ASteCA

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ASteCA#

The Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis package or ASteCA is an open-source tool developed in Python for the analysis of stellar clusters. It is designed to determine their structural parameters, membership probabilities, and both intrinsic and extrinsic fundamental properties, including extinction, distance, metallicity, age, binarity, and mass.

Important

The latest version is 0.6.1. See the Changelog for a detailed list of the changes implemented.

If you have any questions about this package and how to use it in your research please contact me or open a new issue in the code’s repository.

Attribution & License#

If you make use of ASteCA in your research, please cite its original article using the following BibTeX entry:

@article{Perren_2015,
    author = {{Perren, G. I.} and {V\'azquez, R. A.} and {Piatti, A. E.}},
    title = {ASteCA: Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis},
    DOI= "10.1051/0004-6361/201424946",
    url= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424946",
    journal = {A\&A},
    year = 2015,
    volume = 576,
    pages = "A6",
    month = "04",
}

ASteCA is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE.

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