3181
3182 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
3183
3184 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
3185 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
3186 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
3187 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
3188
3189 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
3190 for the collection area calculation
3191
3192 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
3193 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
3194
3195 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
3196 of one container
3197
3198 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
3199 ascii file
3200
3201 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
3202 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
3203 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
3204 hillas parameters)
3205
3206 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
3207 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
3208 see MHillas and MHillasExt
3209
3210 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
3211 see MHillasSrc
3212
3213 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
3214 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
3215 all histograms)
3216
3217 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
3218
3219 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
3220
3221 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
3222
3223 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
3224 an output stream instead of the whole container only
3225
3226 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
3227 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
3228
3229 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
3230 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
3231
3232 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
3233 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
3234
3235 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
3236
3237 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
3238 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
3239 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
3240
3241 - Added:
3242 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
3243 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
3244 they are needed in the flux calculation in
3245 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
3246 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
3247 of Theta and the true energy
3248
3249 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
3250 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
3251 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
3252 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
3253 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
3254 by unfolding
3255
3256 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
3257
3258
3259
3260 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
3261
3262 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
3263 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
3264 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
3265
3266 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
3267
3268 - Introduced verbosity levels
3269
3270 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
3271
3272 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
3273 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
3274
3275 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
3276 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
3277
3278 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
3279
3280 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
3281
3282 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
3283 of a parameter container for each event
3284
3285 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
3286
3287 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
3288
3289 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
3290 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
3291 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
3292
3293 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
3294 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
3295 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
3296
3297
3298
3299 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
3300
3301 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
3302
3303 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
3304 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
3305
3306 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
3307 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
3308 states
3309
3310 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
3311 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
3312
3313 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
3314
3315 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
3316 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
3317
3318 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
3319 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
3320
3321 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
3322 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
3323 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
3324
3325 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
3326 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
3327
3328 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
3329 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
3330
3331 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
3332 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
3333
3334
3335
3336 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
3337
3338 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
3339
3340 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
3341
3342 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
3343
3344 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
3345
3346 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
3347
3348 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
3349
3350 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
3351
3352 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
3353
3354 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
3355 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
3356
3357
3358
3359 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
3360
3361 - Many demo macros added
3362
3363 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
3364
3365 - Hillas Calculation added
3366
3367 - Standard image cleaning available
3368
3369 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
3370 (Remark: of the same structure)
3371
3372 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
3373 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
3374 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
3375
3376
3377
3378 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
3379
3380 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
3381 gui with the command mars.
3382
3383
3384
3385 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
3386
3387 - First official release 0.1
3388
3389 - Changes:
3390
3391 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
3392 while-loop
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