The ASteCA package is designed to fully automatize the usual tests applied on star clusters in order to determine their characteristics: center, radius, stars membership probabilities and associated intrinsic/extrinsic parameters: metallicity, age, reddening, distance, total mass, binarity fraction, etc.
IMPORTANT: until the release of v1.0.0 the package will be under heavy development. Keep this in mind if you want to use it in your research.
The latest release can always be accessed here.
See the CHANGELOG file for a list of previous releases, the changes made in each one, and possible compatibility breaks with older versions.
ASteCA requires the following packages:
The emcee package is not essential but some functions will not work without it. The packages ptemcee and corner.py are included within the code for simplicity, and don't need to be installed.
The accompanying article describing the code in detail can be accessed via A&A, and referenced 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",
}
This article will rapidly become outdated as new versions are released. For an up to date description of ASteCA please refer to the online documentation.
- List of open bugs.
- List of planned enhancements.
- High priority issues.
- All open issues.