Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
4 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 266, Star Clusters - Basic Galactic Building Bl
Scientific paper
MASSCLEAN is a new, sophisticated and robust stellar cluster image and photometry simulation package. This package is able to create color-magnitude diagrams and standard FITS images in any of the traditional optical and near-infrared bands based on cluster characteristics input by the user, including but not limited to distance, age, mass, radius and extinction. At the limit of very distant, unresolved clusters, we have checked the integrated colors created in MASSCLEAN against those from other simple stellar population (SSP) models with consistent results. Because the algorithm populates the cluster with a discrete number of tenable stars, it can be used as part of a Monte Carlo Method to derive the probabilistic range of characteristics (integrated colors, for example) consistent with a given cluster mass and age. We present the first ever mass dependent integrated colors as a function of age, derived from over 100,000 Monte Carlo runs, which can be used to improve the current age determination methods for stellar clusters.
Hanson Margaret Murray
Popescu Bogdan
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