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2
3== <cvs> ==
4
5== Version 2.4 (2009/12/23) ==
6
7 ;general:
8
9 * Added a new palette "temp" to MH::SetPalette which should resample
10 a temperature
11
12 * Added consistency check for two consecutive runs
13
14 * Since ~1006246 (preliminary) the L1 signal (which is L1 after L2)
15 has been disconnected and the L1 (L1TPU) has directly been connected
16 to another bit in the trigger pattern. This has been fixed by an
17 update of the decoding. Both bits are now or'ed together.
18
19 * Added a new camera layout MGeomCamFact which is the "four rectangular
20 pixels ordered in a hexagonal geometry" layout
21
22 * All programs now store the command line as TNamed "CommandLine"
23
24 * the environment variable OSTYPE should now be obsolete. Instead
25 the output of "uname -s" converted to lower cases is used
26
27 * The Makefiles should now detect the OSTYPE automatically using
28 uname. This should make the setting of OSTYPE obsolete
29
30 ;showplot:
31
32 * If a file without a MStatusArray is opened all object (not just
33 canvases) found in the file are drawn. Note that this may result
34 in empty tabs.
35
36 ;ceres:
37
38 * The night sky noise is now scaled with the sensitive area and
39 is given in units per square centimeter
40
41 * The night-sky noise now also takes the cones transmission
42 into account
43
44 * The night sky noise can now be calculated from a night-sky
45 spctrum
46
47 * A transmission curve for the cones can now be given
48
49 * Added the possibility to add a cut after the image parameter
50 calculation (''Cut'')
51
52 * updated the PDE of the GAPDs with a more reliable curve from
53 the meeting page (linear extrapolate below 350nm)
54
55 * The impact distribution in the event distrbutions is now
56 perpendicular to Alt/Az and the histogram is displayed in 1D
57
58 * The GAPD PDE has been updated
59
60 * PDEs and mirror reflectivities have been linearily extrapolated
61 to match the wavelegth range between 290nm and 900nm
62
63 * There is no default pulse shape anymoe it must be given in
64 the resource file
65
66 * Fixed a bug which caused the aerosol coefficient to be incorrectly
67 initialized. The effect might be random but seems to be small.
68
69 * Now accepts sequence files as input
70
71 * creation of pedestal and calibration files is now steered by
72 --mode (see ceres help)
73
74 * Instead of initializing the whole G-APD chip (all cells) before
75 each event (which is rather time consuming) a time evolution before
76 each event is now simulated which is enough to recovere every cell
77 to 99.999% of its response taking the background rate into account.
78 This is in total about a factor of ten faster and should not be
79 less accurate because under normal conditions the recovering cells
80 and the newly hitten cells will hardly be identical (due to
81 statistical reasons)
82
83 * improved the trigger algorithm which is now faster and allows easily
84 for multiplicity triggers
85
86 * The PDC flag in the file name is now correctly written
87
88 * A "PreCut" has been added which can be used after reading the events
89 to select them even before any calculation is done.
90
91 ;merpp:
92
93 * The new drive reports which contain also the status of the starguider
94 are now implemented, but the starting date (17/05/09) is preliminary.
95
96 ;callisto:
97
98 * Fixed a bug which prevented MAGIC Monte Carlo file from being
99 calibrated (ceres files worked)
100
101 * updated (Muon) calibration constants of period 62, 63, 72-75
102
103 ;star:
104
105 * allow to run thru even if discriminator threshold are missing
106 (they are not used for analysis so far anyway)
107
108 ;ganymed:
109
110 * added new starguider calibration for sequences since 1000534
111
112 ;database:
113
114 * added possiblity to query/plot data from certain source (with
115 regular expressions) in plotdb.php
116
117 * new feature in showplots*.php: on mouse-over additional information
118 on the sequence is displayed
119
120 * tables on database website have also 'Last' link now
121
122 * new version of builddatasets.php with more comfortable sequence
123 selection
124
125 * new features in builddatasets.php:
126 - user management
127 - 'Get Data Set File' button
128 - 'Display Selected Sequences' button
129 - 'Display Not Selected Sequences' button
130 - 'Select all' buttons
131
132 * builddatasets.php: added possibility to update data sets in the
133 database
134
135 * added limit for cloudiness for sequences in the tab 'Limits'
136
137 ;automation:
138
139 * jobmanager can be used more flexible now: via environnent variable
140 $AUTOMATIONSETUP more than one jobmanager per user can be started
141 using the same MARS version
142 Usage: export AUTOMATIONSETUP=mysetup ; /fullpath/jobmanager
143 and provide a file Mars/datacenter/scripts/setup.mysetup
144
145
146
147== Version 2.3 (2009/03/07) ==
148
149 ;SUGGESTION
150
151 * There is no need to re-run any data because no change took place which
152 could have an effect on the output. However, if you want a
153 meaningful SrcPos plot for your MCs in sponde you must re-process
154 star for your MCs first.
155
156 ;REMARK
157
158 * File produced with this release containing a camera geometry (which
159 are basically all files were produced as default) will not be readable
160 by older releases.
161
162 ;general
163
164 * fixed a few small bugs which could cause the display to crash in ganymed
165 and sponde
166
167 * in sequence file the date can now be omittet. In this case the
168 leading date with the underscore is missing in the expected filename
169
170 * the geometry class now also supports other geometries than just hexagons
171
172 ;automation
173
174 * added magnetic field Azimuth direction (ARRANG), currently
175 at ~ -7deg at La Palma
176
177 ;database
178
179 * plotdb.php: added default (sequences) for startup, added possibility
180 to set size of plot
181
182 * added a new table ''RunDataCheck'' which containes the rates after
183 image cleaning for every run which succeeded star. It can be
184 plotted using ''plotrundb.C''
185
186 ;merpp
187
188 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200812140
189
190 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200809030
191
192 ;mars
193
194 * The display now also displays the trigger pattern
195
196 * The display can now display ceres reflector (_R_) files
197
198 ;ceres
199
200 * added a uniformly distributed one-bin time jitter for the start of the
201 digitization. Otherwise the first photon would be digitized always with
202 the same alignment to the bins
203
204 * Added a plot showing the production height of the photons
205
206 * Moved the particle id from the event header to the run header
207
208 * Added the possibility to simulate a psf on the camera plane (MSimPSF)
209
210 * Added a new plot ''SignalMax'' showing the maximum entry into the pixels
211
212 * Added many new options to control the tasks. For deatils see ''ceres.rc''
213
214 * Removed obsolete plots in pedestal and calibration mode
215
216 * Removed the non-NightSky photons from the plots where they are just
217 disturbing
218
219 * Added a trigger pattern to the output (Ped, Cal or Lvl1)
220
221 * The daq event number now represents the readout number
222
223 * The camera ''electronics'' can now be ''switched off''
224
225 * A new tab ''Info'' now display basic things like the reflector
226 layout
227
228 * Improved reading speed for corsika files
229
230 * Improved memory handling (if a large ampount of memory was needed
231 for a single event all further events were stored in the same
232 memory and it was never freed, so the program took this memory
233 until the end)
234
235 * Converted the code from MMCS' reflector program to MSimAtmosphere
236 (instead of the tables build in for MAGIC Winter and Summer
237 atmosphere we use the values written by Corsika fitted to the
238 tabulated atmosphere given as input)
239
240 * For caluclating the displayed image parameters in ceres a basic
241 image cleaning removing isolated pixels is now done.
242
243 * The magnetic field direction (ARRANG) is now taken into account
244
245 * Added plot for the energy threshold after trigger ''Threshold''
246
247 * Added plot for the effective collection area after trigger ''TrigArea''
248
249 ;star
250
251 * Now outputs MSrcPosCam for Monte Carlos in the Events tree.
252
253 * The definition of fConcCore has slightly changed. The numbers
254 might decrease a little bit (the effect should be rather small)
255
256 ;ganymed
257
258 * added pointing model 328198
259
260 ;sponde
261
262 * The SrcPos plot for your MCs was so far meaningless because it just
263 displayes the MSrcPosCam data from the input star-files. Unfortunately,
264 this containes was never written to the star-files yet.
265
266 * A new Tab 'OnTime' is available which is an effective on-time
267 fit as in star but for all data. This is mainly for manual cross-check
268 of the effective on-time
269
270 * In some circumstances it might be necessary to re-calculate the
271 eff. on-time from the fit in the new tab, e.g. when a zenith distance
272 cut was made in ganymed. This can now be forced by ''--force-ontimefit''
273
274 * now reads the ''ganymed.rc'' from the ''ganymed.root'' and writes
275 it to its own output file (for convinience)
276
277
278
279== Version 2.2 (2009/01/30) ==
280
281 ;SUGGESTION
282
283 * This release doesn't contain a major change which is expected to
284 change your results. Nevertheless there are small changes to
285 the calibration which can effect at least the first few hundred
286 events in any (mainly MUX and even more SUM) sequence a little bit.
287 So it is recommended although not necessary to reset your sequences
288 in the database before further processing.
289
290 ;NEW
291
292 * A first implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation program
293 (ceres - Camera Electronics and REflector Simulation) has been
294 implemented. It can simulate a full telescope already including
295 a complete reflector simulation and a flexible trigger and readout
296 simulation. Currently, no perfect setup is implemented and
297 especially the output of the program (data structure) should
298 be considered alpha state. Also the user interface is not yet
299 ready.
300
301 ;general
302
303 * All command line options after -- are now interpreted as
304 arguments (usually everything which doesn't start with a minus)
305 rather than options (usually everything which starts with a
306 minus). This allows to use file names starting with a -
307
308 * In all resource files you can now initialize the random number
309 generator. For details see: MJob::InitRandomNumberGenerator
310
311 * added a new program called ''readcorsika''. It's purpose is (in analogy
312 to readraw and readdaq) to read a Corsika output file (for now
313 only cherenkov output is supported) and print its contents in a
314 human readable form. It can also write the contents of this file
315 into a root-file.
316
317 * The calculation of the maximum distance to the origin in a MGeomCam
318 has been improved (edges might be further away than the sides).
319 This is just a tiny change but it might change the appearance of
320 the radial profiles a little bit.
321
322 * The default binning of the center-of-gravity plot has slightly been
323 increased
324
325 ;Database
326
327 * Added informations about the DC currents (fMinCurrents, fMedCurrents
328 and fMaxCurrents). The values are retrieved from the plots showing
329 the average DC currents of all pixels versus time.
330
331 * Websites with tables have now the opportunity to remove lines
332 ('-' button at beginning of each line) and get all lines back
333 ('+' at top of the column)
334
335 * Websites: added option to query only sequences containing sumtrigger
336 events
337
338 * Websites: added option to group by date (year, month, night) for runs
339 and sequences and enabled that combining of different group-bys,
340 e.g. status, date and source is possible
341
342 ;automatic analyis
343
344 * Rewritten producing plots in the web.
345 New plots, namely the output of plotoptical.C (extinction curve from
346 KVA), plotstat.C (status of the automatic analysis (percentage of
347 processed, analysed data etc.)) and plotusage.C (statistics of the
348 condor usage in the data center) has been are available now next to the
349 plots of plotdb.C
350 Mean values from the plots (output of the macro) are provided in a
351 txt file now.
352 The creation of the plots for callisto, star and ganymed in the web is
353 now steered via database. Consequently the plots are faster and
354 reliable up-to-date.
355 For all plots, a new layout is available facilitating the browsing
356 through the plots and providing additional information on the
357 displayed values. (tabs.php) These plots are linked from the DB
358 websites and the wiki.
359
360 ;statusdisplay
361
362 * The ''Loop'' entry in the menu bar now contains an option to pause
363 the loop and to process single events.
364
365 ;merpp
366
367 * Fixed merpping of raw-files (the runheader tree got the name RunHeader
368 instead of RunHeaders)
369
370 * Now allows to merpp files newer than 2008/09/03.
371
372 * Added fixes for wrong (wrong or double) run- and file-numbers
373 written by Arehucas. For deatils see MRawRunHeader::FixRunNumbers
374
375 ;callisto
376
377 * Extracting the pulse position for the pulse position check events
378 with sum trigger were denied. This decreased the statistics
379 extremely and therefor the resulting puse position was calculated
380 quite weak. Now sum events pass the calculation if and only if they
381 have also a level 1 trigger.
382
383 * the extraction of pedestal events and pulse position from the
384 first data events is now more automatic and makes sure that
385 a more precise number of events is extracted independent of
386 the ratio with which pedestal events or events with signals
387 are contained in the data.
388
389 * Updated Muon calibration constants for all MUX data (teh changes were
390 all smaller than 5%)
391
392 ;star
393
394 * For the calculation of the effective on time all sum-triggered events
395 were skipped. Now all Level1-triggeres events will pass. This might
396 result in a slight inaccuracy of the effective on time.
397
398 ;ganymed
399
400 * If the source position is more than 1deg away from the camera
401 center an error is raised now.
402
403 * Hopefully fixed the bug ''ganymed crashes when resized''
404
405 ;sponde
406
407 * Fixed a problem which causes the fitted spectral slope to be displayed
408 incorrectly. If you use MJSpectrum::FormFlux in your macros make
409 sure that the parameter 0 of your fit is negative.
410
411 * Added a histogram showing the read source position of your MCs
412
413
414
415== Version 2.1.1 (2008/08/04) ==
416
417 ;Database
418
419 * Added the median number of photo electrons from the calibration
420 pulses to the db (fMedNumPheInner, fMedNumPheOuter) and the relative
421 error of their raw counts (fRelChargeRmsInner, fRelChargeRmsOuter)
422
423 * Added fTotOnTime, which is the on-time as given by the run-headers
424 (in contradiction to fAbsOnTime which comes from CC)
425
426 * Added new primaries for the new data structure (Magic II): for the
427 tables dealing with sequences (SequenceBuild Status, Sequences,
428 SequenceProcessStatus, Calibration, Star and DataSetSequenceProcessing)
429 this is the telescope number (fTelescopeNumber) for the tables dealing
430 with runs (RunData and RunProcessStatus) this is in addition the file
431 number (fFileNumber)
432
433 * Added column fPriority to the status tables to be able to steer the order
434 in which the data is processed. As default the run, sequence and dataset
435 number are used.
436
437 ;automatic analyis
438
439 * Adapted scripts to the new data structure: They can handle now different
440 telescopes (getting the information as usual from the database).
441 The paths for Magic 2 are not yet implemented.
442
443 ;general
444
445 * should work now with root 5.20/00 (please note that root 5.20/00
446 we encounter crahses in the status display which are ot yet
447 understood)
448
449 * Sequences and Datasets are now stored as "MDataSet" and "MSequence"
450 instead of the base name of the file. This makes them easier to
451 access from the code
452
453 * Default Monte Carlo names in MSequence do not require the _E at
454 the end anymore
455
456 * where abrrevating a sequence file with a sequence number is possible
457 also "telescope:sequence" is now accepted, e.g.:
458 star 2:2000123 --out=output
459 see the programs' help for more details.
460
461 * sequences (MSequence or MSequenceSQL) can now directly be retrieved
462 from the database. See the constructors for more details.
463
464 * MReadTree now supports friends
465
466 * MReadTree can now read also files not written by MARS and store
467 the data encapsulated in emulated MParContainers
468
469 * added a new starguider calibration valid since 15.1.08
470
471 ;showplot
472
473 * showplot can now read more than one file at once. This is especially
474 inetersting if reading files containing pure canvases
475
476 ;merpp
477
478 * we merpp the dc currents now also from the camera reports (they have
479 just a lower rate than the current reports, 0.1Hz instead of 1Hz)
480
481 * In the automatic analysis we omit merpping of the currents from the
482 caco files and use the lower rate camera reports from the cc files
483 instead
484
485 * merpp has been redisigned to allow merpping of the cc-reports
486 of a whole sequence. This allows to design a very simple analysis:
487 mkdir output
488 ./callisto 100776 --out=output
489 ./merpp 100776 output
490 ./star 100776 --ind=output --out=output
491 Instead of the sequence number also sequence files are accepted.
492
493 * Implemented a fix for run-numbers between 1001348 and 1001396
494 which were incorrectly assigned by the cc.
495
496
497 ;callisto
498
499 * added a filter again which was was removed in the last release.
500 it removed the most brightest events. This should not change
501 any analysis result because these events are so bright that
502 they cannot be analysed anyway, but the bad-pixel plots doesn't
503 show outliers.
504
505 * updated muon calibration constants for the periods 51-57,
506 58-63 and 67-
507
508 ;star
509
510 * The camera currents are now displayed with the rate of the camera
511 reports instead of the caco reports
512
513 ;ganymed
514
515 * if mc camera files are new enough (>=8) the source position in the
516 camera is now calculated from the stored telscope and shower
517 orientation (Note, that this might not be suitable in all cases
518 depending on the aim of the study. These case still needs
519 implementation)
520
521
522
523== Version 2.1 (2008/06/18) ==
524
525 ;Database
526
527 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
528
529 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
530
531 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
532 calibration run
533
534 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
535 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
536
537 ;general
538
539 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
540
541 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
542
543 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
544 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
545 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
546 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
547 using the option --debug-env=3
548
549 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
550 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
551 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
552
553 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
554 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
555 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
556 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
557 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
558 datasets).
559
560 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
561 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
562 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
563
564 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
565 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
566
567 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
568
569 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
570
571 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
572
573 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
574 in the output file
575
576 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
577 special studies)
578
579 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
580 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
581 liniking a lot.
582
583 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
584
585 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
586 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
587 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
588
589 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
590
591 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
592 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
593
594 ;showplot
595
596 * Added support for tiff files
597
598 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
599 name and title)
600
601 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
602
603 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
604 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
605 file name. For details see showplos's help.
606
607 ;merpp
608
609 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
610
611 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
612
613 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
614 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
615 For details see "merpp --help"
616
617 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
618 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
619 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
620 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
621 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
622
623 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
624 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
625
626 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
627 For example:
628 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
629 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
630
631 ;callisto
632
633 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
634 required for succeeding.
635
636 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
637
638 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
639 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
640
641 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
642
643 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
644 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
645 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
646 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
647 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
648
649 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
650 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
651 before the whole accessible range was used.
652
653 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
654 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
655 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
656
657 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
658 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
659
660 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
661 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
662
663 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
664 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
665
666 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
667 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
668
669 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
670 interleaved calibration events
671
672 * Using the new --test switch you can now calibrate the calibration
673 file
674
675 ;star
676
677 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
678
679 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
680 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
681
682 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
683 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
684 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
685
686 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
687 sum-trigger anymore
688
689 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
690 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
691 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
692 displayed in addition.
693
694 ;ganymed/sponde
695
696 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
697 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
698
699 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
700
701 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
702 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
703 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
704 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
705
706 ;sponde
707
708 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
709
710 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
711 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
712 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
713 it is quantizised in the order of a minute. Therefore you can switch
714 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
715 dead-time!)
716
717 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
718 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
719 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
720
721 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
722 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
723
724 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
725 if an output file given
726
727
728
729 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
730
731 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
732 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
733 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
734 teh check.
735
736 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
737 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
738 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
739 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
740 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
741 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
742 second file.
743
744 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
745 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
746 from the context menu)
747
748 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
749 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
750 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
751 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
752 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
753
754 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
755 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
756
757 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
758 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
759
760 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
761 within an Eventloop.
762
763 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
764 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
765 user defined histograms.
766
767 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
768 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
769 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
770 energy)
771
772 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
773 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
774 judge the result.
775
776 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
777 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
778 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
779 and shows lower bias than all other options.
780
781 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
782 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
783
784 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
785 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
786 doesn't contain off-sequences.
787
788 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
789 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
790 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
791 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
792
793 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
794 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
795 lines to your mars.rc:
796 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
797 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
798 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
799 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
800 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
801 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
802 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
803 use the summary file instead.
804
805 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
806 of calling
807 mars filename.root
808 you can now also use
809 mars sequence.txt
810 or
811 mars sequence.txt inputpath
812 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
813 sequence file should be used.
814
815 - mars: The default size has been increased
816
817 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
818 the calculated image parameters
819
820 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
821
822 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
823 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
824 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
825
826 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
827 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
828 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
829 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
830 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
831 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
832 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
833 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
834
835 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
836 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
837 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
838
839 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
840 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
841 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
842 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
843 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
844 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
845 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
846 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
847 as old files read in.
848
849 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
850 somehow. All constants have been updated.
851
852 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
853 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
854 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
855 updated.
856
857 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
858 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
859 good preselector for muons.
860
861 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
862 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
863 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
864 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
865 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
866
867 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
868 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
869 anything.
870
871 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
872 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
873 + CleanLevel0:
874 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
875 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
876 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
877 + TimeLevel1:
878 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
879 + TimeLevel2:
880 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
881 + PostCleanType:
882 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
883 0: No post cleaning
884 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
885 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
886 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
887 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
888 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
889 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
890 respectively
891 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
892 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
893
894 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
895 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
896 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
897 + CleanTime1: 1.75
898 + CleanTime2: 1.75
899 + PostCleanType: 3
900
901 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
902 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
903 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
904 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
905 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
906 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
907
908 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
909 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
910 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
911 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
912 survive your cuts!
913
914 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
915 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
916 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
917 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
918 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
919 accordingly!
920 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
921 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
922 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
923 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
924 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
925 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
926 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
927
928 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
929 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
930 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
931 you have to use Cut0 instead.
932
933 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
934 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
935 the number of off-regions use
936 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
937 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
938 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
939 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
940 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
941 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
942 is not properly set.
943 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
944
945 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
946 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
947 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
948 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
949 "nearest position" trick)
950
951 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
952 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
953 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
954
955 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
956
957 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
958 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
959 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
960 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
961 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
962 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
963 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
964 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
965 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
966 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
967 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
968 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
969
970 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
971 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
972
973 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
974 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
975 positions have disappeared.
976
977 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
978 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
979 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
980 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
981
982 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
983 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
984
985 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
986 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
987 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
988 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
989 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
990 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
991 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
992 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
993 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
994 no off-cut needed.
995 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
996 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
997
998 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
999
1000 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
1001 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
1002
1003 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
1004 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
1005
1006 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1007 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
1008
1009 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1010 give any improvement in simple.
1011
1012 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
1013 not implemented.
1014
1015 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
1016 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
1017 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
1018 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
1019 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
1020
1021 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
1022 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
1023 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
1024 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
1025 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
1026 different maximum impact parameters.
1027
1028 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
1029 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
1030 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
1031 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
1032 survive your cuts at all.
1033
1034 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
1035 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
1036 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
1037 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
1038 If you only store the status display from within the display
1039 the information is lost.
1040
1041 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
1042 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
1043 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1044 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
1045 CutQ and Cut0.
1046
1047 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
1048 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
1049 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
1050 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1051 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
1052 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
1053 after all cuts.
1054
1055 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
1056 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
1057 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
1058 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
1059 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
1060
1061 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
1062 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
1063 publications, they are only for production.
1064
1065 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
1066 is now processed only once
1067
1068 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
1069 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
1070 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
1071 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
1072 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
1073 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
1074 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
1075 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
1076 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
1077 in most cases.
1078
1079
1080
1081 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
1082
1083 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
1084 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
1085 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
1086 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
1087 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
1088 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
1089
1090 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
1091 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
1092 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
1093 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
1094 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
1095 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
1096
1097 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
1098 properly because the callisto output was currupted
1099
1100 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
1101 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
1102 sequence with different setup.
1103
1104 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
1105 code from cvs.
1106
1107 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
1108 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
1109 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
1110 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
1111
1112 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
1113 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
1114 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
1115 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
1116 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
1117 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
1118 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
1119 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
1120 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
1121 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
1122 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
1123 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
1124 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
1125 avoidable bias.
1126
1127 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
1128 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
1129 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
1130 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
1131 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
1132 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
1133
1134 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1135 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
1136 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
1137 problems.
1138
1139 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1140 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
1141 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
1142 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
1143
1144 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
1145 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
1146 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
1147 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
1148 ("HeightTm") to -1:
1149 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
1150 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
1151
1152
1153
1154
1155 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
1156
1157 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
1158 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
1159 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
1160
1161 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
1162
1163 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
1164
1165 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
1166 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
1167 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
1168
1169 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
1170 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
1171
1172 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
1173 callisto_mux.rc
1174
1175 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
1176 been removed
1177
1178 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
1179 replaced by the MC sequence number
1180
1181 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
1182 -mc option can now be omitted
1183
1184 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
1185 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
1186
1187 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
1188 for further simplification
1189
1190 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
1191 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
1192 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
1193 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
1194 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
1195 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
1196 properly)
1197
1198 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
1199 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
1200 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
1201 IACT wiki
1202 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
1203
1204 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
1205
1206 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
1207 the pedestal into account
1208
1209 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
1210 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
1211 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
1212
1213 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
1214 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
1215 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
1216 calibration.
1217
1218 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
1219 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
1220 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
1221 plus an absolute offset.
1222
1223 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
1224 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
1225
1226 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
1227 outlaying offset as unsuitable
1228
1229 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
1230 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
1231 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
1232 the relative time calibration seems stable.
1233
1234 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
1235 option can now be omitted.
1236
1237 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
1238 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
1239 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
1240 dataset file.
1241
1242 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
1243 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
1244
1245 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
1246 for wobble mode
1247
1248 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
1249 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
1250 has been added, executed before writing the final output
1251 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
1252 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
1253 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
1254 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
1255
1256 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
1257 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
1258 it will be written to the output file.
1259
1260
1261
1262 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
1263
1264 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
1265
1266 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
1267 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
1268
1269 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
1270 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
1271
1272 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
1273 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
1274 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
1275
1276 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
1277 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
1278 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
1279 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
1280
1281 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
1282 wrong results.
1283
1284 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
1285
1286 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
1287 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
1288
1289 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
1290 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
1291 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
1292 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
1293 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
1294 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
1295
1296 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
1297
1298 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
1299 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
1300 extractions done
1301 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
1302 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
1303 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
1304 not a copy-and-pasted one)
1305 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
1306 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
1307 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
1308 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
1309 and time which is consistent is returned
1310 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
1311 solution
1312 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
1313 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
1314 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
1315 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
1316 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
1317 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
1318 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
1319 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
1320
1321 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
1322 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
1323 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
1324 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
1325 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
1326 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
1327 temperature effects?)
1328
1329 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
1330 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
1331 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
1332
1333 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
1334 light condition to be ignored
1335
1336 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
1337 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
1338 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
1339 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
1340 the "SparkCut" directive
1341
1342 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
1343 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
1344
1345 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
1346 in the new phrase parsing
1347
1348 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
1349 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1350 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1351 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1352 the other options)
1353 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1354
1355 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
1356 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
1357 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
1358
1359 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
1360 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
1361 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
1362
1363 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
1364
1365 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
1366
1367 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
1368 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
1369 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
1370 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
1371 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
1372 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
1373 or the collection area dominate.
1374
1375
1376
1377 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
1378
1379 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
1380
1381 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
1382 websites.
1383
1384 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
1385 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
1386
1387 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
1388 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
1389 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
1390 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
1391
1392 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
1393 doesn't exist.
1394
1395 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
1396 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
1397
1398 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
1399 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
1400 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
1401
1402 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
1403 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
1404 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
1405 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
1406
1407 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
1408 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
1409 write them into a file in the future)
1410
1411 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
1412 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1413 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1414 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1415 the "DrawAll" option)
1416 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1417
1418
1419
1420 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
1421
1422 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
1423 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
1424 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
1425 wobble source/project
1426
1427 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
1428 moon properties
1429
1430 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
1431 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
1432 or of one star along one year
1433
1434
1435
1436 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
1437
1438 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
1439
1440 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
1441 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
1442 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
1443
1444 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
1445 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
1446 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
1447 properly into account... fixed.
1448
1449
1450
1451 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
1452
1453 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
1454 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
1455 code in this case is 255.
1456
1457 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
1458 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
1459 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
1460 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
1461 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
1462 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
1463 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
1464 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
1465 no-more used instead)
1466
1467 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
1468 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
1469
1470 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
1471 on in the compiler
1472
1473 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
1474 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
1475 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
1476
1477 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
1478 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
1479 is with "-1")
1480
1481 - showplot:
1482 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
1483 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
1484 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
1485 + added support for xml
1486 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
1487 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
1488 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
1489 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
1490 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
1491 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
1492 desktop-size: --auto-size
1493
1494 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
1495
1496 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
1497 program.
1498
1499 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
1500 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
1501
1502 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
1503 not be opened.
1504
1505 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
1506 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
1507 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
1508 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
1509 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
1510 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
1511
1512 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
1513 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
1514 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
1515 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
1516 by the lo-gain extractor
1517
1518 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1519
1520 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1521 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1522 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1523
1524 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1525 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1526 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1527 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1528 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1529 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1530 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1531
1532 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1533 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1534 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1535 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1536
1537 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1538 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1539 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1540 slice has been forbidden)
1541
1542 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1543 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1544 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1545
1546 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1547
1548 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1549 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1550 calibration update has happend.
1551
1552 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1553 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1554 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1555 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1556 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1557 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1558 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1559 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1560 test-database.
1561
1562 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1563 time. It never gave useful information.
1564
1565 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1566 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1567 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1568 LoGainSwitch.
1569
1570 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1571 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1572 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1573 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1574 the LoGainSwitch.
1575
1576 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1577 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1578 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1579 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1580 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1581
1582 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1583 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1584 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1585 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1586
1587 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1588 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1589 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1590 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1591 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1592 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1593 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1594 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1595 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1596 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1597 from the resulting gamma candidates
1598
1599 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1600 with the colz draw-option
1601
1602 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1603
1604 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1605 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1606 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1607 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1608
1609 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1610 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1611 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1612 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1613 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1614
1615 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1616 how to use random forest
1617
1618 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1619 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1620
1621 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1622 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1623 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1624 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1625
1626 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1627 a MC slope of -1.
1628
1629
1630
1631 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1632
1633 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1634 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1635
1636 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1637 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1638 respectively
1639
1640 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1641
1642 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1643
1644 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1645 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1646 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1647 by this arbitrary value.
1648
1649 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1650 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1651 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1652 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1653
1654 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1655 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1656 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1657
1658 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1659
1660 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1661 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1662 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1663 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1664 histograms.
1665 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1666 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1667 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1668
1669 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1670 starguider
1671
1672 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1673 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1674 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1675 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1676 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1677 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1678 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1679 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1680
1681 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1682 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1683 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1684 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1685 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1686
1687 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1688 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1689
1690
1691
1692 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1693
1694 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1695 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1696
1697 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1698 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1699 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1700
1701 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1702 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1703
1704 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1705
1706 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1707
1708 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1709 after 6.3.2006
1710
1711 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1712 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1713 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1714 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1715
1716 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1717 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1718 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1719 Recommended parameters:
1720 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1721 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1722 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1723 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1724
1725 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1726 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1727 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1728 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1729 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1730 time-scale) are missing.
1731
1732 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1733 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1734 people for weak sources.
1735
1736 - macros: plotdb.C:
1737 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1738 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1739 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1740 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1741
1742 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1743 the optimization became a lot faster
1744
1745 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1746 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1747
1748 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1749 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1750 initialization of the starguider calibration
1751
1752 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1753 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1754 resource file using:
1755 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1756 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1757
1758 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1759 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1760 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1761
1762 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1763 trigger (including the software trigger)
1764
1765 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1766 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1767 a defined energy:
1768 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1769
1770 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1771 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1772
1773
1774
1775 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1776
1777 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1778 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1779
1780 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1781 to plot statistics about the data processing
1782
1783 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1784 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1785
1786 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1787
1788 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1789 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1790 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1791 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1792
1793 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1794 different values for different periods
1795
1796 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1797 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1798 effective on-time)
1799
1800 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1801 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1802 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1803 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1804 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1805
1806 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1807
1808 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1809 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1810 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1811 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1812 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1813 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1814
1815 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1816 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1817
1818 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1819
1820 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1821 to 0.06
1822
1823 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1824 resource file.
1825 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1826
1827 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1828 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1829 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1830 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1831 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1832
1833 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1834 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1835
1836 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1837 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1838 on-data.
1839
1840
1841
1842 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1843
1844 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1845 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1846
1847 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1848 are now possible:
1849 showlog callisto 55599
1850 showplot signal 55599
1851 star 55599
1852 callisto 55999
1853 ganymed 2
1854 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1855 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1856 paths ("/magic/*")
1857
1858 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1859 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1860
1861 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1862 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1863
1864 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1865 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1866 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1867 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1868
1869 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1870 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1871 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1872 forest.
1873
1874 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1875 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1876 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1877
1878 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1879 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1880
1881 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1882 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1883
1884 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1885 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1886 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1887 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1888 size ratio.
1889
1890 - RanForest:
1891 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1892 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1893 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1894 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1895 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1896 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1897 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1898 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1899
1900 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1901 the events to be displayed, eg:
1902 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1903 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1904 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1905
1906 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1907 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1908 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1909 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1910 written to the CC tree.
1911
1912 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1913 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1914 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1915 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1916 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1917 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1918
1919 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1920 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1921 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1922 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1923
1924 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1925 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1926 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1927
1928 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1929 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1930
1931 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1932 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1933 --ins=/magic/sequences
1934 and where to search for the image data
1935 --ind=/magic/data/star
1936
1937 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1938 dx/dy from the resource file by
1939 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1940 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1941
1942 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1943 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1944 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1945 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1946 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1947 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1948
1949 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1950 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1951 for on-only analysis'
1952
1953 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1954 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1955
1956 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1957
1958 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1959 they are commonly used.
1960
1961 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1962 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1963
1964
1965
1966 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1967
1968 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1969 how to calculate the threshold
1970
1971 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1972 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1973 and MagicReversi)
1974
1975 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1976
1977 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1978
1979 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1980 resource file resources/calibration.rc
1981
1982 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
1983 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
1984 automatic processing
1985
1986 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
1987 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
1988 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
1989 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
1990 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
1991 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
1992
1993 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
1994 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
1995 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
1996 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
1997 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
1998 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
1999 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
2000 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
2001 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
2002 be supressed.
2003
2004 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
2005 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
2006 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
2007 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
2008 algorithm)
2009
2010 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
2011 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
2012 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
2013 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
2014 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
2015 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
2016 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
2017
2018 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
2019 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
2020 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
2021 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
2022 understood.
2023
2024 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
2025 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
2026 are sorted by their sequence number.
2027
2028 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
2029
2030 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
2031
2032
2033
2034 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
2035
2036 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
2037 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
2038 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
2039 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
2040
2041 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
2042 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
2043 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
2044
2045 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
2046 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
2047
2048
2049
2050 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
2051
2052 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
2053 MC binning
2054
2055 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
2056 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
2057
2058 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
2059
2060 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
2061
2062 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
2063
2064 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
2065
2066 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
2067 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
2068
2069 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
2070 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
2071 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
2072 of the subsystem data
2073
2074 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
2075 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
2076
2077 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
2078 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
2079
2080 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
2081
2082 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
2083
2084 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
2085
2086 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
2087
2088 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
2089 argument
2090
2091 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
2092 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
2093 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
2094 (MCameraHV).
2095
2096 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
2097 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
2098
2099 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
2100 menu, eg in the TBrowser
2101
2102 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
2103 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
2104 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2105 This is important mainly for timing studies.
2106
2107 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
2108 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
2109 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
2110 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
2111 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
2112 Introduced new limits:
2113 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
2114 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
2115 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
2116
2117 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
2118 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
2119 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
2120
2121 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
2122 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
2123
2124 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
2125 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
2126 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
2127 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
2128 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
2129 to make the distribution reliable.
2130
2131 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
2132 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
2133 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
2134 saturated and produced wrong limits.
2135
2136 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
2137 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
2138 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
2139 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
2140 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
2141
2142 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
2143 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
2144 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
2145 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
2146 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
2147 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
2148 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
2149 a good precision is needed.
2150
2151 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
2152 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
2153
2154 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
2155 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
2156 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
2157 changes.
2158
2159 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
2160 as calculated by MPedestalY2
2161
2162 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
2163 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
2164 calculated from interleaved events
2165
2166 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
2167 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
2168 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
2169 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
2170 task
2171
2172 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
2173
2174 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
2175 DC currents
2176
2177 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
2178 Pedestal Rms
2179
2180 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
2181
2182 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
2183 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
2184 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
2185 became pedestal rms dependant
2186
2187 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
2188 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
2189
2190 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
2191 May/April 05
2192
2193 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
2194 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
2195
2196 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
2197
2198 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
2199
2200 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
2201 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
2202 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
2203
2204 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
2205
2206 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
2207 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
2208 sqrt(2) to large
2209
2210 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
2211 and a background model determined in the first loop is
2212 subtracted
2213
2214 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
2215 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
2216 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
2217
2218 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
2219 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
2220 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
2221
2222 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
2223 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
2224 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
2225
2226 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
2227 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
2228 it off add
2229 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
2230 to your ganymed.rc
2231
2232 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
2233 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
2234 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
2235
2236 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
2237
2238
2239
2240 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
2241
2242 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
2243 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
2244
2245 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
2246 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
2247 before any other tree.
2248
2249 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
2250 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
2251 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
2252 correctly.
2253
2254 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
2255
2256 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
2257 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
2258 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
2259 the run stored in the runheader.
2260
2261 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
2262 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
2263 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2264
2265 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2266 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
2267 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
2268
2269 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
2270 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
2271 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
2272 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
2273
2274 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
2275 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
2276
2277 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
2278 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
2279 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
2280 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
2281 is fixed to 1
2282
2283 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
2284 more accurate now
2285
2286 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
2287 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
2288 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
2289
2290 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
2291
2292 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
2293 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
2294 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
2295
2296 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2297 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
2298
2299 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
2300 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
2301
2302 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
2303 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
2304
2305 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
2306 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
2307 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
2308 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
2309
2310 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
2311 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
2312 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
2313 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
2314 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
2315 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
2316 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
2317 the calibration constants by
2318 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2319 and
2320 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
2321 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
2322 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
2323 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
2324 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2325
2326 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
2327 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
2328 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
2329 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
2330
2331 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
2332 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
2333
2334 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
2335 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
2336 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
2337 NameHistFS: MHDisp
2338 For details about the requirements of these plots look
2339 at the corresponding classes
2340
2341 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
2342 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
2343 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
2344 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
2345 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
2346 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
2347 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
2348
2349 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
2350 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
2351 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
2352
2353 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
2354 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
2355 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
2356 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
2357 normalization is normally wrong.
2358
2359
2360
2361 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
2362
2363 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
2364 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
2365
2366 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
2367 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
2368
2369 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
2370 because ProcessFile is missleading
2371
2372 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
2373
2374 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
2375 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
2376 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
2377
2378 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
2379 versions newer than V200404070
2380
2381 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
2382 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
2383 (MCameraCentralPixel)
2384
2385 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
2386 (MHVsSize)
2387
2388 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
2389
2390 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
2391 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
2392 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
2393 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
2394 can be canged
2395
2396 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
2397 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
2398 using showlog.
2399
2400 - showplot: improved
2401 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
2402 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
2403 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
2404 the printing command from the command line you can use all
2405 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
2406 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
2407 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
2408 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
2409
2410 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
2411 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
2412 intensity has been updated in some cases)
2413
2414 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
2415 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
2416 been taken with Pin Diode.
2417
2418 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
2419 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
2420
2421 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
2422 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
2423
2424 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
2425 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
2426 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
2427 of the cosmisc
2428
2429 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
2430 from 2.5 to 4.5
2431
2432 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
2433 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
2434 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
2435 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
2436
2437 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
2438 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
2439 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
2440 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
2441 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
2442 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
2443 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
2444 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
2445 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
2446 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
2447 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
2448 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
2449 they are a lot slower)
2450 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
2451 random memory access it might by completely random!
2452
2453 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
2454 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
2455 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
2456
2457 - callisto:
2458 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
2459 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
2460 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
2461 Default: -9.0 +4.5
2462 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
2463
2464 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
2465 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
2466
2467 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
2468 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
2469 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
2470 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
2471 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
2472 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
2473 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
2474 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
2475
2476 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
2477 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
2478
2479 - callisto: for the common extractors
2480 + MExtractFixedWindow
2481 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
2482 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
2483 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2484 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
2485 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
2486
2487 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
2488 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
2489 hilocalib_df6.root
2490
2491 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
2492 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
2493 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
2494
2495 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
2496 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
2497 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
2498 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
2499 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
2500 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
2501 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
2502
2503 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
2504 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
2505 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
2506 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
2507 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
2508 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
2509
2510 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
2511
2512 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
2513 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
2514
2515 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
2516 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
2517 changed only minimally
2518
2519 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2520 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2521 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2522
2523 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2524 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2525 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2526 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2527
2528 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2529 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2530
2531
2532
2533 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2534
2535 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2536 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2537 by 0.2 slices)
2538
2539 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2540 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2541
2542 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2543 also done with a intercalibration input file
2544
2545 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2546
2547 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2548
2549 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2550
2551 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2552
2553 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2554
2555 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2556
2557 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2558
2559 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2560 which is more than 5 times the variance
2561
2562 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2563
2564 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2565 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2566
2567 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2568 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2569
2570 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2571 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2572
2573 - update the reference lines for the december data
2574
2575 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2576 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2577 pulse position changes much.
2578
2579 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2580 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2581 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2582
2583 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2584 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2585 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2586 runs a lot.
2587
2588 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2589 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2590
2591 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2592 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2593 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2594 than with old versions (wrong units))
2595
2596 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2597 formats are still unsupported by root)
2598
2599 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2600 for automatic processing
2601
2602
2603
2604 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2605
2606 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2607 decided by the Collaboration Board
2608
2609 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2610
2611 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2612
2613 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2614 and applied in callisto.
2615
2616 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2617
2618 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2619
2620 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2621 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2622
2623 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2624 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2625
2626 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2627 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2628 energy (Size) events.
2629
2630 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2631
2632 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2633 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2634
2635 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2636 (MHexagonalFT)
2637
2638 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2639 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2640
2641 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2642 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2643 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2644
2645 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2646
2647 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2648
2649 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2650 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2651
2652 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2653
2654 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2655 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2656 the slices by statistics
2657 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2658 signal extractor without randomization
2659 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2660 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2661 randomly fixed)
2662 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2663 long as nobody really needs it:
2664 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2665 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2666
2667 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2668
2669 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2670 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2671 roughly 0.5%
2672
2673 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2674 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2675 batch mode possible:
2676 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2677
2678 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2679 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2680
2681 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2682 camera files.
2683
2684 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2685
2686 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2687 accurate now
2688
2689 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2690 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2691 * the new implementation is faster and
2692 * needs less storage space
2693
2694 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2695 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2696
2697 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2698 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2699
2700 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2701
2702 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2703
2704
2705
2706 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2707
2708 - New combined signal and time extractor
2709 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2710
2711 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2712 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2713
2714 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2715
2716 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2717 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2718 more): showlog
2719
2720 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2721 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2722
2723 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2724 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2725 source
2726
2727 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2728 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2729
2730 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2731
2732 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2733 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2734
2735 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2736 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2737
2738 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2739 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2740 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2741
2742 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2743 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2744
2745 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2746 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2747
2748 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2749 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2750
2751 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2752 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2753 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2754
2755 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2756 version 4)
2757
2758 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2759 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2760
2761 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2762 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2763 a resource file: star.rc
2764
2765 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2766 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2767
2768 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2769 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2770
2771 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2772 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2773 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2774
2775 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2776 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2777 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2778 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2779
2780 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2781 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2782 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2783
2784 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2785 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2786 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2787
2788
2789
2790 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2791
2792 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2793 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2794
2795 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2796
2797 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2798
2799 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2800
2801 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2802
2803 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2804 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2805 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2806
2807 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2808
2809 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2810 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2811 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2812
2813 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2814 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2815
2816 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2817
2818 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2819
2820
2821
2822 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2823
2824 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2825 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2826
2827 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2828 ("pow(a, b)")
2829
2830 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2831 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2832
2833 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2834 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2835
2836 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2837 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2838 is implemented through the new virtual function
2839 MParContainer::SetVariables
2840
2841 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2842 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2843
2844 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2845 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2846
2847 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2848 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2849
2850 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2851 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2852 and will replace them.
2853
2854 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2855
2856 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2857 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2858 slices in the maximum window
2859
2860 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2861 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2862 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2863 studies.
2864
2865 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2866 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2867 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2868 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2869
2870 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2871 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2872
2873 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2874 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2875 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2876 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2877 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2878 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2879
2880 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2881 macro pedphotcalc.C
2882
2883 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2884
2885 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2886
2887 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2888 minimizations
2889
2890 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2891 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2892
2893 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2894
2895 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2896 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2897 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2898
2899 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2900 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2901
2902 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2903 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2904
2905 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2906
2907 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2908
2909 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2910
2911 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2912
2913 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2914
2915 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2916 + MJPedestals
2917 + MJCalibration
2918 + MJExtractSignal
2919 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2920
2921 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2922
2923 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2924 the evolution of a sector vs time
2925
2926
2927
2928 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2929
2930 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2931 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2932 camera version 0.7.
2933
2934 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2935 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2936
2937 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2938
2939 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2940 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2941 be done soon.
2942
2943 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2944 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2945
2946 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2947 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2948 of time (readrep.C)
2949
2950 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2951 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2952 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2953
2954 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2955 + Events --> Events
2956 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2957 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2958
2959 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2960
2961 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2962
2963 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2964 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2965
2966 - added classes to calculate event rate
2967 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2968
2969 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2970
2971 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2972
2973 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2974 the new 'Synchonizer'
2975
2976
2977
2978 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2979
2980 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
2981 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
2982 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
2983
2984 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
2985 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
2986 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
2987
2988 - added a new executable star which implements the
2989 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
2990 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
2991
2992 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
2993 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
2994 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
2995
2996 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
2997 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
2998
2999 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
3000
3001
3002
3003 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
3004
3005 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
3006 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
3007 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
3008 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
3009
3010 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
3011 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
3012
3013 - added pedestal calculation
3014
3015 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
3016 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
3017
3018 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
3019
3020 - added basic routines to apply padding
3021
3022 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
3023 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
3024
3025 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
3026 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
3027
3028 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
3029 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
3030
3031 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
3032 at all)
3033
3034 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
3035 ignore files
3036
3037 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
3038 to simulate the PMT camera
3039
3040 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
3041 programs in the MC chain.
3042
3043 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
3044 parameter in an eventloop.
3045
3046 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
3047 location (Long, Lat, etc)
3048
3049 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
3050
3051 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
3052 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
3053
3054 - added a new status display which can show the present status
3055 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
3056 an example can be found at status.C)
3057
3058 - reorganized directories:
3059 classes describing the image --> mimage
3060 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
3061 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
3062
3063 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
3064
3065 - colors in logging output to screen
3066
3067 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
3068 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
3069 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
3070 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
3071 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
3072
3073 - reading of reflector files
3074
3075 - display data from reflector files in the camera
3076
3077 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
3078
3079 - logarithmic scale in camera
3080
3081 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
3082
3083
3084
3085 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
3086
3087 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
3088
3089 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
3090 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
3091 missing a single NN)
3092
3093 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
3094 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
3095 have any neighbour)
3096
3097 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
3098 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
3099 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
3100 please ask Abelardo)
3101
3102 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
3103 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
3104
3105 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
3106
3107 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
3108 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
3109 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
3110 changed.
3111
3112 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
3113 (MHMatrix)
3114
3115 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
3116 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
3117
3118 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
3119 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
3120
3121 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
3122 event display gui.
3123
3124 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
3125
3126 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
3127
3128 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
3129
3130 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
3131 to MHillas
3132
3133 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
3134
3135 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
3136
3137 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
3138
3139 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
3140
3141 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
3142 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
3143 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
3144
3145 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
3146
3147 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
3148 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
3149
3150 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
3151 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
3152 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
3153 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
3154 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
3155
3156 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
3157 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
3158
3159 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
3160 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
3161
3162 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
3163 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
3164
3165 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
3166
3167 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
3168
3169 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
3170 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
3171
3172 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
3173 (thanks to Raquel)
3174
3175 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
3176 estfit.C) using a parametrization
3177
3178 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
3179 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
3180 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
3181
3182
3183
3184 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
3185
3186 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
3187 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
3188 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
3189 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
3190
3191 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
3192 for the collection area calculation
3193
3194 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
3195 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
3196
3197 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
3198 of one container
3199
3200 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
3201 ascii file
3202
3203 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
3204 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
3205 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
3206 hillas parameters)
3207
3208 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
3209 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
3210 see MHillas and MHillasExt
3211
3212 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
3213 see MHillasSrc
3214
3215 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
3216 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
3217 all histograms)
3218
3219 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
3220
3221 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
3222
3223 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
3224
3225 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
3226 an output stream instead of the whole container only
3227
3228 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
3229 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
3230
3231 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
3232 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
3233
3234 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
3235 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
3236
3237 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
3238
3239 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
3240 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
3241 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
3242
3243 - Added:
3244 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
3245 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
3246 they are needed in the flux calculation in
3247 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
3248 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
3249 of Theta and the true energy
3250
3251 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
3252 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
3253 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
3254 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
3255 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
3256 by unfolding
3257
3258 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
3259
3260
3261
3262 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
3263
3264 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
3265 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
3266 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
3267
3268 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
3269
3270 - Introduced verbosity levels
3271
3272 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
3273
3274 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
3275 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
3276
3277 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
3278 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
3279
3280 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
3281
3282 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
3283
3284 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
3285 of a parameter container for each event
3286
3287 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
3288
3289 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
3290
3291 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
3292 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
3293 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
3294
3295 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
3296 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
3297 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
3298
3299
3300
3301 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
3302
3303 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
3304
3305 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
3306 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
3307
3308 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
3309 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
3310 states
3311
3312 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
3313 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
3314
3315 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
3316
3317 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
3318 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
3319
3320 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
3321 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
3322
3323 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
3324 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
3325 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
3326
3327 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
3328 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
3329
3330 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
3331 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
3332
3333 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
3334 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
3335
3336
3337
3338 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
3339
3340 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
3341
3342 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
3343
3344 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
3345
3346 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
3347
3348 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
3349
3350 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
3351
3352 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
3353
3354 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
3355
3356 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
3357 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
3358
3359
3360
3361 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
3362
3363 - Many demo macros added
3364
3365 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
3366
3367 - Hillas Calculation added
3368
3369 - Standard image cleaning available
3370
3371 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
3372 (Remark: of the same structure)
3373
3374 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
3375 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
3376 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
3377
3378
3379
3380 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
3381
3382 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
3383 gui with the command mars.
3384
3385
3386
3387 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
3388
3389 - First official release 0.1
3390
3391 - Changes:
3392
3393 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
3394 while-loop
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