2001/10/10 by Gustavo Bruzual, Gustavo Bruzual A, A, Gustavo Bruzual
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0110245
9 pages, 5 figures, in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 207, Extragalactic Star Clusters
arxiv created 2001/10/10 · openalex publication_date 2001/10/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2019/12/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper I combine the results of a set of population synthesis models with simple Montecarlo simulations of stochastic effects in the number of stars occupying sparsely populated stellar evolutionary phases, to show that the scatter observed in the magnitudes and colors of LMC and NGC 7252 star clusters can be understood in the framework of current stellar evolution theory, without the need to introduce ad-hoc corrections (e.g. artificially increasing the number of AGB stars).