Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-02-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
Accepted by A&A
Scientific paper
Usually, important parameters of young, low-mass star clusters are very difficult to obtain by means of photometry, especially when differential reddening and/or binaries occur in large amounts. We present a semi-analytical approach that, applied to the Hess diagram of a young star cluster, is able to retrieve the values of mass, age, star-formation spread, distance modulus, foreground and differential reddening, and binary fraction. The global optimisation method known as adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) is used to minimise the residuals between the observed and simulated Hess diagrams of a star cluster. The simulations are realistic and take the most relevant parameters of young clusters into account. Important features of the simulations are: a normal (Gaussian) differential reddening distribution, a time-decreasing star-formation rate, the unresolved binaries, and the smearing effect produced by photometric uncertainties on Hess diagrams. Free parameters are: cluster mass, age, distance modulus, star-formation spread, foreground and differential reddening, and binary fraction.
Bica Eduardo
Bonatto Charles
Lima Eliade F.
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