Bayesian Analysis for Stellar Evolution with Nine Parameters (BASE-9): User's Manual

Ted von Hippel; Elliot Robinson; Elizabeth Jeffery; Rachel Wagner-Kaiser; Steven DeGennaro; Nathan Stein; David Stenning; William H. Jefferys; David van Dyk

Bayesian Analysis for Stellar Evolution with Nine Parameters (BASE-9): User's Manual

Ted von Hippel
, Elliot Robinson
, Elizabeth Jeffery
, Rachel Wagner-Kaiser
, Steven DeGennaro
, Nathan Stein
, David Stenning
, William H. Jefferys
, David van Dyk

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BASE-9 is a Bayesian software suite that recovers star cluster and stellar parameters from photometry. BASE-9 is useful for analyzing single-age, single-metallicity star clusters, binaries, or single stars, and for simulating such systems. BASE-9 uses Markov chain Monte Carlo and brute-force numerical integration techniques to estimate the posterior probability distributions for the age, metallicity, helium abundance, distance modulus, and line-of-sight absorption for a cluster, and the mass, binary mass ratio, and cluster membership probability for every stellar object. BASE-9 is provided as open source code on a version-controlled web server. The executables are also available as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud images. This manual provides potential users with an overview of BASE-9, including instructions for installation and use.

Original language	American English
Journal	arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
State	Published - Nov 14 2014

Keywords

BASE-9
Bayesian software
photometry
star clusters
stellar parameters.

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Physics
Astrophysics and Astronomy
Instrumentation
Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy

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Bayesian Analysis for Stellar Evolution with Nine Parameters (BASE-9): User's Manual

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