changelog.txt

Changelog - to keep track of all relevant changes

please update the categories "new features" and "bugfixes" before a pull request merge!

version 1.2
new features:
- users can specify a different bandwidth for each channel in the channelBandPassFilter and channelGenericNoiseAdder module
- new coreas read in function to generate signals for a grid of stations
- added simulation of galactic noise
- new phased array trigger module
- eventWriter: Add option to specify number of events per file

bug fixes:
- Added if check in voltageToEfieldConverter.py under method get_array_of_channels() to see if sim station is initialized
- trigger modules set the trigger time to 0 in case not trigger was recorded. This lead to problems, and wrong total trigger times, if multiple triggers were recorded. Now, no trigger time is set if not trigger was found.
- made detector_sys_uncertainties compatible with python3 and detector updates
- Typo in antennapattern.py; processing antenna responses fails. replaces s_parameteres with s_parameters


version 1.1.2 -

new features:
- Added the ability to force polarization to be only eTheta or ePhi in the reconstruction of the electric field using voltageToEfieldConverter.py
- new detector which allows to change certain parameters of the detector description to study systematic uncertainties.
- Simulations with alias (higher Nyquist zones) for the phased array now supported
- NuRadioRecoIO has a 100MB read buffer by default
- Changed detector description to optionally take antenna model name directly from detector description (without automatically selecting antenna model dependent on depth of the antenna)
- NuRadioReco now fails if no antenna pattern was found

bug fixes:
-Removed function "get_relative_positions(self, station_id)" from detector.py because the ordering of channels is different from a sql initiated detector compared to a json initiated detector. Must use "get_relative_position(self, station_id, channel_id)", which specifies which channel to get the position for.


version 1.1.1 - 2020/03/23

new features:
- changed the way logging is handled.
- RNO-G hardware response added


version 1.1.0 - 2020/01/15

new features:
- added module registry. By adding a decorator to the run methods of every module, we keep track of the modules applied to an event
-Added new module called "beamFormingDirectionFitter" that fits direction through an interferometry method (dubbed beamForming)
-Added the internal clock parameter (time since last trigger with ms precision) to ARIANNA paremeters (key number 8)
-Changed import "detector_sql" to "from NuRadioReco.detector import detector_sql" and .GetSec() to datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(self.config_tree.TrigStartClock.GetCurrTime()) in the detector.py and readARIANNAdataCalin.py files respectively in order to make it python3 compatible.
-Updated documentation and made it deployable on github
-Changed normalization of the frequency spectrum. The amplitude is now given as V/GHz (or V/m/GHz for E-fields) instead of
   V/GHz/bin. This way, the values of trace.get_frequency_spectrum() are independent of the sampling rate. The fft utilities
   now also need the sampling rate as an argument.
-Envelope phased array available
-Trigger times now include the time with respect to the first interaction (vertex times)
-Analog to digital converter module added
-Improved calculation of the diode noise parameters
-channelSignalReconstructor no longer requires static signal window but can set it automatically
-Save the git hashes of the NuRadioReco, NuRadioMC and radiotools version a .nur file was created with

Detector description can be stored in .nur files
Large overhaul of the event structure. Adds shower classes and hybrid detector information.

bugfixes:
-Fixes increase in filesize caused by switch to python3
-Fixed bug when using no secondary channels on the phased array
-Fixed bug when using ARA trigger


version 1.0.0 - 2019/08/30 - first python 3 release