ASteCA

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ASteCA#

ASteCA is pure Python open source tool designed to perform the analysis applied to stellar clusters in order to determine their intrinsic/extrinsic fundamental parameters: extinction, distance, metallicity, age, binarity, mass, etc..

Important

Version 0.5.2 released on the 7th of May, 2024. See Changelog for a detailed list of the changes implemented.

Install with:

pip install asteca

More details on how to install using a conda environment are available in Installation.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about using this code in your research, and please open a new issue in the code’s repository if you find something either wrong, confusing or missing.

License & Attribution#

Copyright 2015-2024 Gabriel I Perren.

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

If you make use of ASteCA in your research, please cite its accompanying 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",
}

TOC#

User guide

Tutorials

API Reference