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2
3== <cvs> ==
4
5 ;general:
6
7 * On some systems (version of make?) the __LINUX__ definition was not set
8 when compiling. This lead to MTime(-1) not working properly. Fixed.
9
10 ;ceres:
11
12 * Allow for individual mirrors with parabolic shape (for details see
13 MReflector::ReadFile)
14
15 * As an additional output artificial star-files are written. They
16 contain star output compatible output based on the signal as
17 in the artificial callisto output files.
18
19 * The trigger channel which issued the trigger is now stored in
20 MRawEvtHeader::fNumTriggerLvl1
21
22
23
24== Version 2.4 (2009/12/23) ==
25
26 ;general:
27
28 * Added a new palette "temp" to MH::SetPalette which should resample
29 a temperature
30
31 * Added consistency check for two consecutive runs
32
33 * Since ~1006246 (preliminary) the L1 signal (which is L1 after L2)
34 has been disconnected and the L1 (L1TPU) has directly been connected
35 to another bit in the trigger pattern. This has been fixed by an
36 update of the decoding. Both bits are now or'ed together.
37
38 * Added a new camera layout MGeomCamFact which is the "four rectangular
39 pixels ordered in a hexagonal geometry" layout
40
41 * All programs now store the command line as TNamed "CommandLine"
42
43 * the environment variable OSTYPE should now be obsolete. Instead
44 the output of "uname -s" converted to lower cases is used
45
46 * The Makefiles should now detect the OSTYPE automatically using
47 uname. This should make the setting of OSTYPE obsolete
48
49 ;showplot:
50
51 * If a file without a MStatusArray is opened all object (not just
52 canvases) found in the file are drawn. Note that this may result
53 in empty tabs.
54
55 ;ceres:
56
57 * The night sky noise is now scaled with the sensitive area and
58 is given in units per square centimeter
59
60 * The night-sky noise now also takes the cones transmission
61 into account
62
63 * The night sky noise can now be calculated from a night-sky
64 spctrum
65
66 * A transmission curve for the cones can now be given
67
68 * Added the possibility to add a cut after the image parameter
69 calculation (''Cut'')
70
71 * updated the PDE of the GAPDs with a more reliable curve from
72 the meeting page (linear extrapolate below 350nm)
73
74 * The impact distribution in the event distrbutions is now
75 perpendicular to Alt/Az and the histogram is displayed in 1D
76
77 * The GAPD PDE has been updated
78
79 * PDEs and mirror reflectivities have been linearily extrapolated
80 to match the wavelegth range between 290nm and 900nm
81
82 * There is no default pulse shape anymoe it must be given in
83 the resource file
84
85 * Fixed a bug which caused the aerosol coefficient to be incorrectly
86 initialized. The effect might be random but seems to be small.
87
88 * Now accepts sequence files as input
89
90 * creation of pedestal and calibration files is now steered by
91 --mode (see ceres help)
92
93 * Instead of initializing the whole G-APD chip (all cells) before
94 each event (which is rather time consuming) a time evolution before
95 each event is now simulated which is enough to recovere every cell
96 to 99.999% of its response taking the background rate into account.
97 This is in total about a factor of ten faster and should not be
98 less accurate because under normal conditions the recovering cells
99 and the newly hitten cells will hardly be identical (due to
100 statistical reasons)
101
102 * improved the trigger algorithm which is now faster and allows easily
103 for multiplicity triggers
104
105 * The PDC flag in the file name is now correctly written
106
107 * A "PreCut" has been added which can be used after reading the events
108 to select them even before any calculation is done.
109
110 ;merpp:
111
112 * The new drive reports which contain also the status of the starguider
113 are now implemented, but the starting date (17/05/09) is preliminary.
114
115 ;callisto:
116
117 * Fixed a bug which prevented MAGIC Monte Carlo file from being
118 calibrated (ceres files worked)
119
120 * updated (Muon) calibration constants of period 62, 63, 72-75
121
122 ;star:
123
124 * allow to run thru even if discriminator threshold are missing
125 (they are not used for analysis so far anyway)
126
127 ;ganymed:
128
129 * added new starguider calibration for sequences since 1000534
130
131 ;database:
132
133 * added possiblity to query/plot data from certain source (with
134 regular expressions) in plotdb.php
135
136 * new feature in showplots*.php: on mouse-over additional information
137 on the sequence is displayed
138
139 * tables on database website have also 'Last' link now
140
141 * new version of builddatasets.php with more comfortable sequence
142 selection
143
144 * new features in builddatasets.php:
145 - user management
146 - 'Get Data Set File' button
147 - 'Display Selected Sequences' button
148 - 'Display Not Selected Sequences' button
149 - 'Select all' buttons
150
151 * builddatasets.php: added possibility to update data sets in the
152 database
153
154 * added limit for cloudiness for sequences in the tab 'Limits'
155
156 ;automation:
157
158 * jobmanager can be used more flexible now: via environnent variable
159 $AUTOMATIONSETUP more than one jobmanager per user can be started
160 using the same MARS version
161 Usage: export AUTOMATIONSETUP=mysetup ; /fullpath/jobmanager
162 and provide a file Mars/datacenter/scripts/setup.mysetup
163
164
165
166== Version 2.3 (2009/03/07) ==
167
168 ;SUGGESTION
169
170 * There is no need to re-run any data because no change took place which
171 could have an effect on the output. However, if you want a
172 meaningful SrcPos plot for your MCs in sponde you must re-process
173 star for your MCs first.
174
175 ;REMARK
176
177 * File produced with this release containing a camera geometry (which
178 are basically all files were produced as default) will not be readable
179 by older releases.
180
181 ;general
182
183 * fixed a few small bugs which could cause the display to crash in ganymed
184 and sponde
185
186 * in sequence file the date can now be omittet. In this case the
187 leading date with the underscore is missing in the expected filename
188
189 * the geometry class now also supports other geometries than just hexagons
190
191 ;automation
192
193 * added magnetic field Azimuth direction (ARRANG), currently
194 at ~ -7deg at La Palma
195
196 ;database
197
198 * plotdb.php: added default (sequences) for startup, added possibility
199 to set size of plot
200
201 * added a new table ''RunDataCheck'' which containes the rates after
202 image cleaning for every run which succeeded star. It can be
203 plotted using ''plotrundb.C''
204
205 ;merpp
206
207 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200812140
208
209 * added support for Arehucas Version >= 200809030
210
211 ;mars
212
213 * The display now also displays the trigger pattern
214
215 * The display can now display ceres reflector (_R_) files
216
217 ;ceres
218
219 * added a uniformly distributed one-bin time jitter for the start of the
220 digitization. Otherwise the first photon would be digitized always with
221 the same alignment to the bins
222
223 * Added a plot showing the production height of the photons
224
225 * Moved the particle id from the event header to the run header
226
227 * Added the possibility to simulate a psf on the camera plane (MSimPSF)
228
229 * Added a new plot ''SignalMax'' showing the maximum entry into the pixels
230
231 * Added many new options to control the tasks. For deatils see ''ceres.rc''
232
233 * Removed obsolete plots in pedestal and calibration mode
234
235 * Removed the non-NightSky photons from the plots where they are just
236 disturbing
237
238 * Added a trigger pattern to the output (Ped, Cal or Lvl1)
239
240 * The daq event number now represents the readout number
241
242 * The camera ''electronics'' can now be ''switched off''
243
244 * A new tab ''Info'' now display basic things like the reflector
245 layout
246
247 * Improved reading speed for corsika files
248
249 * Improved memory handling (if a large ampount of memory was needed
250 for a single event all further events were stored in the same
251 memory and it was never freed, so the program took this memory
252 until the end)
253
254 * Converted the code from MMCS' reflector program to MSimAtmosphere
255 (instead of the tables build in for MAGIC Winter and Summer
256 atmosphere we use the values written by Corsika fitted to the
257 tabulated atmosphere given as input)
258
259 * For caluclating the displayed image parameters in ceres a basic
260 image cleaning removing isolated pixels is now done.
261
262 * The magnetic field direction (ARRANG) is now taken into account
263
264 * Added plot for the energy threshold after trigger ''Threshold''
265
266 * Added plot for the effective collection area after trigger ''TrigArea''
267
268 ;star
269
270 * Now outputs MSrcPosCam for Monte Carlos in the Events tree.
271
272 * The definition of fConcCore has slightly changed. The numbers
273 might decrease a little bit (the effect should be rather small)
274
275 ;ganymed
276
277 * added pointing model 328198
278
279 ;sponde
280
281 * The SrcPos plot for your MCs was so far meaningless because it just
282 displayes the MSrcPosCam data from the input star-files. Unfortunately,
283 this containes was never written to the star-files yet.
284
285 * A new Tab 'OnTime' is available which is an effective on-time
286 fit as in star but for all data. This is mainly for manual cross-check
287 of the effective on-time
288
289 * In some circumstances it might be necessary to re-calculate the
290 eff. on-time from the fit in the new tab, e.g. when a zenith distance
291 cut was made in ganymed. This can now be forced by ''--force-ontimefit''
292
293 * now reads the ''ganymed.rc'' from the ''ganymed.root'' and writes
294 it to its own output file (for convinience)
295
296
297
298== Version 2.2 (2009/01/30) ==
299
300 ;SUGGESTION
301
302 * This release doesn't contain a major change which is expected to
303 change your results. Nevertheless there are small changes to
304 the calibration which can effect at least the first few hundred
305 events in any (mainly MUX and even more SUM) sequence a little bit.
306 So it is recommended although not necessary to reset your sequences
307 in the database before further processing.
308
309 ;NEW
310
311 * A first implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation program
312 (ceres - Camera Electronics and REflector Simulation) has been
313 implemented. It can simulate a full telescope already including
314 a complete reflector simulation and a flexible trigger and readout
315 simulation. Currently, no perfect setup is implemented and
316 especially the output of the program (data structure) should
317 be considered alpha state. Also the user interface is not yet
318 ready.
319
320 ;general
321
322 * All command line options after -- are now interpreted as
323 arguments (usually everything which doesn't start with a minus)
324 rather than options (usually everything which starts with a
325 minus). This allows to use file names starting with a -
326
327 * In all resource files you can now initialize the random number
328 generator. For details see: MJob::InitRandomNumberGenerator
329
330 * added a new program called ''readcorsika''. It's purpose is (in analogy
331 to readraw and readdaq) to read a Corsika output file (for now
332 only cherenkov output is supported) and print its contents in a
333 human readable form. It can also write the contents of this file
334 into a root-file.
335
336 * The calculation of the maximum distance to the origin in a MGeomCam
337 has been improved (edges might be further away than the sides).
338 This is just a tiny change but it might change the appearance of
339 the radial profiles a little bit.
340
341 * The default binning of the center-of-gravity plot has slightly been
342 increased
343
344 ;Database
345
346 * Added informations about the DC currents (fMinCurrents, fMedCurrents
347 and fMaxCurrents). The values are retrieved from the plots showing
348 the average DC currents of all pixels versus time.
349
350 * Websites with tables have now the opportunity to remove lines
351 ('-' button at beginning of each line) and get all lines back
352 ('+' at top of the column)
353
354 * Websites: added option to query only sequences containing sumtrigger
355 events
356
357 * Websites: added option to group by date (year, month, night) for runs
358 and sequences and enabled that combining of different group-bys,
359 e.g. status, date and source is possible
360
361 ;automatic analyis
362
363 * Rewritten producing plots in the web.
364 New plots, namely the output of plotoptical.C (extinction curve from
365 KVA), plotstat.C (status of the automatic analysis (percentage of
366 processed, analysed data etc.)) and plotusage.C (statistics of the
367 condor usage in the data center) has been are available now next to the
368 plots of plotdb.C
369 Mean values from the plots (output of the macro) are provided in a
370 txt file now.
371 The creation of the plots for callisto, star and ganymed in the web is
372 now steered via database. Consequently the plots are faster and
373 reliable up-to-date.
374 For all plots, a new layout is available facilitating the browsing
375 through the plots and providing additional information on the
376 displayed values. (tabs.php) These plots are linked from the DB
377 websites and the wiki.
378
379 ;statusdisplay
380
381 * The ''Loop'' entry in the menu bar now contains an option to pause
382 the loop and to process single events.
383
384 ;merpp
385
386 * Fixed merpping of raw-files (the runheader tree got the name RunHeader
387 instead of RunHeaders)
388
389 * Now allows to merpp files newer than 2008/09/03.
390
391 * Added fixes for wrong (wrong or double) run- and file-numbers
392 written by Arehucas. For deatils see MRawRunHeader::FixRunNumbers
393
394 ;callisto
395
396 * Extracting the pulse position for the pulse position check events
397 with sum trigger were denied. This decreased the statistics
398 extremely and therefor the resulting puse position was calculated
399 quite weak. Now sum events pass the calculation if and only if they
400 have also a level 1 trigger.
401
402 * the extraction of pedestal events and pulse position from the
403 first data events is now more automatic and makes sure that
404 a more precise number of events is extracted independent of
405 the ratio with which pedestal events or events with signals
406 are contained in the data.
407
408 * Updated Muon calibration constants for all MUX data (teh changes were
409 all smaller than 5%)
410
411 ;star
412
413 * For the calculation of the effective on time all sum-triggered events
414 were skipped. Now all Level1-triggeres events will pass. This might
415 result in a slight inaccuracy of the effective on time.
416
417 ;ganymed
418
419 * If the source position is more than 1deg away from the camera
420 center an error is raised now.
421
422 * Hopefully fixed the bug ''ganymed crashes when resized''
423
424 ;sponde
425
426 * Fixed a problem which causes the fitted spectral slope to be displayed
427 incorrectly. If you use MJSpectrum::FormFlux in your macros make
428 sure that the parameter 0 of your fit is negative.
429
430 * Added a histogram showing the read source position of your MCs
431
432
433
434== Version 2.1.1 (2008/08/04) ==
435
436 ;Database
437
438 * Added the median number of photo electrons from the calibration
439 pulses to the db (fMedNumPheInner, fMedNumPheOuter) and the relative
440 error of their raw counts (fRelChargeRmsInner, fRelChargeRmsOuter)
441
442 * Added fTotOnTime, which is the on-time as given by the run-headers
443 (in contradiction to fAbsOnTime which comes from CC)
444
445 * Added new primaries for the new data structure (Magic II): for the
446 tables dealing with sequences (SequenceBuild Status, Sequences,
447 SequenceProcessStatus, Calibration, Star and DataSetSequenceProcessing)
448 this is the telescope number (fTelescopeNumber) for the tables dealing
449 with runs (RunData and RunProcessStatus) this is in addition the file
450 number (fFileNumber)
451
452 * Added column fPriority to the status tables to be able to steer the order
453 in which the data is processed. As default the run, sequence and dataset
454 number are used.
455
456 ;automatic analyis
457
458 * Adapted scripts to the new data structure: They can handle now different
459 telescopes (getting the information as usual from the database).
460 The paths for Magic 2 are not yet implemented.
461
462 ;general
463
464 * should work now with root 5.20/00 (please note that root 5.20/00
465 we encounter crahses in the status display which are ot yet
466 understood)
467
468 * Sequences and Datasets are now stored as "MDataSet" and "MSequence"
469 instead of the base name of the file. This makes them easier to
470 access from the code
471
472 * Default Monte Carlo names in MSequence do not require the _E at
473 the end anymore
474
475 * where abrrevating a sequence file with a sequence number is possible
476 also "telescope:sequence" is now accepted, e.g.:
477 star 2:2000123 --out=output
478 see the programs' help for more details.
479
480 * sequences (MSequence or MSequenceSQL) can now directly be retrieved
481 from the database. See the constructors for more details.
482
483 * MReadTree now supports friends
484
485 * MReadTree can now read also files not written by MARS and store
486 the data encapsulated in emulated MParContainers
487
488 * added a new starguider calibration valid since 15.1.08
489
490 ;showplot
491
492 * showplot can now read more than one file at once. This is especially
493 inetersting if reading files containing pure canvases
494
495 ;merpp
496
497 * we merpp the dc currents now also from the camera reports (they have
498 just a lower rate than the current reports, 0.1Hz instead of 1Hz)
499
500 * In the automatic analysis we omit merpping of the currents from the
501 caco files and use the lower rate camera reports from the cc files
502 instead
503
504 * merpp has been redisigned to allow merpping of the cc-reports
505 of a whole sequence. This allows to design a very simple analysis:
506 mkdir output
507 ./callisto 100776 --out=output
508 ./merpp 100776 output
509 ./star 100776 --ind=output --out=output
510 Instead of the sequence number also sequence files are accepted.
511
512 * Implemented a fix for run-numbers between 1001348 and 1001396
513 which were incorrectly assigned by the cc.
514
515
516 ;callisto
517
518 * added a filter again which was was removed in the last release.
519 it removed the most brightest events. This should not change
520 any analysis result because these events are so bright that
521 they cannot be analysed anyway, but the bad-pixel plots doesn't
522 show outliers.
523
524 * updated muon calibration constants for the periods 51-57,
525 58-63 and 67-
526
527 ;star
528
529 * The camera currents are now displayed with the rate of the camera
530 reports instead of the caco reports
531
532 ;ganymed
533
534 * if mc camera files are new enough (>=8) the source position in the
535 camera is now calculated from the stored telscope and shower
536 orientation (Note, that this might not be suitable in all cases
537 depending on the aim of the study. These case still needs
538 implementation)
539
540
541
542== Version 2.1 (2008/06/18) ==
543
544 ;Database
545
546 * introduced average temperature and wind speed from star-files
547
548 * introduced average values from Pyrometer (mainly Cloudiness)
549
550 * introduced the ratio of accepted calibration events in the
551 calibration run
552
553 * introduced the average rates of the different trigger pattern,
554 e.g. the rate of pedestal and calibration events, from the signal-file
555
556 ;general
557
558 * fixed GroupBy options in plot*.C macros
559
560 * only display KVA points (not the Tuorla points) in plotoptical.C
561
562 * all programs now allow to add resources to the ones from the resource
563 file or overwrite them from the command line. This can be done like this
564 ganymed --config=ganymed.rc --rc=Cut1.Param1:0.25 --rc=Cut1.Param3:5.5
565 if something seems to be wrong you can debug what the program is doing
566 using the option --debug-env=3
567
568 * increased the diversity of debug levels. That also means that with -v3
569 you get now less output, i.e. only the output which is important for
570 an analysis. To get more output which helps for debugging try 4, 5 and 6.
571
572 * fixed a problem in the task synchronizing the reading of the reports
573 and the data stream. The effect was that in some circumstances the last
574 events of some trees could have been skipped. Since this is only a
575 very tiny part of the data no severe effect to your analysis results
576 is expected (an exception might be very short, i.e. singel runs,
577 datasets).
578
579 * Dataset file now allow to include the sequence file directly within
580 the dataset file and also allow to exclude single runs from the dataset.
581 (for more details see Class reference of MDataSet)
582
583 * Sequence files now allow for excluding runs from the analysis
584 (for more details see Class reference of MSequence)
585
586 * added code to process the sum-trigger flag
587
588 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support profile histograms
589
590 * the histogram classes MH3 and MHn now support labels at the axis
591
592 * the Random Forest Train-classes (MJTRain*) now store the used datasets
593 in the output file
594
595 * the MFMagicCuts have a new option to allow a linear area cut (for
596 special studies)
597
598 * The liniking of the shared object is now done into a file defined
599 by 'mktemp'. This should be a local file system which accelerates
600 liniking a lot.
601
602 * The code has been prepared for compilation with root 5.18/00d
603
604 * The MHEnergyEst histogram now shows the distribution of
605 (Eest-Emc)/Est and the distributions (Eest-Emc)/Eest vs. Eest
606 and (Eest-Emc)/Emc vs Emc.
607
608 * fixed mars (event display) for merpped raw-data and MC data
609
610 * adapted the synatx of sequence files to allow for the new run/file
611 scheme. For more details see class description of MSequence
612
613 ;showplot
614
615 * Added support for tiff files
616
617 * Added support for csv files (tables containing tab number,
618 name and title)
619
620 * Tabs now can have a title which is displayed in the postscript file
621
622 * When multiple file are written at once (e.g. pngs from a display)
623 it is now possible to use the tab name and or tab number in the
624 file name. For details see showplos's help.
625
626 ;merpp
627
628 * Implemented cc file version 2008-02-20/0
629
630 * Implemented cc file version 2008-05-19/0
631
632 * With new options merpping can be restricted (in addition to the
633 run-number) also by telescope and file number.
634 For details see "merpp --help"
635
636 * Implemented raw data format 11 (the most important change, except
637 from plenty of changes in the format definition, is the addition
638 of the file-number in the header) If nobody makes a mistake this
639 format should have the advantage that it is by definition forward
640 compatible, so old programs will be able to read newer formats.
641
642 * Added Pyrometer information to default output (stored in a new Tree
643 Pyrometer, needs a complete new merpp, i.e. new calibration)
644
645 * Merpping (also update) can now be restricted to one single report.
646 For example:
647 If you want to update an old file with Pyrometer information call
648 merpp --only=Pyrometer --update
649
650 ;callisto
651
652 * in the pedestal processing now at least 50 processed events are
653 required for succeeding.
654
655 * the signal and calib files now contain also the sequence information
656
657 * the two MPedestalCam in the calib file now have proper names
658 to distinguish them from each other (MPedestalCam, MPedestalExtracted)
659
660 * Both pedestal cams now contain the number of events processed
661
662 * In Mars V2.0 the extraction of the fundamental pedestal was broken,
663 i.e. for the extraction of the calibration pulses basically the average
664 over all events of the first slice instead of all slices was used.
665 Since pedestal and calibration constants are continously recalculated
666 this only effected the very first events of every sequence.
667
668 * For the extraction of the position of the maximum sample now the
669 extraction range is set automatically to the extraction window,
670 before the whole accessible range was used.
671
672 * If the number of samples in the events and the number of samples
673 in the run-header disagrees now an error is raised (this can
674 happen in not well simulated Monte Carlo files)
675
676 * In the case of MUX-data pedestal events with the lvl1 trigger flag
677 could survive into the pedestal calculation -- fixed.
678
679 * Tab "TrigPat" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
680 as found in the run-files (normalized with the run length)
681
682 * The selection of events from the trigger pattern has been improved.
683 If the trigger pattern is corrupted events won't pass anymore.
684
685 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
686 Y-files (this is useful for test cases)
687
688 * added a new tab "CalPos" showing the arrival time of extracted
689 interleaved calibration events
690
691 * Using the new --test switch you can now calibrate the calibration
692 file
693
694 ;star
695
696 * the star file now contains also the sequence information
697
698 * Added a new command line option --dev-null to suppress output of
699 I-files (this is useful for test cases)
700
701 * Tab "Rate" added showing the distribution of the trigger pattern
702 (should only be Trig (Lvl1/Lvl2) and Sum (Sum only)) as found in
703 the Y-files (normalized with the run length)
704
705 * The effective on-time calculation doesn't use events with only
706 sum-trigger anymore
707
708 * The data in the MHWeather tab has been reorganized. The never
709 working solar radiation has been removed and the data from
710 the pyrometer (cloudiness, air and sky temperature) is
711 displayed in addition.
712
713 ;ganymed/sponde
714
715 * Now data points are even shown correctly if they have error bars larger
716 than one sigma. Points with null or negative significances are omitted.
717
718 * DrawNicePlot now allows to set a projection range
719
720 * Updates pointing models. One is applied after the implementation
721 of the new LUTS in August, the other one is applied after the
722 next major change of the pointing model in October. Note that
723 these models are preliminary and give wrong results below Zd=65deg
724
725 ;sponde
726
727 * fixed resource files ('''Spectrum''' instead of '''MJSpectrum''')
728
729 * a new option "--force-runtime" is available. In case of very short
730 datasets (for light-curves) which are in the order of a few
731 minutes the calculated effective on-time is not very acurate because
732 it is quantizised in the order of a minute. Therefore you can switch
733 to using the real run-time instead (remakrt: this ignores any
734 dead-time!)
735
736 * a more analytical way is used to "fill" Monte Carlos into regions
737 of impact parameters which have not been simulated because the
738 trigger efficiency is assumed to be 0.
739
740 * estimated sensitivity curves for hi and lo zenith angles are shown
741 scaled to the correct observation time and collection area
742
743 * the Monte Carlo events after cuts are now written to the output file
744 if an output file given
745
746
747
748 *** Version 2.0 (2007/09/03)
749
750 - database: the position used for the pulse pos check was missing
751 in the callisto output and could thus not be filled into the DB.
752 Also the old values seemed not exactly the PulsePos used for
753 teh check.
754
755 - general: Resource file now allow an Include-Resource, i.e. you can
756 read a resource file with default settings, include it in your
757 resource file and overwrite the settings in your file. More than
758 one include file is allowed. Inclusions can be iterative.
759 Include: mydefaults.rc yourdefaults.rc
760 The resources in the first file have higher priority than the
761 second file.
762
763 - general: Now the output files (calib*.root, etc) also contain the
764 resource file (to check it open it in the TBrowser and choose Print()
765 from the context menu)
766
767 - general: Dataset files now allow to overwrite the default path
768 to search for sequence and data files. Note, that the program
769 option and individual resources will overwrite it. For example:
770 SequencePath: /magic/montecarlo/sequences
771 DataPath: /magic/montecarlo/star
772
773 - general: Fixed a problem with variables in MDataPhrase. It seems
774 that only optimdisp (didn't work) was effected.
775
776 - general: Some improvements to the optim and train processing. For
777 example the ststud window now got a proper title.
778
779 - general: The "Status Display: " was removed from the window title
780 within an Eventloop.
781
782 - general: added a new flexible histogram-class (MHn) which can be used
783 for example in testing after optimizations or training to produce
784 user defined histograms.
785
786 - general: The Random Forest now allows attaching an evaluation
787 function which is applied to its output. This allows to train
788 on whatever you like (eg. train on log10(energy), but return
789 energy)
790
791 - general: The Random Forest training of energy (trainenergy.c) and
792 disp (traindisp.C) has been improved by more graphical output to
793 judge the result.
794
795 - general: The training of energy (trainenergy.C) has been improved
796 a lot by training on a different quantity than energy. It gives
797 a result which is highly independant of the source spectrum
798 and shows lower bias than all other options.
799
800 - general: Dataset files are allowed to contain collections of
801 datasets. For more details see the class reference of MDataSet.
802
803 - general: The default WobbleMode in a datset file now (if not
804 overwritten) is "auto", i.e. wobble mode is set if the dataset
805 doesn't contain off-sequences.
806
807 - merpp: Merpp can read file format version 9 now. Please realize
808 that for file format version 9 the extraction range is different
809 and must be set to 0/49 instead of 15/64 in callisto_mux.rc until
810 the first and last 15 slices have been removed from all MUX data.
811
812 - mars: Similar to writing movies you can now select events which
813 should be displayed in your display. Therefore add the following
814 lines to your mars.rc:
815 MFEvtNumber.FileName: ganymed00223552.root
816 MFEvtNumber.Selector: ThetaSquared.fVal<0.04 && DataType.fVal>0.5
817 The input file can be a ganymed-file after (ganymed*.root) or
818 before (ganymed*-summary.root) file. For example to select all events
819 from your on sample after cuts (excluding the ThetaSq cut) use
820 MFEvtNumber.Selector: DataType.fVal>0.5
821 To show all events from your on-sample after quality cuts
822 use the summary file instead.
823
824 - mars: new ways to call mars are implemented. Instead
825 of calling
826 mars filename.root
827 you can now also use
828 mars sequence.txt
829 or
830 mars sequence.txt inputpath
831 or replace sequence.txt by the sequence number if the default
832 sequence file should be used.
833
834 - mars: The default size has been increased
835
836 - mars: There are two new heckboxes which allow to switch off
837 the calculated image parameters
838
839 - callisto: was broken for MCs... fixed.
840
841 - callisto: improved calculation of spline coefficients a lot. This
842 leads to a further improvement of the event rate calibrating MUX
843 data of about 15% (175evt/s instead of 150evt/s)
844
845 - callisto: finally the raw data we read is now real 16bit (with
846 10bit precision) for MUX data and not a stripped 8bit number
847 anymore. Due to scaling of the numbers (without precision loss
848 into an [0-256[ range, the final numbers for pedestal, pedestalrms
849 and extacted signal don't change. However, at all places where
850 raw data is directly accessed (eg. saturation and variation
851 limits in the signal- and pedestal-extraction) the numbers
852 refer still to the data's 16bit range.
853
854 - callisto: The maximum arrival time difference used in the bad
855 pixel treatment is now in units of nanoseconds, which leads to 3.0ns
856 for both, old FADC and MUX-FADC, data.
857
858 - callisto: Be aware that callisto is now calibrating the arrival time
859 in nanoseconds rather than time slices. Also all following tasks
860 have been changed to assume ns units now. If you star data
861 calibrated with an older version it might be necessary to adapt
862 some timimng parameters (Muon Analysis and MFSoftwareTrigger)
863 to obtain optimal results. The plot in the PulsePos tab
864 will now be in ns, too. This might also mean that the Muon
865 analysis in star might not work as perfect as expected as long
866 as old files read in.
867
868 - callisto: The calibration constants of earlier updates got lost
869 somehow. All constants have been updated.
870
871 - star: The PSF is now determined from the profile of the ArcWidth
872 instead of arcwidth/radius. The old way gave to much weight
873 to the bins with low statistics. The reference lines have been
874 updated.
875
876 - star: For speed reasons events suitable for the muon analysis
877 are now also preselected by fConcCOG<0.1 which seems to be a very
878 good preselector for muons.
879
880 - star: is now calculating a new timing parameter the Slope along
881 the major and minor axis of the shower. Therefore a numerical
882 solution of a line-fit is used. To use MHillasExt.fSlopeLong
883 and MHillasExt.fSlopeTrans don't forget to multiply it with
884 the sign stored in MHillasSrc.fCosDeltaAlpha as usual.
885
886 - star: The parameters fInnerSize, fInnerLeakage1 and fInnerLeakage2
887 have been removed from MNewImagePar. They have never been good for
888 anything.
889
890 - star: Implemented a new recursive algorithm which is supposed to be
891 faster. Also implemented new cleaning oiptions, which are:
892 + CleanLevel0:
893 The cleaning level above single core pixels can be kept
894 + KeepIsolatedPixels:
895 Define whether single core pixels should be kept
896 + TimeLevel1:
897 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to single used neighbors
898 + TimeLevel2:
899 The coincidence window in nanoseconds to two used neighbors
900 + PostCleanType:
901 MOde in which a time dependent post cleaning should be applied
902 0: No post cleaning
903 1: Require for each used pixels at least one used neighbor
904 within a time-window of CleanLevel1
905 2: Require for each used pixels at least two used neighbor
906 within a time-window of CleanLevel2
907 3: Require first two and second one used neighbor
908 within a time-window of CleanLevel1 and fCleanLevel2
909 respectively
910 + RecoverIsolatedPixels:
911 - recoveres isolated core pixels if they have a used neighbor
912
913 - mars/star: The new default cleaning is:
914 + CleanLevel1: 6.0
915 + CleanLevel2: 3.0
916 + CleanTime1: 1.75
917 + CleanTime2: 1.75
918 + PostCleanType: 3
919
920 - star/ganymed: The old spark-cuts have been replaced by new ones.
921 These new spark cuts have been cross checked with the sequences
922 84720 (before splitter), 101041 (after splitter) and 223539 (new
923 FADCs). In all cases they seperate pretty well, but of course not
924 perfect. Monte Carlos have suggested to tighten the cuts a little
925 bit further at low sizes. This has been done.
926
927 - ganymed: IMPORTANT - The spark cuts have been changed to match
928 all available data more or less well. This might mean that for
929 YOUR data there are still sparks visible.
930 Whenever you do an analysis you have to make sure that NO sparks
931 survive your cuts!
932
933 - ganymed: The old hadronness and size cuts have gotten new indices
934 (10, 11). The old indices 8 and 9 now mean an additional condition
935 for ghostbusting based on the formula (dist-c[9])*c[8]-slope.
936 If you want to switch off this cut just move the line far away enough,
937 e.g. by setting c[9] to -500. Please update your ganymed.rc files
938 accordingly!
939 The unit of c[9] is deg. It is the dist at which your cut will
940 cross the slope==0. The unit of the slope is ns/deg. So if
941 you readin files calibrated with an older Mars-version you
942 have to adapt the default value for c[9] to the FADCs:
943 - Multiply by two for the MUX FADCs (run number > 200.000)
944 - Multiply by 0.3 for the Siegen FADCs (run number < 200.000)
945 - Multiply by 42 for the meaning of life (run number = 200.000)
946
947 - ganymed: The old Cut0 is now called CutQ and is calculated before
948 the source position is caluclated. If you need a quality cut
949 including source dependant data (be very carefull with this!)
950 you have to use Cut0 instead.
951
952 - ganymed: now properly supports three off regions in wobble mode.
953 It will be the default from now on in ganymed_wobble.rc. To change
954 the number of off-regions use
955 NumOffSourcePositions: 1
956 in your ganymed.rc. Also by default no off-theta cut will be done
957 anymore so that you will get a background level higher than the
958 signal level in your ThetaSq plot for ThetaSq>0.2.
959 Due to this be carefull changing the scaling mode away from
960 "None". You will underestimate your signal if your scale interval
961 is not properly set.
962 (Rem: ThetaSqN is no longer needed)
963
964 - ganymed: is now storing the events of all (on- and off-)
965 source positions even in the case of more than one off-source
966 position. This should allow sponde to work properly and the
967 energy estimation is done correctly in all cases (without any
968 "nearest position" trick)
969
970 - ganymed: From 85340 (19.3.2006) on a real starguider calibration
971 with a real pointing model for the starguider is done, calibrated
972 with more than thousand tpoints taken from this date on.
973
974 - ganymed: was broken for Wobble-MCs... fixed.
975
976 - ganymed: The default cuts (MFMagicCuts) and the disp-parametrization
977 has changed. Note that your old ganymed.rc will be incompatible
978 with the new algorithms! Please check the ganymed.rc files and
979 the class description of MFMagicCuts for more information.
980 It is recommended at the moment to use identical Disp-Parametrizations
981 for on/off- and wobble-mode. If cuts are optimized only
982 the Area-Cut (parameters 2,3,4) and the theta-sq cut (parameter 1)
983 should be optimized. All other values should be kept as they are.
984 If you want to do an anylsis without timing a parameters, you can
985 switch off the timing cuts by seeting parameter 7 to a very small
986 value (eg. -99). To remove the slope parameter from the disp
987 paremtrization set parameter 8 to 0.
988
989 - ganymed: The distribution of observation time versus zenith
990 angle is now shown for off- AND on-data.
991
992 - ganymed: The contents of the source position plot are no longer
993 averaged, thus a lot of (fake) events between the two wobble
994 positions have disappeared.
995
996 - ganymed: There is a new tab "CutT" it contains the VsSize plots
997 with the CutT, whihc is defined in ganymed.rc, applied. It
998 is resonable to use your theta-cut for it, to see if there is
999 something strange (sparks!) in your signal-region.
1000
1001 - ganymed: To choose a dataset from a collection in a dataset file
1002 use the new command line option "--dataset=12345"
1003
1004 - optim, sponde: should now properly support three off-regions.
1005 Just produce your ganymed summary files with three off-regions.
1006 optim and sponde will automatically get all off events from
1007 all off-regions from this file. Please do not forget to
1008 set the scaling in optimwobble.C properly:
1009 fit.SetScaleUser(1./3);
1010 it is not yet read in automatically (will follow soon).
1011 In the case of fixed Scale you can also use
1012 cuts.SetThetaCut(MFMagicCuts::kOn);
1013 no off-cut needed.
1014 Be carefull in case of three off-regions when switching on
1015 scale mode. Make sure that the scale interval is set correctly.
1016
1017 - sponde: sponde.rc and sponde_onoff.rc are now idetical
1018
1019 - sponde: the resouce files have been rewritten with a lot of
1020 comments and a well working parametrization for an energy estimator
1021
1022 - sponde: In the estimated energy versus monte carlo energy plot the
1023 contents where exchanged.... fixed.
1024
1025 - sponde: the so called "accurate"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1026 give any improvement in accuracy, only decreased execution speed.
1027
1028 - sponde: the so called "simple"-mode has been removed. It didn't
1029 give any improvement in simple.
1030
1031 - sponde: the so called "refill"-mode has been removed. It was anyhow
1032 not implemented.
1033
1034 - sponde: now checks whether the theta distribution of your on-data
1035 and the theta-distribution of your Monte Carlo sample (after
1036 weighting) fits. If it doesn't fit properly (eg. the Monte Carlo
1037 sample is incomplete) execution is stopped. Execution can be forced
1038 using the new option --force-theta. Use this option with care!
1039
1040 - sponde: Proper collection areas can now be constructed also from
1041 Monte Carlo samples generated with different maximum impact
1042 parameters. Note that in previous version you neither got
1043 a warning or failure, nor was there any obvious sign that the
1044 collection area was overestimated due to usage of files with
1045 different maximum impact parameters.
1046
1047 - sponde: If MC files with different lower energy limits are used
1048 the primary MC spectrum is artificially completed down to the
1049 lowest energy used at all. WARNING: that this gives correct
1050 collection areas ONLY if none of the events in this region would
1051 survive your cuts at all.
1052
1053 - sponde: the output file now contains more information about
1054 the spectrum (eg. the full 2D collection area histogram).
1055 Note, that this information can only be written to the file
1056 if it is stored automatically via command line argument.
1057 If you only store the status display from within the display
1058 the information is lost.
1059
1060 - sponde: added a new tab "Disp". It shows the residual of the disp
1061 (Disp-Dist) versus several parameters and it is meant to judge the
1062 quality of the disp estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1063 and doesn't depend on any variable. The tab is displayed after
1064 CutQ and Cut0.
1065
1066 - sponde: added a new tab "Energy". It shows the residual of the
1067 energy (lg(estimated energy)-lg(monte carlo energy)) versus
1068 several parameters and it is meant to judge the quality of the
1069 energy estimator. In the ideal case the residual is zero
1070 and doesn't depend on any variable. In reality even a good estimator
1071 can show residuals versus Monte Carlo energy. The tab is displayed
1072 after all cuts.
1073
1074 - sponde: added a new tab "EventDist" showing the unweighted real
1075 absolute number of events of your sample after cuts. This tells
1076 you how many events with this energy you had in your MC files.
1077 The same information you get from the error bars of the weighted
1078 histograms, but this is less intuitive.
1079
1080 - sponde: The spectrum plots now show the crab- and 1553-spectrum
1081 for comparison. It is not meant to show these curves in
1082 publications, they are only for production.
1083
1084 - sponde: The OriginalMC tree with the events produced by corsika
1085 is now processed only once
1086
1087 - sponde: Finally fixed most annoying bug, which has effected the
1088 last bin of the collection area. It was the problem that binnings
1089 of root histograms are from 1 to n (included) but there was a C-like
1090 loop in sponde from 0 to n (excluded). Now the loop also includes
1091 correctly under- and overflow-bins. The worse thing with this is,
1092 that for the events in the highest bin not only the bin-content
1093 was wrong, but also the weights applied to these events, which could
1094 in pricipal effect also other parts of the distribution (eg. due
1095 to energy estimation). Fortunately it effected only a few events
1096 in most cases.
1097
1098
1099
1100 *** Version 1.2 (2007/05/14)
1101
1102 - database: The database now has two new values Unsuitable50 and
1103 Unsuitable01. They express the number of pixels which are
1104 unsuitable for more than 50%, respectively more than 1%, of
1105 all calibrated event. It is a more accurate number than the
1106 previously used numbers, because they only take the first
1107 calibration (ignoring the interleaved calibrations) into account.
1108
1109 - database: The database now has two other new values UnsuitableMax and
1110 DeadMax. They express the maximum number of pixels which were
1111 unsuitable, respectively dead, during the sequence. Because
1112 of high pedestal rms (cars passing) a few events with very high
1113 numbers of unsuitable pixels can happen. Not to suffer from this
1114 effect we don't take the highest 0.1% of the numbers into account.
1115
1116 - general: fixed a bug which caused callisto and star to stop working
1117 properly because the callisto output was currupted
1118
1119 - general: a script called scripts/makemovie has been added which
1120 simplified the process of producing several movies from a single
1121 sequence with different setup.
1122
1123 - callisto: Some more code cleanup. Started to remove old obsolete
1124 code from cvs.
1125
1126 - callisto: The extraction of the pedestal with the extractor was
1127 not random. It seems that extracting at one position is still biased
1128 (for example in the first or last slices we could still suffer from
1129 switching noise) Now it is completely random.
1130
1131 - callisto: In MPedCalcPedRun (which is the pedestal extraction from
1132 pedestal files) individual pixels could be skipped due to high
1133 variations. This was already the case for the pedestal extraction
1134 from the lo-gains since the beginning and properly handled
1135 there, but was introduced in the extraction from the pedestal files
1136 a while ago. To calculate the average value it was still divided
1137 by the number of events procesed not by the number of summands
1138 really summed. This let to a pedestal which was a tiny amount too
1139 small (for a few piels in the order of 0.1%). This led to an slightly
1140 positive offset of the randomly extracted pedestal for a few pixels.
1141 I doubt that this has a big effect on the result, because the effect
1142 on the individual numbers is quite small. Due to this it is suggested
1143 that you rerun your calibration to make sure you are without any
1144 avoidable bias.
1145
1146 - callisto: the ArrTimeRmsLimit is now is a check of the deviation from
1147 the median rms of the absolute arrival time and expressed in significance
1148 levels. This replaces the old meaning of an abolute upper limit. An
1149 absolute upper limit doesn't make much sense, because in our data
1150 all arrival times are shifted at the same time (in fact it might be
1151 a shift of the artificial trigger w.r.t. to the light flash).
1152
1153 - callisto: Added a new tab "BadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1154 of the number of unsuitable pixels over the whole sequence. This
1155 is usefull mainly to judge if an intermediate calibration had
1156 problems.
1157
1158 - callisto: Added a new tab "DeadPixTm" which shows the time evolution
1159 of the number of dead pixels over the whole sequence. Dead pixels
1160 in this context are unmapped pixels, i.e. pixels which could not
1161 be interpolated, and thus are ignored in the further analysis.
1162
1163 - callisto: It is now possible to use the position of the maximum
1164 of the spline as arrival time instead of the leading edge even
1165 when using the integral for the signal. Therefor set the extraction
1166 type to kIntegralRel ("IntegralRelative") and the relative height
1167 ("HeightTm") to -1:
1168 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.ExtractionType: IntegralRelative
1169 MJPedestalC1.ExtractSignal.HeightTm: -1
1170
1171
1172
1173
1174 *** Version 1.1 (2007/04/27)
1175
1176 - general: The new class MGeomCamDwarf contains the camera geometry
1177 for our prefered Dwarf camera and can be used to create general
1178 geometries of roundish or hexagonal cameras.
1179
1180 - mars: The default cleaning is now abolute 8.5/4.0.
1181
1182 - mars: The resource file mars.rc now contains examples for MUX data
1183
1184 - merpp: Implemented file format version 8 (MUX FADC data). The 16-bit
1185 data containing only 10-bit information is still cooked down to
1186 8-bit, by cutting away the lowest 8-bit.
1187
1188 - merpp: When reading raw data the data is now stored in a single
1189 array. The lo-gain array is obsolete. The interface stays the same.
1190
1191 - callisto: To process the new MUX data use the resource file
1192 callisto_mux.rc
1193
1194 - callisto: The -root and -raw options to read merpped raw data have
1195 been removed
1196
1197 - callisto: If the -mc option is given the sequence-name can now be
1198 replaced by the MC sequence number
1199
1200 - callisto: If the sequence file contains "MonteCarlo: Yes" the
1201 -mc option can now be omitted
1202
1203 - callisto: Started further simplification by removing obsolete
1204 dependancies on MCalibIntensity*Cams.
1205
1206 - callisto: removed unsused intensity calibration from MJCalibration
1207 for further simplification
1208
1209 - callisto: for simplification removed references to
1210 MBadPixelsIntensityCam, MCalibrationIntensityQECam,
1211 MCalibrationIntensityRelTimeCam, MCalibrationIntensityTestCam,
1212 MCalibrationIntensityChargeCam, and MCalibrationIntensityBlindCam
1213 (this should at minimum change nothing at all, and at maximum
1214 improve thing if these containers where somewhere not handled
1215 properly)
1216
1217 - callisto: Added the option to write an event movie. Please use
1218 this option with care (huge files) but exessively to understand
1219 our events. For further documentation please refer to the
1220 IACT wiki
1221 (currently at http://www.astro.uni.wuerzburg.de/mediawiki-1.9.0)
1222
1223 - callisto: Improved binning for the pulse position check histogram
1224
1225 - callisto: The code calculating the pulse position checknow takes
1226 the pedestal into account
1227
1228 - callisto: The arrival time is now stored with full precision this
1229 helps to get rid of artefacts in histograms. For the signal this
1230 is not necessray because it is displayed in log-scale anyhow
1231
1232 - callisto: Fixed a problem with internal exclusions. Pixels which
1233 have once been marked as unsuitable didn't get the necessary
1234 histograms filled anymore to be rechecked with each interleaved
1235 calibration.
1236
1237 - callisto: The relative arrival time resolution (the rms of the
1238 relative arrival time offset) is now checked against its
1239 median and the median deviation, instead of the average
1240 plus an absolute offset.
1241
1242 - callisto: The relative arrival time offset is now calculated
1243 w.r.t. its median not w.r.t. to an artificial reference pixel.
1244
1245 - callisto: The relative time calibration now marks pixels with
1246 outlaying offset as unsuitable
1247
1248 - callisto: The interleaved relative time calibration has been switched
1249 on. The advantage is that pixels which are marked as outliers
1250 now can recover. An improvement over time is not expected, because
1251 the relative time calibration seems stable.
1252
1253 - ganymed: If the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes" the "-mc"
1254 option can now be omitted.
1255
1256 - ganymed: If either the dataset file containes "MonteCarlo: Yes"
1257 or the option "-mc" is specified as default the monte carlo datacenter
1258 paths (/magic/montecarlo/...) are used if not overwritten in the
1259 dataset file.
1260
1261 - ganymed: The output files now contain run- and event-number for all
1262 events, accessible as RunNumber.fVal and EvtNumber.fVal
1263
1264 - ganymed: Added a plot showing the source position in the camera also
1265 for wobble mode
1266
1267 - ganymed: In addition to the existing task which can be setup to
1268 be executed after Cut1 a final task called "EstimateEnergy"
1269 has been added, executed before writing the final output
1270 (ganymed00000000.root). The task setup in all three cases
1271 can be choosen individually. (For all three(!) cases you
1272 can for example choose MRanForestCalc. For examples see all
1273 sponde*.rc and all ganymed*rc)
1274
1275 - ganymed: If a container "MEstimatedEnergy" is found in the
1276 parameter list (eg. because it was setup by MEstimateEnergy)
1277 it will be written to the output file.
1278
1279
1280
1281 *** Version 1.0 (2007/02/16)
1282
1283 - database: Website to plot values from the database has been added.
1284
1285 - database: The rate of spark events as found by star is now kept
1286 and the rate after cleaning is now with spark events subtracted
1287
1288 - general: The changes to the interpretation of phrases lead to
1289 a problem with the access of MHMatrix objects (eg. "M[0]")... fixed.
1290
1291 - general: Added example files how you can create your own calendar
1292 (eg. as christmas present) with Mars. Just run
1293 root macros/tutorials/calendar.C
1294
1295 - general: Added a possibility to display grouped data in the plotdb.C
1296 macro (and similar macros). This allows to plot hourly, nightly,
1297 weekly, monthly and yearly averages.
1298 For more details see the plotall function of the macro
1299
1300 - general: fixed the error display of the camera display. It showed
1301 wrong results.
1302
1303 - general: fixed a memory leak when reading many MStatusDisplays
1304
1305 - general: added a macro (macros/tutorials/mirrordelay.C) plotting the delay
1306 between a spherical and a parabolic mirror
1307
1308 - callisto: We have a new pulse position check which takes the properties
1309 of the extractor automatically into account. So no need to set
1310 ExtractWinLeft/Right anymore. Again a check for pulses too much to the
1311 left is done. If possible the lo-gain extraction start and hi-gain
1312 extraction end is changed accordingly. If no proper extraction range
1313 can be set (hi-gain too much to the left) an error is raised.
1314
1315 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected
1316
1317 - callisto: Redone the signal extraction this includes:
1318 + Unified the algorithms to extract the pedestal for all pedestal
1319 extractions done
1320 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain into one array
1321 + Unification of hi- and lo-gain extraction for Spline and
1322 Digital Filter (means now exactly the same algorithm is used,
1323 not a copy-and-pasted one)
1324 + Store pedestal subtracted data in a common place
1325 + Improved extraction algorithms. If the algorithms search a
1326 maximum but don't find one they don't return the maximum anymore
1327 + Improved the extraction such that a information for signal
1328 and time which is consistent is returned
1329 + replaced the numerical spline with a (not slower) analytical
1330 solution
1331 + Lowered the saturation limit from 250 to 245 to make sure that
1332 we are far away in all pixels from problems with the clock-noise
1333 + The start of the lo-gain extraction is calculated from the hi-gain
1334 arrival time. In case of saturation an estimation is used.
1335 + the hi-gain window was extended to slice 16. This allows extraction
1336 of very late pulses in single pixels or of huge hadron showers.
1337 + Now uses the lo-gain extraction range for pedestal extraction,
1338 not the hi-gain range in the lo-gain
1339
1340 - callisto: New hi-/lo-gain calibration constants have been produced
1341 for all periods from the statistic of the whole period. They are
1342 now used automatically depending on the periods. The old constants
1343 where deviation in avarega about 2%-3%. The constants are very
1344 stable from period to period (<<1%) except for exchanged channels.
1345 In a few cases the constants used so far were off by 1%-2% (maybe
1346 temperature effects?)
1347
1348 - callisto: To gain obsolete space we do not write the
1349 MPedestalFundamental anymore. Also calibration and bad pixel
1350 treatment is not done for it anymore because it has never been used.
1351
1352 - callisto: Fixed a bug in the seuqence handling which caused the
1353 light condition to be ignored
1354
1355 - star: Added two new tabs "Sparkless" and "Sparks" these tabs show
1356 basically the same as "Cleaned" but the distribution devided into
1357 the events fullfilling a spark cut or being rejected by it.
1358 This cut can be changed from star.rc (see example inside) by
1359 the "SparkCut" directive
1360
1361 - star: Star displays now the average individual pixel-rate (IPR) versus
1362 time and the average discriminator threshold (DT) of all pixels.
1363
1364 - optim: fixed a problem with the optim-macros which was due to a bug
1365 in the new phrase parsing
1366
1367 - ganymed: To get a nice FalseSource plot (instead of the all-information
1368 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1369 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1370 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1371 the other options)
1372 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1373
1374 - ganymed/optim/train: The cut program, trainings- and optimization
1375 macros could run with less files found than expected from the
1376 sequence-files. No the execution is stopped in this case.
1377
1378 - ganymed: now stores the dataset in the output file with all information
1379 contained (as sequence number, sequence path, data path) so that the
1380 used dataset file can be recreated complete from the output
1381
1382 - sponde: now also allows the uasge of random forest
1383
1384 - sponde: added a plot showing the cut efficiency
1385
1386 - sponde: Using root versions < 5.13/04 still resulted in wrong binomial
1387 errors (eg. effecting the collection area) because the errors of the
1388 two histograms were swapped in the calculation, which makes a difference
1389 in the case the histograms contains weighted events. Aditionally the
1390 totalarea was incorrectly taken into account, which results in too small
1391 errors, which makes a difference at low statistics were the errors
1392 or the collection area dominate.
1393
1394
1395
1396 *** Version 0.10.3 (2006/10/23)
1397
1398 - database: Implemented ObservationMode flag in websites.
1399
1400 - database: For sequences there is now also the stoptime available on the
1401 websites.
1402
1403 - database: Removed ManuallyChanged flag from sequence-info websites,
1404 as it is not needed anymore with the new sequence building algorithm.
1405
1406 - general: MRolke.[cc,h]: Modification of TRolke from root_v5.12.00b.
1407 Class for calculation of confidence intervals (upper limits).
1408 Use model 3 or 4 for upper limit calculation for MAGIC observations.
1409 Please read the class instruction of TRolke for more information.
1410
1411 - general: The programs now return 0xfe if the requested resource file
1412 doesn't exist.
1413
1414 - general: Errors comming from root itself are now not output to
1415 stderr anymore but to our default (colored) log-stream.
1416
1417 - general: Changed the interface to TFormula such that now everything
1418 is parsed by TFormula, which should allow to use phrases even
1419 without paranthesis correctly parsed.
1420
1421 - callisto: replaced the AdHoc number of effective integration slices
1422 in the digital filter by an average of the correct number, averaged
1423 over all possible set of weights. This also gives correct numbers
1424 for the lo-gains which were totally wrong before.
1425
1426 - callisto: drastically reduced memory consumption by not storing
1427 all intermediate calibration results in memory anymore (we might
1428 write them into a file in the future)
1429
1430 - ganymed: To get a nice Theta-Sq plot (instead of the all-information
1431 debug plot displayed as a standard plot) use the context menu
1432 somewhere between the two upper plots, click on "DrawNicePlot"
1433 and enjoy the result. (It is the same context menu which contains
1434 the "DrawAll" option)
1435 PLEASE ALWAYS USE THIS PLOT FOR ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION!
1436
1437
1438
1439 *** Version 0.10.2 (2006/10/15)
1440
1441 - general: changed the building of the sequence files such, that
1442 the source-/project name in case of wobble-sources is not the
1443 source/project of the first data run anymore but the new generalized
1444 wobble source/project
1445
1446 - general: Added some functions to MAstro to calculate sun and
1447 moon properties
1448
1449 - general: Added two new macros (starvisday.C and starvisyear.C)
1450 which allow to plot the visibility of several stars in one day
1451 or of one star along one year
1452
1453
1454
1455 *** Version 0.10.1 (2006/10/11)
1456
1457 - general: HTML logging output was distorted... fixed.
1458
1459 - general: Changed the writing of the sequencefiles such that only
1460 as many pedestal files as giving at least 1000 pedestal events which
1461 are nearby the first calibration run are used as pedestal runs
1462
1463 - sponde: In the calculation of the collection area(s) and the
1464 distribution for MOnte Carlo and estimated energy the error
1465 calculation was wrong because root didn't take the errors
1466 properly into account... fixed.
1467
1468
1469
1470 *** Version 0.10 (2006/10/10)
1471
1472 - general: all executables now check consistency of the root version
1473 installed with the root version used for compilation. The return
1474 code in this case is 255.
1475
1476 - general: The algorithm to build seqeunces has been redesigned
1477 completly. It is now more flexible in terms of a resource file
1478 resources/sequences.rc which can be used to partly overwrite
1479 the default algorithm and defined the important part of the
1480 algorithm. It also takes correctly into account several ways
1481 of taking wobble-data. Currently the new algorithm doesn't take
1482 the number of pedestal events anymore into account (so a sequence
1483 could have much less than 1000 pedestal events and data runs are
1484 no-more used instead)
1485
1486 - general: a lot of small changes to make the code compatible with
1487 root 5.12/00 and gcc 4.1
1488
1489 - general: Fixed some warnings thrown if more warnings are switched
1490 on in the compiler
1491
1492 - general: Added a function to MMath which returns the Median of
1493 the distribution abs(y[i]-median) but at 68:32 division instead
1494 of 50:50, which is somehow the median counterpart of the rms.
1495
1496 - general: MAstroCatalog allows now to read calatog files (as bsc5)
1497 even if they are compressed with gzip (recommended compression
1498 is with "-1")
1499
1500 - showplot:
1501 + batch mode creation of image files now works with root 5.12/00
1502 + added support for writing bmp (though it never produces
1503 bmp which can be read by programs like xv or gimp)
1504 + added support for xml
1505 + added new option to start the display with a different size, by
1506 --display-width=nnn or --display-height=nnn
1507 + added options to define the canvas size when the display is started
1508 --canvas-width=nnn or --canvas-height=nnn
1509 the option can also be used for batch-mode conversion
1510 + added an option which automatically fits the display size to the
1511 desktop-size: --auto-size
1512
1513 - merpp: didn't recognize files with the extension .raw.gz - fixed.
1514
1515 - merpp: allow the reports to have 1000ms due to a bug in the camera
1516 program.
1517
1518 - callisto: New swapped pixels have been found and corrected. For
1519 details see MRawRunHeader::FixAssignment()
1520
1521 - callisto: Callisto now raises an error if one of the input files could
1522 not be opened.
1523
1524 - callisto: In some rare cases it could happen that in the signal
1525 extraction of the digital filter the extractor returned nonsense
1526 results due a wrong initializion of a variable (this happens in
1527 cases in which the extracted signal is exactly zero or the
1528 digital filter couldn't slide because of a too small extraction
1529 window, which could happen in the lo-gain extraction)
1530
1531 - callisto: The lo-gains have been marked as valid in some cases
1532 when they got not extracted at all (deltsumlo=deltatimelo=0) because
1533 the allowed extraction range (fLoGainLast-fLoGainFirst) was
1534 smaller than the number of slices (fLoGainWindowSize) needed
1535 by the lo-gain extractor
1536
1537 - callisto: Updated absolute calibration constants (muon calibration)
1538
1539 - callisto: fixed a bug which caused the hi-gain saturation not
1540 to be handled properly in the spline (the position of the
1541 saturation was calculated incorrectly)
1542
1543 - callisto: fixed a bug which gave weird results if hi- _and_
1544 lo-gain could not be extracted properly. In some cases hi-
1545 and lo-gain have not been extracted at all and the random result
1546 got calibrated. In other cases the hi-gain was saturating and the
1547 lo-gain has not been extracted. For this a completly arbitraty
1548 scale factor was applied to the result from extracting the
1549 charge of the saturating hi-gain.
1550
1551 - callisto: improves handling of extracted signal if lo- and/or
1552 hi-gain could not be extracted properly. If no appropriate
1553 calibration of either the signal or the arrival time is possible
1554 the pixel is now markes as unsuitable instead of estimated.
1555
1556 - callisto: Fixed a problem in the spline extraction which gave
1557 weird results if the signal was extracted from the first (and
1558 highest) slice (as a workaround extraction from the first
1559 slice has been forbidden)
1560
1561 - callisto: Fixed a bug regarding the use of the QE which doesn't
1562 effect the result because the default is used anyhow.
1563 (The bug was there since 14/07/2005)
1564
1565 - callisto: Changed the default for fgLoGainStartShift to -2.4
1566
1567 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused all hi-/lo-gain calibration
1568 factors to be always 10 for all pixels as soon as the first
1569 calibration update has happend.
1570
1571 - callisto: Fixed the hi-/lo-gain offset for the Digital Filter. It
1572 was off by more than one slice (which gives wrong values for
1573 pixels which have saturated the hi-gain) This was a problem
1574 mainly for timing studies, not so much for the automatic standard
1575 analysis. Also the values for the Spline have been changed slightly:
1576 + Digital Filter from 1.70 to 0.95
1577 + Spline from 1.39 to 1.30
1578 The numbers were sorted out by an extensive test in the
1579 test-database.
1580
1581 - callisto: Removed the tab showing the average calibrated arrival
1582 time. It never gave useful information.
1583
1584 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoCal" which shows the ratio between hi- and
1585 lo-gain pulse for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain have saturated
1586 and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above the
1587 LoGainSwitch.
1588
1589 - callisto: Now tab "HiLoOff" which shows the offset between hi- and
1590 lo-gain pulse position (after application of LoGainOffset, which
1591 means in the ideal case it is 0) for data pulses if hi- and lo-gain
1592 have saturated and both were extracted because the hi-gain was above
1593 the LoGainSwitch.
1594
1595 - callisto: After extensive tests a new threshold level for determination
1596 of the pulse position has been found at 50phe. This is due to the
1597 fact that for lower pulses the arrival time changes its average
1598 behaviour dramatically. It tends to the average of the extraction
1599 range and starts sticking to non-floating point numbers (5, 6, 7, ...)
1600
1601 - callisto: Added two more plots to the calibration part. The average
1602 extracted signal and the average extracted arrival time as
1603 extracted by the signal extractor (This can help debugging problems
1604 because it doesn't involve a fit)
1605
1606 - star: changed the fit for the effective on time such that initial
1607 values are calculated automatically now instead of using build
1608 in values. This makes the fit more indepedant of the underlaying
1609 rates. With a test of ~350 sequences in the test database it could
1610 be shown that the new fit gives the same result +/-1sek.
1611 The highest deviation was +5s the lowest -10s. You can now control
1612 the bahaviour with two resource values:
1613 MHEffectiveOnTime.FistBin: 3
1614 MHEffectiveOnTime.NumEvents: 12000
1615 Use FirstBin=1 and NumEvents=120 to fit the effective on time
1616 from the resulting gamma candidates
1617
1618 - star: The Center histogram in MHHillas is now by default displayed
1619 with the colz draw-option
1620
1621 - ganymed: now produces valid error codes if failed
1622
1623 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts now supports a hadronness cut. Switch it on
1624 with the option "hadronness" instead of "area" or "both" if
1625 you want to use both cuts. The hadronness cut includes a fixed
1626 cut in hadronness (index 8) and a fixed cut in size (index 9).
1627
1628 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts: fixed abug introduced 2005/7/14 which caused
1629 the M3Long of the anti source to be not properly evaluated
1630 (actually is was evaluated as a unique random number) in case
1631 of optimization with anti-theta cut switched on. This might have
1632 lead to improper, but not necessarily wrong, optimization results.
1633
1634 - ganymed: ganymed_onoff.rc, ganymed_wobble.rc - updated with comments
1635 how to use random forest
1636
1637 - ganymed: use the same spark cuts as in ganymed_wobble.rc as in
1638 ganymed_onoff.rc. Seems to be unintentional that they were different.
1639
1640 - sponde: Since the introduction of the possibility to define a
1641 normalization energy instead of using the integral the default
1642 was not using the integral anymore but a normalization energy of
1643 1GeV. It is now the integral again.
1644
1645 - sponde: Fixed a problem in the weighting which did not allow
1646 a MC slope of -1.
1647
1648
1649
1650 *** Version 0.9.6 (2006/05/24)
1651
1652 - general: changed the binning of the azimuthal profile of the camera
1653 such that it is aligned with the 60deg boundaries.
1654
1655 - merpp: better handling of problems with the TH, TD part of the
1656 CC-REPORT for files older than 200507190 and 200412210
1657 respectively
1658
1659 - merpp: improved handling of RECEIVERS-COM-ERROR in CC-REPORT
1660
1661 - merpp: implementd latest changes in starguider reports (sinc 9th May)
1662
1663 - callisto: if an arrival time is extracted outside the fadc range is
1664 was set to the boundary before. Now a random number is assigned
1665 instead to avoid unfortunate coincidences of arrival times just
1666 by this arbitrary value.
1667
1668 - callisto: added a new option to callisto.rc which allows
1669 to set the maximum arrival time difference allowed for the
1670 badpixel algorithm to determin whether a pixels belongs to a shower:
1671 MJCalibrateSignal.MBadPixelsTreat.MaxArrivalTimeDiff: 0.9
1672
1673 - callisto: changed the old value (0.5) for MaxArrivalTimeDiff
1674 to 0.9 as suggested by Stefan due to a recent study on the fraction
1675 of pixels surviving the image cleaning
1676
1677 - callisto: switched off error in case of "pulse is too much to the left"
1678
1679 - callisto: The extraction window is not adapted anymore. This means that
1680 the pulse is extracted from the full range. The draw-back is that the
1681 background (pedestal) will become slightly higher. Switching on/off
1682 the PulsePosCheck in the callisto.rc only effects filling the
1683 histograms.
1684 WARNING: If the pulse is too much to the left data is calibrated!
1685 Check the PulsePosCheck-PulsePosition AND the Inhomogeneity parameter
1686 in the database to make sure that your data is valid!
1687
1688 - star: Show also the number of stars correlated correctly by the
1689 starguider
1690
1691 - ganymed: implemented a new class (MHThetaSqN) which allows to use more
1692 than one off-source region in wobble-mode. To use it add the following to
1693 your ganymed_wobble.rc:
1694 + MJCut.NameHist: MHThetaSqN (switch the new feature on)
1695 + MHThetaSqN.NumOffSourcePos: 3 (define number of off-regions)
1696 + MHThetaSqN.DoOffCut: Yes,No (switch on/off the off-cut)
1697 + Cut1.ThetaCut: None
1698 + MHThetaSqN.SignificanceCutLevel: 2.0 (increase off-cut by 2.0/1.7)
1699
1700 - ganymed: in the case the latest report is older than a default (currently
1701 one minute) and the current report will be skip the starguider
1702 correction and calibration will be reset. The maximum age can be
1703 setup from ganymed.rc by (minutes):
1704 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAge: 1.5
1705
1706 - ganymed: A first implementation showing all size-bins for the theta-sq
1707 resp. alpha-plots in a single tab automatically
1708
1709
1710
1711 *** Version 0.9.5.1 (2006/05/05)
1712
1713 - general: Added a new option "zdiff" to the Makefile which runs
1714 "cvs diff" as "make diff" would do, but with compression
1715
1716 - general: accelerated MTFillMatrix (used for eample in all training
1717 and optimization macros) by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1718 eventloop the first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1719
1720 - general: Added a missing feature in the MFilterList class which
1721 prevented MFEnergySlope from working correctly in trainenergy.C
1722
1723 - general: Accelerated the random forest training and usage a bit
1724
1725 - merpp: Adapted to new raw data file format version 6
1726
1727 - merpp: fixed a problem with reading the starguider reports
1728 after 6.3.2006
1729
1730 - callisto: At some times six pixels had to be exchanged manually in the
1731 data. If the pixels to be swaped are both not found, an error was raised
1732 and calibration was stopped. Now it is assumed they are intentially not
1733 mapped and the Error has been changed to a Warning.
1734
1735 - star: Added new image cleaning based on the arrival time of the shower.
1736 The new cleaning can be accessed using the parameter "Time" instead of
1737 the the old one (like "Absolute) in the star.rc-file.
1738 Recommended parameters:
1739 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel1: 8.2
1740 + MImgCleanStd.CleanLevel2: 5
1741 + MImgCleanStd.CleanRings: 2
1742 + MImgCleanStd.KeepSinglePixels: No
1743
1744 - star: Simplified the calculation of the effective on time. By letting
1745 the fit start in the third bin the result should become more stable.
1746 The fit quality is now ignored for the theta-plot which is not used
1747 in the analysis later. Still better pre-cut which, for example,
1748 remove events triggered by car-light (rate changing on a short
1749 time-scale) are missing.
1750
1751 - macros: optimonoff.C, optimwobble.C: implemented a new strategy
1752 for optimization (kWeakSource) which is suggested by the Berlin
1753 people for weak sources.
1754
1755 - macros: plotdb.C:
1756 + if no dataset and no time-interval is given only sequences with
1757 an effective on-time above five minutes are plotted anymore
1758 + added a new tab "RelTime" displaying the relative on-time
1759 (effective on-time divided by the observation time)
1760
1761 - macros: optim*.C: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop
1762 the optimization became a lot faster
1763
1764 - ganymed: In the second loop the MHNewImagePar histograms disapeared.
1765 To display them just delete the pads displayed on top.
1766
1767 - ganymed: fixed a bug which could cause strange behaviour in wobble
1768 mode if no starguider information was available due to an incorrect
1769 initialization of the starguider calibration
1770
1771 - ganymed: The scale region in the False Source Plot (MHDisp) can now
1772 be changed from within the plot. It can also be setup from the
1773 resource file using:
1774 + MHDisp.fScaleMin: 0.325
1775 + MHDisp.fScaleMax: 0.475
1776
1777 - ganymed, showplot: Fixed a problem with the fit to the off-data
1778 (HistOff) which could cause a time lag or an inifinite loop.
1779 The bug did not effect the results at all.
1780
1781 - sponde: Added a new tab showing the effective collection area after
1782 trigger (including the software trigger)
1783
1784 - sponde: MMcSpectrumWeight has a new option which allows to define
1785 the scaling factor not by the integral of the events but at
1786 a defined energy:
1787 e.g. MMcSpectrumWeight.NormEnergy: 200
1788
1789 - MTFillMatrix, sponde: by skipping some obsolete calles in the
1790 eventloops the loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1791
1792
1793
1794 *** Version 0.9.5 (2006/03/13)
1795
1796 - macros: fixed a typo optimwoble.C (SetThetaCut instead SetAlphaCut)
1797 and added the standard Disp-parametrization
1798
1799 - macros: added a new macro datacenter/macros/plotstat.C allowing
1800 to plot statistics about the data processing
1801
1802 - macros: added a new macro to plot the muon correction coefficients
1803 versus period (macros/plot/mucal.C)
1804
1805 - showplot: path inflation for ganymed files was broken
1806
1807 - callisto: Fixed an important bug. When the number of saturating pixels
1808 were calculated the bad pixel information already available from the
1809 calibration was ignored. This yields wrong values in case pixels
1810 are broken and saturate all the time or randomly.
1811
1812 - callisto: Updated Muon calibration constants. Spline data now also uses
1813 different values for different periods
1814
1815 - star: The time-evolution shown in the effective on-time plot now displays
1816 the axis range (if there are no holes it should be similar to the
1817 effective on-time)
1818
1819 - star: Added two new image parameters:
1820 + MNewImagePar.fConcCOG: The ratio of the equivalent signals of
1821 the three pixels next to the center of gravity and the size
1822 + MNewImagePar.fConcCore: The ratio of the signals of all
1823 pixels inside or touching the ellipse and the size
1824
1825 - ganymed: now stops in requested source isn't found in catalog file
1826
1827 - ganymed: Many improvements to the phi-plot in wobble mode:
1828 + with a template the ideal background is displayed
1829 + a possible camera inhomogeneity is taken into account
1830 + the anti theta cut is better supported
1831 + the phi cut is automatically calculated from the theta cut
1832 See the examples in ganymed_wobble.rc for more details.
1833
1834 - ganymed: fixed plot for E^2*dN/dE. The spectrum was multiplied with two
1835 times the bin-width instead of the absolute energy
1836
1837 - ganymed: New cuts for on/off and wobble mode
1838
1839 - ganymed: The smearing of the False Source plot has been increased
1840 to 0.06
1841
1842 - ganymed: The starguider calibration can now be changed from the
1843 resource file.
1844 See the examples in ganymed*.rc for more details.
1845
1846 - ganymed: added a new option for on-/off-observations
1847 MJCut.RandomSourcePosition
1848 If switched on the distribution of observation time of the source
1849 position in the camera is calculated from the on-data and randomly
1850 applied with this distrbution to the off-data.
1851
1852 - ganymed: by skipping some obsolete calles in the eventloop the
1853 first and second loop could be accelerated by ~20%
1854
1855 - ganymed: The default in ganymed_onoff.rc is now to determin the source
1856 position in the off-data randomly according to its distribution in the
1857 on-data.
1858
1859
1860
1861 *** Version 0.9.4.3 (2006/02/13)
1862
1863 - general: Fixed a bug in most of the programs which prevented the
1864 compile date in the startup message to be displayed
1865
1866 - general: Simplified program calls. The following abbreviations
1867 are now possible:
1868 showlog callisto 55599
1869 showplot signal 55599
1870 star 55599
1871 callisto 55999
1872 ganymed 2
1873 In this cases the corrsponding root-, log-, sequence- or dataset-
1874 filename is automatically compiled using the default datacenter
1875 paths ("/magic/*")
1876
1877 - general: Fixed a long outstanding bug which made axis tick marks
1878 disappear if MDataFormula was used (eg. abs(x))
1879
1880 - general: Updated MMath with new functions to calculate the results of
1881 a exponential, logarithmic and powerlaw fits analytically.
1882
1883 - general: Updated some macros with comments:
1884 + macros/optim/optimdisp.C
1885 + macros/optim/optimenergy.C
1886 + macros/optim/optimwobble.C:
1887
1888 - general: MTFillMatrix (the class to fill one or two MHMatrix from
1889 files) now allows adding a pre-cut like in the optimization. E.g. this
1890 is useful to perform g/h-separation cuts before training the random
1891 forest.
1892
1893 - general: Between the rund 53300 and 68754 the pixels 553-558 were not
1894 correctly assigned in the raw data assignement table. A fix to correct
1895 the assignment tabel have been implemented.
1896
1897 - general: MAstroCatalog now allows rotating of the sky-grid and stars
1898 by 90, 180 and 270 deg.
1899
1900 - general: the macro plotdb.C now allows to highlight sequences belonging
1901 to a datset. For more details see the descritions in the macro.
1902
1903 - StatusDisplay: Fixed the algorithm to calculate the size ratio
1904 of the display, it gave wrong results espacially for big sizes.
1905 Now the embedded canvas should always have a ratio width/height=3/2.
1906 The "Size" options have been updated with values fitting the 3/2
1907 size ratio.
1908
1909 - RanForest:
1910 + Updated the random forest classes to support also the
1911 regression method implemented by Thomas H.
1912 + added new tutorial macro how to train the random forest
1913 for energy estimation (macros/optim/rfenergyest.C)
1914 + new classes to train the random forest (still in development)
1915 mjtrain/MJTrainEnergy, mjtrain/MJTrainDisp, mjtrain/MJTrainSeparation
1916 + new tutorial macros for random forest training in macros/train
1917 trainenergy.C, traindisp.C, trainseparation.C
1918
1919 - mars: now allows to setup a cut in the resource file mars.rc to choose
1920 the events to be displayed, eg:
1921 Cut.Condition: {0} && {1}
1922 Cut.0: MHillas.fSize>100
1923 Cut.1: MHillas.fSize<900
1924
1925 - merpp: Made aware of the new .rep format 200510250. This includes
1926 interpretation of the Receiver Board Temperatures (MCameraRecTemp),
1927 the discriminator thresholds (MCameraTD) and the disciminator
1928 delays (MCameraTD). All of them come with the CC report and are therefor
1929 written to the CC tree.
1930
1931 - callisto: fixed a bug in the calculation of the arrival times in
1932 the Digital Filter. They were all shifted by the same amount
1933 fHiGainFirst. This caused an offset in the order of the position of
1934 the left border of the extraction window in the times calculated
1935 from high-gain and from low-gain. The bug effected only the absolute
1936 arrival times. The bug was there since 30.1.2005.
1937
1938 - callisto: Changed the ExtractionWindow for the pulse position check
1939 such that the camera inhomogeneity becomes as less as possible and
1940 comparable to the pulso position check switched off. More details
1941 on the study will be given at our result web-page.
1942
1943 - ganymed: ganymed.rc, ganymed_onoff.rc:
1944 changed to new cuts trained with 1ES1218 and Crab-data
1945 for maximum sigma*log10(excess)
1946
1947 - ganymed: In addition to the Hadronness calculator (CalcHadronness)
1948 a new option was implemented to estimate Disp (CalcDisp)
1949
1950 - ganymed: Implemented two new options which allow
1951 to overwrite the default path to search for the sequence files
1952 --ins=/magic/sequences
1953 and where to search for the image data
1954 --ind=/magic/data/star
1955
1956 - ganymed: MSrcPosCorrect now allows overwriting of the misfocussing
1957 dx/dy from the resource file by
1958 MSrcPosCorrect.Dx
1959 MSrcPosCorrect.Dy
1960
1961 - ganymed: fixed reading the source catalog. Only as many chars
1962 as the requested source name had were compared (If a source
1963 "1ES1218" and "1ES1218+304" were in the catalog and "1ES1218+304"
1964 were requested it could happen that the coordinates of
1965 "1ES1218" were read) The source coordinates are now printed
1966 in addition to its name to the logging output.
1967
1968 - ganymed: changed the background fit in the case of a ThetaSq function
1969 from a polynomial to a exponential, this should give a big improvement
1970 for on-only analysis'
1971
1972 - ganymed/sponde: Calculation of the error of single size-/energy-
1973 bins now uses Li/Ma (5) instead of LiMa (17)
1974
1975 - sponde: Added a plot E^2*dN/dE
1976
1977 - sponde: The energy estimator plot should now show values like
1978 they are commonly used.
1979
1980 - sponde: Now MMcSpectrumWeight also excepts formulas with two X
1981 (a powerlaw with cutoff didn't work before)
1982
1983
1984
1985 *** Version 0.9.4.2 (2005/10/01)
1986
1987 - general: added new tutorial macro macros/tutorials/threshold.C:
1988 how to calculate the threshold
1989
1990 - general: added a new game. Start it from the interpreter with
1991 MagicJam j; (other games are: MineSweeper, MagicSnake, MagicDomino
1992 and MagicReversi)
1993
1994 - general: neighbor pixels in MGeoms are now sorted clockwise
1995
1996 - merpp: made aware of new format 20050829-0
1997
1998 - callisto: New scale factors from muon analysis, stored in new
1999 resource file resources/calibration.rc
2000
2001 - callisto: MBadPixelsCalc now raises an error instead of simply stopping
2002 the eventloop if something went wrong. This is necessary for the
2003 automatic processing
2004
2005 - callisto: Implemented a new treatment for the time information
2006 developed by S.Ruegamer, this should give much better response than
2007 the old very primitive algorithm. This is especially important
2008 for bad pixels due to bright stars as Ceta-Tauri (btw: the old
2009 treatment was buggy! As neighbor pixels to interpolate the
2010 arrival times always the pixels 0 to 5 were taken)
2011
2012 - callisto: In addition to the new treatment of arrival times the
2013 decision of the treatment whether a pixel contains shower
2014 information or not is used to improve the signal interpolation
2015 further. Previously interpolated pixels showed a non-zero signal
2016 do the peak searching signal extractors. Having a signal pixel
2017 beside raised the signal above the cleaning level. Thus the
2018 pixel survived cleaning to often but with a too low mean signal.
2019 By replacing empty pixels with a gaus (mean and rms from the
2020 corresponding Area entries in MPedPhotCam) this effect can
2021 be supressed.
2022
2023 - callisto: The status "unmapped" (for pixel which cannot be interpolated)
2024 got lost when the events were stored by the calibration... fixed.
2025 (This was no problem for normal image cleaning because the pixel
2026 content was artificially set to 0 not surviving standard cleaning
2027 algorithm)
2028
2029 - callisto: Fixed a bug which caused the random and peak-search pedestal
2030 extracted with an extractor to be exchanged for the first (roughly)
2031 500 events (*Extractor and *ExtractorRndm).
2032 (They were simply exchanged in callisto.cc) This bug might have been
2033 introduced in Mars 0.9.4 when the order of calculation of the two
2034 types of pedestal in callisto got exchanged. The bug only effects
2035 the first seconds of data of each sequence.
2036
2037 - star: Taking the arrival time of Muons into account the calculation
2038 of the parameters could be made independant of the noise
2039 (pedestal rms). The dependance was due to the bias of the peak search
2040 extractor. Now only a ZA dependamcy is left which is not yet fully
2041 understood.
2042
2043 - ganymed: The sequences were still not sorted correctly in any case,
2044 because they were sorted by the full qualified path name. Now they
2045 are sorted by their sequence number.
2046
2047 - ganymed: new values for the spark-event-cut
2048
2049 - sponde: required missing MEnergyEst from ganymed.root... fixed.
2050
2051
2052
2053 *** Version 0.9.4.1 (2005/08/18)
2054
2055 - callisto: fixed some problems with the calibration in case of
2056 inteleaved events. Therefor the final and some intermediate
2057 fits are skipped which would take place on partly filled #
2058 histograms and gave wrong results or failed completely.
2059
2060 - callisto: If the intermediate finalization of the histograms
2061 calculating the mean charge of the calibration signal fails
2062 it is counted now and printed in PostProcess of MCalibCalcFromPast.
2063
2064 - ganymed: Fixed some bugs which caused problems in On-only mode.
2065 Still the false source plot doesn't give reasonable results.
2066
2067
2068
2069 *** Version 0.9.4 (2005/08/05)
2070
2071 - general: Fixed the ZA binning. It did not correctly fit the
2072 MC binning
2073
2074 - general: Added a class to correct for the missfocussing in
2075 April (MSrcPosCorrect)
2076
2077 - general: Random Forest energy estimator should now work properly
2078
2079 - general: MHCamera now displays the profiles in deg instead of mm
2080
2081 - general: MH::SetPalette offers a lot of new palettes
2082
2083 - general: MHillas - the case of CorrXY==0 is now handled properly
2084
2085 - general: implemented the possibility to change the line and
2086 marker style of a sky-grid drawn by MAstroCatalog
2087
2088 - general: Runs in sequences and datasets are now automatically
2089 ordered (it is assumed that the order of their filenames correctly
2090 represents the order of observations) to ensure correct reading
2091 of the subsystem data
2092
2093 - general: Runs cannot be added to a sequence twice anymore. Also
2094 Sequences cannot be added twice anymore to a dataset.
2095
2096 - general: fixed a bug in MAstro::Deg2Hms reported by Abelardo.
2097 It gave wrong results by 1./2pi
2098
2099 - showplot: got a new option to start a root interpreter, too
2100
2101 - mars: now displays a rough estimate of Disp and the third moment
2102
2103 - mars: now displays the event time MTime if available
2104
2105 - mars: show muon parameters graphically
2106
2107 - mars: now the file to open can be given as commandline
2108 argument
2109
2110 - merpp: Added support for new arehucas version >= 200507190
2111 implementing values for three temperature sensors in the
2112 counting house (MCameraAUX) and the name of the HV settings file
2113 (MCameraHV).
2114
2115 - merrp: Also fixed some problems with wrong versions numbers stated
2116 by arehucas and implemented some fixed for old versions (<200407070)
2117
2118 - callisto: MCalibrationHiLoCam can now be printed from its context
2119 menu, eg in the TBrowser
2120
2121 - callisto: fixed logain offset (fgOffsetLoGain) from 1.7 to
2122 - 1.39 (MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline)
2123 - 1.40 (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2124 This is important mainly for timing studies.
2125
2126 - callisto: Changed limits in MHCalibrationChargeCalc from
2127 - -100.125 to -98 (fgChargeHiGainFirst)
2128 - 1899.875 to 1902. (fgChargeHiGainLast)
2129 - -100.25 to -99 (fgChargeLoGainFirst)
2130 - 899.75 to 901. (fgChargeLoGainLast)
2131 Introduced new limits:
2132 - fgNumLoGainBlackoutLimit: 0.05
2133 - fgLoGainBlackoutLimit: 3.5
2134 - fgLoGainPickupLimit: 3.5
2135
2136 - callisto: The handling of automatic weights for the digital filter
2137 has been improved. There are now new calibration weights special
2138 for Monte Carlo calibrations.
2139
2140 - callisto: Updated Muon scale with latest results (1% difference
2141 for most data, 5% for Mar/Apr'05)
2142
2143 - callisto: use a new criterium to exclude bad pixels: If the high-gain
2144 was saturated and the blackout-events in the low-gain exceed the
2145 fNumLoGainBlackoutLimit, the pixel is declared unsuitable.
2146 This excludes those pixels which have a saturating high-gain
2147 channel, but the low-gain switch does not switch often enough
2148 to make the distribution reliable.
2149
2150 - callisto: fix a bug counting the number of saturated events. Up to now,
2151 the number of saturated slices was counted (which is one for a not too
2152 high number), but for some (pathological) pixels, many more slices
2153 saturated and produced wrong limits.
2154
2155 - callisto: New options in in callisto.rc for MCalibrationRelTimeCalc:
2156 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckFitResults: Yes
2157 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckDeviatingBehavior: Yes
2158 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckHistOverflow: Yes
2159 + MCalibrationRelTimeCam.CheckOscillations: Yes
2160
2161 - callisto: introduce max. number of events for intercalibration,
2162 the rest gets skipped. Default: 4096
2163 The calibration causes too many un-reliable pixels if more
2164 than about 5000 events are treated (@500 Hz) because of the
2165 mode hopping of the VCSels. However, in the past, some
2166 calibration runs have been taken (erroneously) with more
2167 than 5000 events, especially the intensity scans where
2168 a good precision is needed.
2169
2170 - callisto: Set UseExtractorRes to kTRUE, will raise the number of
2171 photo-electrons for the spline extractor by 1-2% (correctly).
2172
2173 - callisto: The intercalibration is now done using a full f-factor
2174 method instead of a simple update. This makes things slower but
2175 more reliable in terms of gain-fluctuations and sudden VCSEL gain
2176 changes.
2177
2178 - callisto: MPedestalY3 now uses the same extraction range as the data
2179 as calculated by MPedestalY2
2180
2181 - callisto: A check of the fraction of allowed unsuitable (10%) and
2182 unreliable (30%) pixels has been addded when the conversion is
2183 calculated from interleaved events
2184
2185 - star: fixed a bug which caused MEffectiveOnTime containers not to
2186 be written. In the worst case they were skipped almost all, in the
2187 best case they were all ok. It depends on how often the new value
2188 was assigned just with an event which was skipped later by another
2189 task
2190
2191 - star: new histograms MHPointing and MHRate
2192
2193 - star: New tab (Currents) displaying the time evolution of the mean
2194 DC currents
2195
2196 - star: New tab (MeanRms) displaying the time volution of the mean
2197 Pedestal Rms
2198
2199 - star: Output now contains MReportStarguider
2200
2201 - star: Improved muon analysis. Due to the absense of a constant
2202 for the gaus fit for arc width and the fact that the arcwidth
2203 plot was a histogram instead of a profile the resulting psf
2204 became pedestal rms dependant
2205
2206 - ganymed: added new plot (MHPhi) for wobble mode as described in
2207 http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/results/ringmethod/
2208
2209 - ganymed: corrects now (correctly?) for the misspointing in
2210 May/April 05
2211
2212 - ganymed: Two new default templates for ganymed.rc are avilable:
2213 ganymed_onoff.rc and ganymed_wobble.rc
2214
2215 - ganymed: The first version of MFMagicCuts has been released
2216
2217 - ganymed: the Conc1 plot was incorrectly scaled in MHVsSize
2218
2219 - ganymed, sponde: There are two new options to determin the number
2220 of bins for the signal region (NumBinsSignal) and the number of
2221 total bins (NumBinsTotal) in the MHThetaSq histogram
2222
2223 - ganymed: optimized palettes for MHDisp
2224
2225 - ganymed: Fixed an important bug when using ThetaSq as fit function:
2226 The result for the sigma of the gauss(sqrt(x)) fit was a factor
2227 sqrt(2) to large
2228
2229 - ganymed: The false source plot (MHDisp) is now based on Disp
2230 and a background model determined in the first loop is
2231 subtracted
2232
2233 - ganymed: MFMagicCuts are now available in the cvs. The correct
2234 solution for the disp ambiguity problem is now calculated using
2235 the third moment. The third moment cut therefor is skipped.
2236
2237 - ganymed: Output now contains "Disp [MParameterD]" which sign is
2238 already determined by the third moment along the major axis and
2239 so its actual sign is aligned along the major axis of the shower.
2240
2241 - ganymed: If starguider data is available it is taken into account
2242 when calculating the source position. This is especially important
2243 for wobble data at high zenith angles and culmination data.
2244
2245 - ganymed: If available the starguider data is taken into account as
2246 good as it is possible without a starguider calibration. To switch
2247 it off add
2248 MPointingDevCalc.MaxAbsDev: -1
2249 to your ganymed.rc
2250
2251 - sponde: the zenith angle distribution is now weighted instead of
2252 choosen by default. This gurantees higher statistics in the highest
2253 and lowest energy bins. To switch this behaviour off use...
2254
2255 - sponde: now automatically displays the energy threshold
2256
2257
2258
2259 *** Version 0.9.3 (2005/06/03)
2260
2261 - general: MMcEvt now derived from MMcEvtBasic which should
2262 have no influence on compatibility with older camera files
2263
2264 - general: Implemented a new option to MReadReports which allows
2265 to force reading of the first event of some trees (eg. Drive-tree)
2266 before any other tree.
2267
2268 - general: Made a fix to MPointingPosCalc which assumes that the
2269 run-type is real-data if Process is called before ReInit, such
2270 that also the very first Drive-events in a run are treated
2271 correctly.
2272
2273 - shoplot now displays the filename in the title bar of the window
2274
2275 - merpp: new options: --auto-time-start --auto-time-stop which
2276 allow to cut updating with slow-control at the start- or
2277 (previousle --auto-time only allowed: and) stop-time of
2278 the run stored in the runheader.
2279
2280 - callisto: changed default of fgFallTimeHiGain in
2281 MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline from 1.5 to 0.5. 0.5 was
2282 already set as default in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2283
2284 - callisto: the digital filter (MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter)
2285 now changes the filename for new weights automatically for
2286 cosmics, MC and for different calibration colors.
2287
2288 - callisto: a problem with the order of some code cause the
2289 name of the weights file in MPedestalY2 to be ignored.
2290 Wrongly the calibration_UV weights were used instead
2291 of the cosmics weights set in callisto.rc.
2292
2293 - callisto: should allow ct1 pulser data when the color is
2294 explicitly set also for pretty new runs
2295
2296 - callisto: a new option (MCalibrateData.ScaleFactor) allows
2297 to introduce an additional scale factor (should be around 1)
2298 to adapt for slight deviations in different extractors from
2299 the MC calibration. For MC calibrations the scale factor
2300 is fixed to 1
2301
2302 - callisto: MFCosmics should handle very high signals a bit
2303 more accurate now
2304
2305 - callisto: when calculating the mean pedestal rms for different
2306 pixel sizes or sectors also kUnsuitableEvt is now taken into
2307 account - not only kUnsuitableRun
2308
2309 - callisto: '-raw' option is now the default
2310
2311 - callisto: A dead pixel check has been implemented in MJPedestalC2.
2312 This has the advantage that mean values in the calibration (eg
2313 arrival times) are calculated more accuratly.
2314
2315 - callisto: In the resource file callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc
2316 MJPedestalY2.ExtractWinRight has been reduced from 4.0 to 2.0
2317
2318 - callisto: new Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration constants
2319 hilocalib_sp1.root and hilocalib_sp1_mc.root
2320
2321 - callisto: changed default for MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents
2322 from 2000 to 5000 like in callisto_Dec04Jan05.txt
2323
2324 - callisto: in MCalibrationChargeCalc the limit fgPheErrLowerLimit
2325 has changed from 9.0 to 6.0. This is necessary to exclude two very
2326 ringing pixels in September which - when kept - destroy the image
2327 cleaning around them (Markus G.)
2328
2329 - callisto: (!) The Muon analysis of all data taken so far has
2330 suggested that different extractors give slightly different
2331 absolute results after calibration, due to there different
2332 handling of the calibration- and cosmics pulse shape. Although
2333 the over all calibration seems to be a bit to pesimistic (or
2334 the MC seems to be a little bit - 3-5% - too much attenuated).
2335 There for correction factors have been introduced which correct
2336 the calibration constants by
2337 0.956937799 for Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2338 and
2339 0.904159132 for Spline (callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc)
2340 calibration. The main advantage is, that both data types can
2341 be easily analysed together and compared to the same MC sample.
2342 The factors are choosen such, that the reference is now a
2343 Monte Carlo sample calibrated with Digital Filter (callisto.rc)
2344
2345 - star: fixed a bug which caused the first bin of the histograms
2346 vs time to disapear in PostProcess. This gave wrong results
2347 on the screen. The output and all following programs not
2348 directly accessing the histograms haven't been affected
2349
2350 - star, ganymed: Made sure that always the first Drive-tree event
2351 is read and Processed before the first data event was read.
2352
2353 - ganymed: implemented the possibility to replace the standard
2354 false source plot with a different one. For example: If
2355 you want to use a Disp based FS plot use the resource:
2356 NameHistFS: MHDisp
2357 For details about the requirements of these plots look
2358 at the corresponding classes
2359
2360 - MJOptimize: For On/Off and Wobble optimization MJOptimize
2361 has been replaced by MJOptimizeCuts. To use MHThetaSq instead
2362 of MHAlpha call MJOptimizeCuts("MHThetaSq"). Make sure in this
2363 case MAlphaFitter is setup correctly. For On-Only optimization
2364 MJOptimize has been Replaced by MJOptimizeCuts, too. Call
2365 RunOn() instead of Run(). For energy estimation MJOptimize
2366 has been replaced by MJOptimizeEnergy
2367
2368 - sponde: The input MC spectrum can now be weighted to fake a
2369 different spectrum. This is done via MMcSpectrumWeight. For
2370 more details see the class description and sponde.rc
2371
2372 - sponde: The paremeter comparsion plots are not scaled by
2373 their entries anymore. Instead the MC plot is scaled by using
2374 the result spectrum of the analysis. If the input MC spectrum
2375 and the result spectrum has different slopes the absolut
2376 normalization is normally wrong.
2377
2378
2379
2380 *** Version 0.9.2 (2005/05/20)
2381
2382 - general: Changed the default paths for calibrated data and image
2383 files. (The implemented access to these files doesn't yet exist)
2384
2385 - general: support for MRunIter has been removed from the job classes
2386 (use the setter functions of MSeqeunce instead)
2387
2388 - general: ProcessFile has been renamed to Process in all job classes,
2389 because ProcessFile is missleading
2390
2391 - general: The storage of the palette in MHCamera is now possible
2392
2393 - general: new bits describing unsuitable and unreliable pixels have
2394 been introduced in MBadPixelsPix: kPreviouslyExcluded,
2395 kDeadPedestalRms, kFluctuatingArrivalTimes
2396
2397 - general: fixed reading of CC-REPORTS (weather data) for Arehucas file
2398 versions newer than V200404070
2399
2400 - general: support for cc file versions newer than V200504130. Added
2401 support for active loads (MCameraActiveLoad) and central pixel
2402 (MCameraCentralPixel)
2403
2404 - general: added new histograms for image parameters versus size
2405 (MHVsSize)
2406
2407 - general: The eventloop now automatically calls PrintStatistics
2408
2409 - Status Display: Improved support for printing:
2410 + A default can now be set in .rootrc (for more details see
2411 MStatusDisplay::PrintPS)
2412 + A print dialog is opened so that printer and command line
2413 can be canged
2414
2415 - showlog: improved such that it handles different verbosity levels
2416 more accurate now. This mean you can suppress output when
2417 using showlog.
2418
2419 - showplot: improved
2420 + The new graphics formats have been implemented
2421 (pdf, svg, png, jpg and xpm)
2422 + Implemented an interface for printing. Because you can change
2423 the printing command from the command line you can use all
2424 the nice postscript tool. To print a booklet for example call:
2425 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="cat %f" filename.root | lpr
2426 showplot -b --print --print-cmd="psbook %f | psnup -2 | lpr" filename.root
2427 showplot -b --null --print --print-cmd="psbook %f" filename.root > book.ps
2428
2429 - callisto: fixed a bug in the recognition of the calibration bit
2430 pattern. Concerns only intensity calibration. (The strength of the
2431 intensity has been updated in some cases)
2432
2433 - callisto: add a filter against PIN Diode events when running over
2434 calibration runs since some of the recent calibration runs have
2435 been taken with Pin Diode.
2436
2437 - callisto: added support for the runs 39942, 39944, 44834, 39941,
2438 39943, 44833 in the calibration (MCalibColorSet)
2439
2440 - callisto: MJCalibration.MHCalibrationChargeCam.ProbLimit has
2441 been set to 1e-18 in callisto_Dec04_Jan05.rc
2442
2443 - callisto: in callisto_Dec04Jan05.rc: set value for
2444 MJPedestalY2.MaxEvents from 2000 to 5000 to get better
2445 statistics for the calculation of the mean pulse time
2446 of the cosmisc
2447
2448 - callisto: the charge limit in the calibration has been raised
2449 from 2.5 to 4.5
2450
2451 - callisto: new setup read from callisto.rc
2452 + MCalibCalcFromPast.fNumEventsDump
2453 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumHiGainSaturationLimit
2454 + MHCalibrationChargeCam.NumLoGainSaturationLimit
2455
2456 - callisto: MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline extractor:
2457 + The integration ranges were shifted by 0.2 FADC slices to the right.
2458 + unreliable handling of floating point values caused different
2459 results on different platform or with different compiler options:
2460 The new algorithm is numerically exact and more accurate because
2461 it doesn't calculate the integration position by multiple times
2462 adding the step-size (which results in numerical uncertanties
2463 exspecially if multiplied with large numbers)
2464 + A lot of fixes have been introduced which effects integrating the
2465 spline at the edges of the valid range. In this case any memory
2466 was randomly accessed. This behaviour can be tested replacing
2467 all MArrayF by TArrayF which perform a range check (but of course
2468 they are a lot slower)
2469 ! No result obtained with the Spline before can be trusted! Due to
2470 random memory access it might by completely random!
2471
2472 - callisto: set new defaults in MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter:
2473 + extraction range in the high gain to 4.
2474 + weights file to cosmics_weights46.dat
2475
2476 - callisto:
2477 + introduce the check for fluctuating arrival times.
2478 + set charge limit to from 2.5 to 4.5
2479 + introduce asymmetric exclusion due to "deviating number of phes":
2480 Default: -9.0 +4.5
2481 + make deviating number of phes unsuitable (see David's findings).
2482
2483 - callisto: fixed the display of unsuitable pixels. The old change
2484 to a real profile in MHCamera broke it.
2485
2486 - callisto: The cosmics filter is used in MJCalibration now
2487 independant of the pulser color (formaly it was used only for
2488 CT1-pulser data). The threshold of number of max empty pixels
2489 has been raised from 2% to 5% in MJCalibration. The maximum
2490 fraction of rejected event is 50% otherwise the calibration has
2491 failed. The filter now ignores unsuitable pixels.
2492 Setup the filter from callisto.rc using "ContCosmics"
2493 (see MFCosmics::ReadEnv)
2494
2495 - callisto: changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain back
2496 from -2.8 to -1.8 in digital filter.
2497
2498 - callisto: for the common extractors
2499 + MExtractFixedWindow
2500 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow
2501 * MExtractTimeAndChargeSpline
2502 * MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2503 the hi- and lo-gain reolution is stored in fResolutionPerPheHiGain
2504 and fResolutionPerPheLoGain
2505
2506 - callisto: Updated the hi-/lo-gain intercalibration constants
2507 hilocalib_sp1.root, hilocalib_df46_mc.root, hilocalib_df4.root,
2508 hilocalib_df6.root
2509
2510 - callisto: The default lo-gain extraction window for the
2511 MExtractTimeAndChargeSlidingWindow extractor has been increased
2512 from 6 to 8 to take the stretch of the pusle into account
2513
2514 - callisto (!!!): fixed an important bug in the setting of the
2515 incoming pedestal pointer to the signal extractor extracting
2516 pedestals. This bug caused the pedestals not to be subtracted
2517 correctly in the calibration afterwards. The effect was about 10%
2518 too high conversion factors for the digital filter and the spline
2519 and more than 40% for the sliding window.
2520 The bug existed since end of February! (Markus G.)
2521
2522 - star: added muon support to star. A new tab "MHMuonPar" is
2523 displayed. The lower right plot is an estimate of the point spread
2524 function. A reference value is displayed. To get the real PSF
2525 you must compare with MC. The setup for the muon analysis
2526 is done in star.rc. More informations can be found in
2527 MHSingleMuon and MHCalibParCalc
2528
2529 - star: The weather data is now displayed in star
2530
2531 - star: MEventRateCalc handles the calculation of the event rate more
2532 accurate now in case of the start of a new run inside a sequence
2533
2534 - ganymed: a bug in MSrcPosCalc has been fixed (The changes were taken
2535 from a bugfix of Wolfgang to Loc0LocToCam; Wolfgang: the results are
2536 changed only minimally
2537
2538 - ganymed: (MJCut and MJOptimize) now displayes the number of
2539 excess events versus size. The energy estimation is done in
2540 MJSpectrum (sponde)
2541
2542 - ganymed: got support for using other variables than Alpha, eg. Theta.
2543 Therefor you need a class deriving from MHAlpha which supports
2544 this variable (one is already existing: MHTheta, which is now the
2545 default in ganymed). It is setup through ganymed.rc
2546
2547 - added a full featured spectrum program (sponde) which reads
2548 ganymed output and monte carlos and compiles a spectrum
2549
2550
2551
2552 *** Version 0.9.1 (2005/04/14)
2553
2554 - Fix bug on the arrival time reconstruction when using Digital
2555 Filter (in some marginal cases (10%) times were reconstructed shifted
2556 by 0.2 slices)
2557
2558 - all executables now return 2 where in previous versions -1 has
2559 been returned (gave problems with shell-scripts)
2560
2561 - the Hi-/Lo-Gain intercalibration for monte carlo files is now
2562 also done with a intercalibration input file
2563
2564 - a bug in the time fine adjustment of the digital filter has been fixed
2565
2566 - a lot of small fixes to calling TPad::Divide with a margin==0
2567
2568 - MStatusDisplay now shows the memory usage
2569
2570 - added a memory leak statistic after the eventloop
2571
2572 - MHadronness replaced by MParameterD
2573
2574 - MEnergyEst replaced by MParameterD
2575
2576 - wobble mode can now be switched on from the data-set
2577
2578 - switched on bad pixel detection for a pedestal level
2579 which is more than 5 times the variance
2580
2581 - Fixed default paths to be correct for the new data center
2582
2583 - Fixed handling of drive data. The pointing position in now
2584 copied to MPointingPos inside star for real and MC events
2585
2586 - made sure, that the sequences in a dataset are sorted by
2587 their number to ensure the correct synchronization
2588
2589 - added all resource files necessary to handle spline extraction
2590 of signal for the late 2004 and the early 2005 data
2591
2592 - update the reference lines for the december data
2593
2594 - changed default for fgHiGainFirst from 2 to 0 in spline extractor
2595 This is important for the Dec. and Jan. data where the calibration
2596 pulse position changes much.
2597
2598 - changed default for fgOffsetFromLogain from -1.8 to -2.8 in digital
2599 filter. This corrects only an defective extraction of the MC at
2600 low-gain signals lower than 90 phes.
2601
2602 - fixed some slowdown in calibrating data with interleaved events from
2603 Jan and Dec. As a workaround made the pretty palette the default.
2604 The inverse Deep Blue Sea has a bug which slows down long calibration
2605 runs a lot.
2606
2607 - implemented new values from new starguider report as defined
2608 in TDAS00-07 V7.1 (eg SkyBrighness)
2609
2610 - Fixed the formerly wrong unit of azimuth and zenith angle deviation
2611 in starguider report (If you merpp the same reports with this version
2612 you'll get the correct units (arcmin) but a different result
2613 than with old versions (wrong units))
2614
2615 - Now the status display can also write PNG, JPEG and XPM (other file
2616 formats are still unsupported by root)
2617
2618 - added a lot of scripts and macros in directory datacenter used
2619 for automatic processing
2620
2621
2622
2623 *** Version 0.9 (2005/03/23)
2624
2625 - Calibration is now done autmatically into photo-electrons like
2626 decided by the Collaboration Board
2627
2628 - Reference lines in the display can be read from resource file
2629
2630 - Interlaced calibration events can be handled by callisto
2631
2632 - Hi-Gain vs. Lo-Gain calibration constants can be calculated
2633 and applied in callisto.
2634
2635 - class MJCalibTest can be called by callisto
2636
2637 - callisto can now run with three data types: rawdata, rootdata, MC
2638
2639 - added two classes mreport/MReportStarguider.cc and
2640 mreport/MReportStarguider.h for implementing starguider-data
2641
2642 - the output of merpp-update now contains starguider information:
2643 MReportStarguider and MTimeStarguider
2644
2645 - Fixed bug in MHHadronness.cc which made that the displayed Q-factor
2646 values were lower than they should. This was more visible for high
2647 energy (Size) events.
2648
2649 - Made MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter the default for callisto
2650
2651 - added a new loop to callisto to support the correct extraction of
2652 the pedestal and pedestal rms through the signal extractor
2653
2654 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2655 (MHexagonalFT)
2656
2657 - added class to perform fourier tranformation of a hexagonal structure
2658 in a tasklist (MHexagonalFTCalc) example: hft.C
2659
2660 - added class to enhance the MCerPhotEvt from the Magic camera geometry
2661 MGeomCamMagic to a enhanced geometry MGeomCamMagicXT having only
2662 small pixels, example: extendcam.C
2663
2664 - added possibility to write data to memory (TTree) using MWriteRootFile
2665
2666 - added possibility to read a TTree stored only in memory by MReadTree
2667
2668 - new classes to deal with the interleaved calibration events:
2669 MTriggerPattern, MTriggerPatternDecode and MFTriggerPattern
2670
2671 - implemented filters to callisto to skip calibration events
2672
2673 - changed callisto to calculate three kinds of pedestals and pedestal rms:
2674 + fundamental pedestal (MPedPhotFundamental): extracted directly from
2675 the slices by statistics
2676 + pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractor): extracted with the
2677 signal extractor without randomization
2678 + random pedestal from extractor (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm): extracted
2679 with the signal extractor with randomization (extraction window is
2680 randomly fixed)
2681 The three kind of pedestal is not yet implemented (for speed reasons) as
2682 long as nobody really needs it:
2683 + pedestal from extractor with randomizatiuon (MPedPhotFromExtractorRndm):
2684 extracted with the signal extractor with randomization
2685
2686 - callisto now finds the pulse position in the data automatically
2687
2688 - implemented data reduction in calibrated data by reducing the precision
2689 of the stored floating point values (pedestal, rms and signal) to
2690 roughly 0.5%
2691
2692 - fixed showplot to make file format conversion (eg. converting a
2693 status display stored in a root file into a postscript file) in
2694 batch mode possible:
2695 showplot -b --save-as-ps[=outfile.ps] infile.root
2696
2697 - Allow class names as part of filter rules, eg
2698 (MFSupercuts) && (MHillas.fSize>100)
2699
2700 - fixed a lot of stuff to allow all programs to process MonteCarlo
2701 camera files.
2702
2703 - enhanced possibility to debug reading of resource file
2704
2705 - MDataChain should handle priorities of operator more
2706 accurate now
2707
2708 - completely revised the container in which the signal is stored
2709 MCerPhotEvt/Pix, MArrivalTime --> MSignalCam/Pix
2710 * the new implementation is faster and
2711 * needs less storage space
2712
2713 - FIRST version which can process Monte Carlos through the
2714 whole chain of programs (callisto, star, etc)
2715
2716 - implemented new image parameters for the border length of
2717 the shower image (MNewImagePar2)
2718
2719 - implemented wobble-mode in ganymed
2720
2721 - new class (MJOptimize) taking care of all optimization processes
2722
2723
2724
2725 *** Version 0.8.6 (2004/10/05)
2726
2727 - New combined signal and time extractor
2728 MExtractTimeAndChargeDigitalFilter
2729
2730 - The Report for the trigger section in the CC run summary has been
2731 updated, and now the IPRs (Individual Pixel Rates) are available.
2732
2733 - new macros for database interaction: filldotrun.C, filldotrbk.C
2734
2735 - added new program which can convert colored output which was redirected
2736 into a file back into colored text (for example to display it with
2737 more): showlog
2738
2739 - added new program to display an MStatusArray of plots (stored with
2740 MStatusDisplay) from a file: showplot
2741
2742 - Added support for Sequences (MSequence). Sequences are blocks of run
2743 files containing the same calibration and belonging to the same
2744 source
2745
2746 - Added a new task (MTaskEnv) which can be used in setup files to switch
2747 between different tasks (for example to choose a signal extractor)
2748
2749 - Implemented automatic file splitting in MWriteRootFile
2750
2751 - After image cleaning an island index is assigned to all used pixels.
2752 The index corresponds to the order of the islands in size.
2753
2754 - added a cleaning which takes signal height _and_ arrival time into
2755 account: probability cleaning (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2756
2757 - added a cleaning which takes takes the absolute number of photons
2758 times the area ratio as cleaning level
2759 (for more details see MImgCleanStd)
2760
2761 - Changed calculation of image parameters such, that it can be done
2762 for all used pixels or the pixels with a defined island index only
2763
2764 - implemented new image parameters displaying the number of islands,
2765 saturated hi-gain and lo-gain pixels (MImagePar, MHImagePar)
2766
2767 - event display in executable changed to support also calibrated files
2768 (done with MJCalibrateSignal)
2769
2770 - added program doing the calibration and the signal extraction
2771 and signal calibration: callisto Most part of the setup is done
2772 by a resource file: callisto.rc
2773
2774 - implemented support for pixels with negative IDs (Raw file format
2775 version 4)
2776
2777 - implemented an new option in merpp (--auto-time) to get the time
2778 range for cc and/or caco data from the run header of the raw data
2779
2780 - New star-program (star and MJStar). Taking calibrated data from
2781 callisto/MJCalibrateSignal as input. The setup is done through
2782 a resource file: star.rc
2783
2784 - Added possibility to setup the eventloop in the mars-executable
2785 Camera Display by a resource file: mars.rc
2786
2787 - The the mars-executable Camera Display can now also read
2788 calibrated data files written by callisto/MJCalibrateSignal
2789
2790 - Added a new class which can calculate the source position in
2791 the camera from a pointing model known to be correct and
2792 the pointing model used for observations (MSrcPosFromModel)
2793
2794 - added a new version of the class calculating the effective on-time
2795 MHEffectiveOnTime. It unifies the old classes MHEffOnTime,
2796 MHEffOnTimeTime, MHEffOnTimeTheta, MHTimeDiff, MHTimeDiffTime and
2797 MHTimeDiffTheta.
2798
2799 - added the possibility to count how often a signal is above (or
2800 below) a certain threshold in MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot (this
2801 can replace MHTriggerLvl0)
2802
2803 - added ore convinient ways to set the axis-titles of your histograms
2804 in your macro to some MH-classes like: MH3, MHVsTime, MHSectorVsTime,
2805 MHPixVsTime, MHVsTime, MHCamEvent and MHCamEventRot
2806
2807
2808
2809 *** Version 0.8.5 (2004/08/06)
2810
2811 - new Signal Extractors: MExtractFixedWindowSpline
2812 and MExtractAmplitudeSpline
2813
2814 - implementes interleave in merpp to be able to merpp parts of a file
2815
2816 - implemented force-functionality to merpp
2817
2818 - star display to display star catalogs (MAstroCatalog)
2819
2820 - star display to 'mirror' stars to the camera (MAstroCamera)
2821
2822 - implemented a new cleaning option which allows cleaning scaled with
2823 the real ratio of the rms depending on the pixel size, not only the
2824 square root of the pixelsize (MImgCleanStd, MCameraData)
2825
2826 - removed obsolete MBlind* classes
2827
2828 - Signal extractor taking the AB flag into account implemented (this makes
2829 an odd number of slices for signal extraction possible
2830 (MExtractSignalABcorr)
2831
2832 - implemented a class extracting the pedestal from the raw-data (events)
2833 itself using empty lo-gain (MpedCalcFromLoGain)
2834
2835 - Added mean values to MPedPhotCam
2836
2837 - Added Makefile for Darwin (this OS is NOT officially supported!)
2838
2839
2840
2841 *** Version 0.8.4 (2004/04/19)
2842
2843 - new fast arrival time extractor using cubic splines:
2844 MExtractTimeFastSpline
2845
2846 - implementes multi-argument support in MDataChain
2847 ("pow(a, b)")
2848
2849 - implemented double reference support in MDataChain
2850 ("MCameraLV.fPowerSupplyA.fVoltagePos5V")
2851
2852 - added support in MF for expressiond like
2853 "MHillas.fWidth<2*<MHillas.fLength"
2854
2855 - MDataChain is now able to support variables like [0], [1], ...
2856 which can be used in fit functions as parameters. The interface
2857 is implemented through the new virtual function
2858 MParContainer::SetVariables
2859
2860 - added new class MArrivalTimeCam/MArrivalTimePix:
2861 Storage containers to hold the ArrivalTime of the camera/pixel
2862
2863 - added new classes for the calibration of relative arrival times:
2864 MCalibrationRelTimePix and MCalibrationRelTimeCam
2865
2866 - added new classes to extract the signal of the blind pixel and the
2867 PIN Diode separately: MExtractBlindPixel and MExtractPINDiode
2868
2869 - added new classes for the bad-pixels treatment (MBadPixels*)
2870 which are more powerfull than the old ones (MBlindPixel*)
2871 and will replace them.
2872
2873 - added filter against cosmics: MFCosmics
2874
2875 - added new class MArrivalTimeCalc2:
2876 Calculates the arrival time as the signal weighted mean of the time
2877 slices in the maximum window
2878
2879 - added a new macro call pointspreadfucntion.C that fits with a 2D
2880 gaussian the DC spot for an star. It gives you the RMS of
2881 the PSF and the center of the star, very useful for misspointing
2882 studies.
2883
2884 - added support for multi-telescope camera files. Added classes
2885 MStereoCalc and MStereoPar, classes to calculate and store shower
2886 parameters calculated from the data of two telescopes, for the MC
2887 studies regarding the MAGIC clone.
2888
2889 - added MMcCalibrationCalc, MMcCalibrationUpdate, classes to obtain
2890 MC data calibrated in photons instead of ADC counts.
2891
2892 - added three macros to show the calibration and analysis chain of
2893 MC data. The macro starmc.C does both calibration and analysis, producing
2894 an output containing Hillas parameters for each event. The macro
2895 mccalibrate.C does just the calibration and writes out a file containing
2896 pixel information in photons instead of FADC data. The macro starmc2.C
2897 reads in such a file and produces an output with Hillas parameters.
2898
2899 - added MPedPhotCalc to compute pedestals in units of photons, see
2900 macro pedphotcalc.C
2901
2902 - added all class to perform the calibration, see macro calibration.C
2903
2904 - added class MFFT to perform Fast Fourier Transforms
2905
2906 - added class MSimulatedAnnealing to perform simulated annealing
2907 minimizations
2908
2909 - added new macro bootcampstandardanalysis.C which holds the skeleton
2910 of the analysis chain discussed in the december bootcamp.
2911
2912 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
2913
2914 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events from raw-data
2915 files with file version<3. It is calculated from the run number,
2916 the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first module
2917
2918 - implemented the correct decoding of the event time-stamp
2919 coming from the DAQ for raw-data files with file-version>2
2920
2921 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
2922 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
2923
2924 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
2925
2926 - added support for start- and stop-time when merpping report files
2927
2928 - added MReportCC storing the weather data from the CC-REPORT
2929
2930 - added class to fill trainings and test matrices (MTFillMatrix)
2931
2932 - added a filter performing a software trigger (MFSoftwareTrigger)
2933
2934 - Added classes to perform parts of the standard analysis (Jobs):
2935 + MJPedestals
2936 + MJCalibration
2937 + MJExtractSignal
2938 Note: All of them are preliminary!
2939
2940 - Added Iterator to iterate over files giving only the run-number
2941
2942 - Added class (MHSectorVsTime) and example (sectorvstime.C) to plot
2943 the evolution of a sector vs time
2944
2945
2946
2947 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
2948
2949 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
2950 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
2951 camera version 0.7.
2952
2953 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
2954 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
2955
2956 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
2957
2958 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
2959 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
2960 be done soon.
2961
2962 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
2963 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
2964
2965 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
2966 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
2967 of time (readrep.C)
2968
2969 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
2970 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
2971 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
2972
2973 - Changed the name of the event trees:
2974 + Events --> Events
2975 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
2976 + CalEvents --> Calibration
2977
2978 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
2979
2980 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
2981
2982 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
2983 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
2984
2985 - added classes to calculate event rate
2986 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
2987
2988 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
2989
2990 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
2991
2992 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
2993 the new 'Synchonizer'
2994
2995
2996
2997 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
2998
2999 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
3000 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
3001 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
3002
3003 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
3004 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
3005 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
3006
3007 - added a new executable star which implements the
3008 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
3009 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
3010
3011 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
3012 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
3013 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
3014
3015 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
3016 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
3017
3018 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
3019
3020
3021
3022 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
3023
3024 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
3025 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
3026 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
3027 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
3028
3029 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
3030 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
3031
3032 - added pedestal calculation
3033
3034 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
3035 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
3036
3037 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
3038
3039 - added basic routines to apply padding
3040
3041 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
3042 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
3043
3044 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
3045 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
3046
3047 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
3048 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
3049
3050 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
3051 at all)
3052
3053 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
3054 ignore files
3055
3056 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
3057 to simulate the PMT camera
3058
3059 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
3060 programs in the MC chain.
3061
3062 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
3063 parameter in an eventloop.
3064
3065 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
3066 location (Long, Lat, etc)
3067
3068 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
3069
3070 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
3071 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
3072
3073 - added a new status display which can show the present status
3074 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
3075 an example can be found at status.C)
3076
3077 - reorganized directories:
3078 classes describing the image --> mimage
3079 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
3080 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
3081
3082 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
3083
3084 - colors in logging output to screen
3085
3086 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
3087 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
3088 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
3089 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
3090 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
3091
3092 - reading of reflector files
3093
3094 - display data from reflector files in the camera
3095
3096 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
3097
3098 - logarithmic scale in camera
3099
3100 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
3101
3102
3103
3104 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
3105
3106 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
3107
3108 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
3109 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
3110 missing a single NN)
3111
3112 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
3113 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
3114 have any neighbour)
3115
3116 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
3117 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
3118 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
3119 please ask Abelardo)
3120
3121 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
3122 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
3123
3124 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
3125
3126 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
3127 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
3128 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
3129 changed.
3130
3131 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
3132 (MHMatrix)
3133
3134 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
3135 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
3136
3137 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
3138 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
3139
3140 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
3141 event display gui.
3142
3143 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
3144
3145 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
3146
3147 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
3148
3149 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
3150 to MHillas
3151
3152 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
3153
3154 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
3155
3156 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
3157
3158 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
3159
3160 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
3161 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
3162 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
3163
3164 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
3165
3166 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
3167 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
3168
3169 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
3170 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
3171 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
3172 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
3173 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
3174
3175 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
3176 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
3177
3178 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
3179 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
3180
3181 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
3182 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
3183
3184 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
3185
3186 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
3187
3188 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
3189 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
3190
3191 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
3192 (thanks to Raquel)
3193
3194 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
3195 estfit.C) using a parametrization
3196
3197 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
3198 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
3199 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
3200
3201
3202
3203 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
3204
3205 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
3206 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
3207 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
3208 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
3209
3210 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
3211 for the collection area calculation
3212
3213 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
3214 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
3215
3216 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
3217 of one container
3218
3219 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
3220 ascii file
3221
3222 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
3223 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
3224 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
3225 hillas parameters)
3226
3227 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
3228 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
3229 see MHillas and MHillasExt
3230
3231 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
3232 see MHillasSrc
3233
3234 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
3235 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
3236 all histograms)
3237
3238 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
3239
3240 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
3241
3242 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
3243
3244 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
3245 an output stream instead of the whole container only
3246
3247 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
3248 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
3249
3250 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
3251 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
3252
3253 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
3254 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
3255
3256 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
3257
3258 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
3259 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
3260 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
3261
3262 - Added:
3263 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
3264 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
3265 they are needed in the flux calculation in
3266 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
3267 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
3268 of Theta and the true energy
3269
3270 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
3271 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
3272 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
3273 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
3274 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
3275 by unfolding
3276
3277 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
3278
3279
3280
3281 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
3282
3283 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
3284 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
3285 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
3286
3287 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
3288
3289 - Introduced verbosity levels
3290
3291 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
3292
3293 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
3294 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
3295
3296 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
3297 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
3298
3299 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
3300
3301 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
3302
3303 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
3304 of a parameter container for each event
3305
3306 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
3307
3308 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
3309
3310 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
3311 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
3312 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
3313
3314 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
3315 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
3316 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
3317
3318
3319
3320 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
3321
3322 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
3323
3324 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
3325 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
3326
3327 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
3328 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
3329 states
3330
3331 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
3332 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
3333
3334 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
3335
3336 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
3337 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
3338
3339 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
3340 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
3341
3342 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
3343 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
3344 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
3345
3346 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
3347 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
3348
3349 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
3350 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
3351
3352 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
3353 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
3354
3355
3356
3357 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
3358
3359 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
3360
3361 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
3362
3363 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
3364
3365 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
3366
3367 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
3368
3369 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
3370
3371 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
3372
3373 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
3374
3375 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
3376 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
3377
3378
3379
3380 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
3381
3382 - Many demo macros added
3383
3384 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
3385
3386 - Hillas Calculation added
3387
3388 - Standard image cleaning available
3389
3390 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
3391 (Remark: of the same structure)
3392
3393 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
3394 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
3395 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
3396
3397
3398
3399 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
3400
3401 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
3402 gui with the command mars.
3403
3404
3405
3406 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
3407
3408 - First official release 0.1
3409
3410 - Changes:
3411
3412 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
3413 while-loop
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