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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21545526p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #455.26; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.477
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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 (e.g. integrated colors) consistent with a given cluster's mass and age. We present mass dependent integrated colors as a function of age, derived from over 200,000 Monte Carlo runs (30 million cluster models), which can be used to improve the current age determination methods for stellar clusters.
Hanson Margaret Murray
Popescu Bogdan
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