Star counts in the Galaxy. Simulating from very deep to very shallow photometric surveys with the TRILEGAL code

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2005-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504047v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20042352

We describe TRILEGAL, a new populations synthesis code for simulating the stellar photometry of any Galaxy field. The code attempts to improve upon several technical aspects of star count models, by: dealing with very complete input libraries of evolutionary tracks; using a stellar spectral library to simulate the photometry in any broad-band system; being very versatile allowing easy changes in the input libraries and in the description of all of its ingredients -- like the SFR, AMR, IMF, and geometry of Galaxy components. In a previous paper (Groenewegen et al. 2002), the code was first applied to describe the very deep star counts of the CDFS stellar catalogue. Here, we briefly describe its initial calibration using EIS-deep and DMS star counts, which are adequate samples to probe both the halo and the disc components of largest scale heights (oldest ages). We then present the changes in the calibration that were necessary to cope with some improvements in the model input data, and the use of more extensive photometry datasets: the relatively shallower 2MASS catalogue, which probes mostly the disc at intermediate ages, and the immediate solar neighbourhood as sampled by Hipparcos, which contains a somewhat larger fraction of younger stars than deeper surveys. Remarkably, the same model calibration can reproduce well the star counts in all the above-mentioned data sets, that span from the very deep magnitudes of CDFS (16

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