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massclean (MASSive CLuster Evolution and ANalysis Package): description, tests, and results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Bogdan Popescu  and
M. M. Hanson
Bogdan Popescu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA email: popescb@mail.uc.edu, margaret.hanson@uc.edu
M. M. Hanson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA email: popescb@mail.uc.edu, margaret.hanson@uc.edu
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Abstract

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massclean is a new, sophisticated and robust stellar cluster image and photometry simulation package. This package can 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 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.

Keywords

Galaxy: stellar contentopen clusters and associations: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S266: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space , August 2009 , pp. 511 - 515
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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