Change Log

Ctapipe 0.18.1 (2023-03-16)

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure the correct activity metadata is written into output files. [#2261]

  • Fix --overwrite option not taking effect for ctapipe-apply-models. [#2287]

  • Fix TableLoader.read_subarray_events raising an exception when load_observation_info=True. [#2288]

ctapipe v0.18.0 (2023-02-09)

API Changes

  • ctapipe now uses entry points for plugin discovery. EventSource implementations now need to advertise a ctapipe_io entry point, to be discovered by ctapipe. Additionally, ctapipe now includes preliminary support for discovering Reconstructor implementations via the ctapipe_reco entry_point. [#2101]

  • Migrate muon analysis into the ctapipe-process tool:

    1. The former muon_reconstruction tool is dropped and all functionalities are transferred into the ctapipe-process tool.

    2. The process tool now has a write_muon_parameters flag which defaults to false. Muons are only analyzed and written if the flag is set. Analyzing muons requires DL1 image parameters, so they are computed in case they are not available from the input even if the user did not explicitly ask for the computation of image parameters.

    3. Two instances of QualityQuery, MuonProcessor.ImageParameterQuery and MuonProcessor.RingQuery are added to the muon analysis to either preselect images according to image parameters and to select images according to the initial, geometrical ring fit for further processing. Deselected events or those where the muon analysis fails are being returned and written filled with invalid value markers instead of being ignored. Base configure options for the muon analysis were added to the base_config.yaml.

    4. The DataWriter now writes the results of a muon analysis into /dl1/event/telescope/muon/tel_id, given write_moun_parameters is set to true.

    5. Muon nodes were added to the HDF5EventSource, the TableLoader and the ctapipe-merge tool. [#2168]

  • Change default behaviour of run_rool:

    1. The default value of raises is now True. That means, when using run_tool, the Exceptions raised by a Tool will be re-raised. The raised exceptions can be tested for their type and content. If the Tool must fail and only the non-zero error case is important to test, set raises=False (as it was before).

    2. If the cwd parameter is None (as per default), now a temporary directory is used instead of the directory, where run_tool is called (typically via pytest). This way, log-files and other output files don’t clutter your working space. [#2175]

  • Remove -f flag as alias for --overwrite and fail early if output exists, but overwrite is not set [#2213]

  • The _chunked methods of the TableLoader now return an Iterator over namedtuples with start, stop, data. [#2241]

  • Remove debug-logging and early-exits in hdf5eventsource so broken files raise errors. [#2244]

New Features

  • Implement Components and Tools to perform training and application of machine learning models based on scikit-learn.

    Four new tools are implemented: - ctapipe-train-energy-regressor - ctapipe-train-particle-classifier - ctapipe-train-disp-reconstructor - ctapipe-apply-models

    The first two tools are used to train energy regression and particle classification respectively. The third tool trains two models for geometrical reconstruction using the disp method and the fourth tool can apply those models in bulk to input files. ctapipe-process can now also apply these trained models directly in the event loop.

    The intended workflow is to process training files to a combined dl1 / dl2 level using ctapipe-process, merging those to large training files using ctapipe-merge and then train the models. [#1767, #2121, #2133, #2138, #2217, #2229, #2140]

  • Tool now comes with an ExitStack that enables proper handling of context-manager members inside Tool.run. Things that require a cleanup step should be implemented as context managers and be added to the tool like this:

    self.foo = self.enter_context(Foo())

    This will ensure that Foo.__exit__ is called when the Tool terminates, for whatever reason. [#1926]

  • Implement atmospheric profiles for conversions from h_max to X_max. The new module ctapipe.atmosphere has classes for the most common cases of a simple ExponentialAtmosphereDensityProfile, a TableAtmosphereDensityProfile and CORSIKA’s FiveLayerAtmosphereDensityProfile. [#2000]

  • TableLoader can now also load observation and scheduling block configuration. [#2096]

  • The ctapipe-info tool now supports printing information about the available EventSource and Reconstructor implementations as well as io and reco plugins. [#2101]

  • Allow lookup of TelescopeParameter values by telescope type. [#2120]

  • Implement a SoftwareTrigger component to handle the effect of selecting sub-arrays from larger arrays in the simulations. The component can remove events where the stereo trigger would not have decided to record an event and also remove single telescopes from events for cases like the CTA LSTs, that have their own hardware stereo trigger that requires at least two LSTs taking part in an event. [#2136]

  • It’s now possible to transform between GroundFrame coordinates and astropy.coordinates.EarthLocation, enabling the conversion between relative array coordinates (used in the simulation) and absolute real-world coordinates. [#2167]

  • The ctapipe-display-dl1 tool now has a QualityQuery instance which can be used to select which images should be displayed. [#2172]

  • Add a new ctapipe.io.HDF5Merger component that can selectively merge HDF5 files produced with ctapipe. The new component is now used in the ctapipe-merge tool but can also be used on its own. This component is also used by ctapipe-apply-models to selectively copy data from the input file to the output file. Through using this new component, ctapipe-merge gained support for fine-grained control which information should be included in the output file and for appending to existing output files. [#2179]

  • CameraDisplay.overlay_coordinate can now be used to plot coordinates into the camera display, e.g. to show the source position or the position of stars in the FoV. [#2203]

Bug Fixes

  • Fix for Hillas lines in ArrayDisplay being wrong in the new EastingNorthingFrame. [#2134]

  • Replace usage of $HOME with Path.home() for cross-platform compatibility. [#2155]

  • Fix for TableLoader having the wrong data types for obs_id, event_id and tel_id. [#2163]

  • Fix Tool printing a large traceback in case of certain configuration errors. [#2171]

  • The string representation of Field now sets numpy print options to prevent large arrays in the docstrings of Container classes. [#2173]

  • Fix missing comma in eventio version requirement in setup.cfg (#2185). [#2187]

  • Move reading of stereo data before skipping empty events in HDF5EventSource, this fixes a bug where the stereo data and simulation data get out of sync with the other event data when using allowed_tels. [#2189]

  • Fix mixture of quantity and unit-less values passed to np.histogram in ctapipe.image.muon.ring_completeness, which raises an error with astropy 5.2.1. [#2197]

Maintenance

  • Use towncrier for the generation of change logs [#2144]

  • Replace usage of deprecated astropy matrix function. [#2166]

  • Use weakref.proxy(parent) in Component.__init__.

    Due to the configuration systems, children need to reference their parent(s). When parents get out of scope, their children still hold the reference to them. That means that python cannot garbage-collect the parents (which are Tools, most of the time).

    This change uses weak-references (which do not increase the reference count), which means parent-Tools can get garbage collected by python.

    This decreases the memory consumption of the tests by roughly 50%. [#2223]

Refactoring and Optimization

  • Speed-up table loader by using hstack instead of join where possible. [#2126]

v0.7.0 – 0.17.0

For changelogs for these releases, please visit the github releases page

v0.6.1

  • Fix broken build (#743) @kosack

  • Add example script for a simple event writer (#746) @jjlk

  • Fix camera axis alignment in HillasReconstructor (#741) @mackaiver

  • Lst reader (#749) @FrancaCassol

  • replace deprecated astropy broadcast (#754) @mackaiver

  • A few more example notebooks (#757) @kosack

  • Add MC xmax info (#759) @mackaiver

  • Use Astropy Coordinate Transofmations For Reconstruction (#758) @mackaiver

  • Trigger pixel reader (#745) @thomasarmstrong

  • Change requested in #742: init Hillas skewness and kurtosis to NaN (#744) @STSpencer

  • Fix call to np.linalg.leastsq (#760) @kosack

  • Fix/muon bugs (#762) @kosack

  • Implement hillas features usen eigh (#748) @MaxNoe

  • Use HillasParametersContainer only (#763) @MaxNoe

  • Regression features in RegressorClassifierBase (#764) @vuillaut

  • Adding an example notebook no how to convert hex geometry to square and back (#767) @vuillaut

  • Wrong angle in ArrayDisplay. changed phi to psi. (#771) @thomasgas

  • Unstructured interpolator (#770) @ParsonsRD

  • Lst reader (#776) @FrancaCassol

  • Fixing core reconstruction (#777) @kpfrang

  • Leakage (#783) @MaxNoe

  • Revert “Fixing core reconstruction” (#789) @kosack

  • Fixing the toy image generator (#790) @MaxNoe

  • Fix bad builds by changing channel name (missing pyqt package) (#793) @kosack

  • Implement concentration image features (#791) @MaxNoe

  • updated main documentation page (#792) @kosack

  • Impact intersection (#778) @mackaiver

  • add test for sliced geometries for hillas calculation (#781) @mackaiver

  • Simple HESS adaptations (#794) @ParsonsRD

  • added a config file for github release-drafter plugin (#795) @kosack

  • Array plotting (#784) @thomasgas

  • Minor changes: mostly deprecationwarning fixes (#787) @mireianievas

  • Codacy code style improvements (#796) @dneise

  • Add unit to h_max in HillasReconstructor (#797) @jjlk

  • speed up unit tests that use test_event fixture (#798) @kosack

  • Update Timing Parameters (#799) @LukasNickel

v0.6.0

This is an interim release, after some major refactoring, and before we add the automatic gain selection and refactored container classes. It’s not intended yet for production.

Some Major changes since last release:

  • new EventSource class hierarchy for reading event data, which now supports simulation and testbench data from multiple camera prototypes (notably CHEC, SST-1M, NectarCam)

  • new EventSeeker class for (inefficient) random event access.

  • a much improved Factory class

  • re-organized event data structure (still evolving) - all scripts not in ctapipe must be changed to work with the new data items that were re-named (a migration guide will be given in the 0.7 release)

  • better HDF5 table output, supporting merging multiple Containers into a single output table

  • improvements to Muon analysis, and the muon example script

  • improvements to the calibration classes

  • big improvements to the Instrument classes

  • lots of cleanups and bug fixes

  • much more…

v0.5.3 (unreleased)

  • Major speed improvements to calibration code, particuarly

    NeighborPeakIntegrator (Jason Watson, #490), which now uses some compiled c-code for speed.

  • GeometryConverter now works for all cameras (Tino Michael, #)

  • Plotting improvements when overlays are used (Max Noe, #489)

  • Fixes to coordinate PlanarRepresentation (Max Noe, #506)

  • HDF5 output for charge resolution calculation (Jason Watons, #488)

  • Stastical errors added to sensitivity calculation (Tino Michel, #508)

  • Error estimator for direction and h_max fits in HillasReconstructor (Tino Michael, #509, #510)

v0.5.2 (2017-07-31)

  • improvements to core.Container (Max Noe)

  • TableWriter correctly handles units and metadata

  • ctapipe.instrument now has much more rich functionality (SubarrayDescription, TelescopeDescription, OpticsDescription classes added)

  • no more need to construct CameraGeometry manually, they are created in the hessio_event_source, all new code should use event.inst.subarray. The old inst.tel_pos, inst.optics_foclen, etc, will be phased out in the next point release (but still exist in this release) (K. Kosack)

  • ctapipe-dump-instrument script added

  • improvements to Regressor and Classifier code (Tino Michael)

  • provenance system includes actor roles

  • fixes to likelihood tests (Dan Parsons)

v0.5.1 (2016-07-20)

  • TQDM and iminuit are now accepted dependencies

  • Implementation of ImPACT reconstruction and TableInterpolator class (Dan Parsons)

  • improved handling of atmosphere profiles

  • Implementation of Muon detection and reconstruction algorithms (Alison Mitchell)

  • unified camera and telescope names

  • better dataset handling (ctapipe.utils.datasets), and now automatically find datasets and tables in ctapipe-extra or in any directory listed in the user-defined $CTAPIPE_SVC_PATH path.

  • TableWriter class (HDF5TableWriter) for writing out any core.Container to an HDF5 table via pytables (Karl Kosack)

  • Improvements to flow framework (Jean Jacquemier)

  • Travis CI now builds automatically for multiply python versions and uploads lates documentation

  • use Lanscape.io for code quality

  • code for calculating sensitivity curves using event-weighting method (Tino Michael)