Deriving Stellar Properties, Distances, and Reddenings using Photometry and Astrometry with BRUTUS
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| author | Speagle, Joshua S. Zucker, Catherine Beane, Angus Cargile, Phillip A. Dotter, Aaron Finkbeiner, Douglas P. Green, Gregory M. Johnson, Benjamin D. Schlafly, Edward F. Bonaca, Ana Conroy, Charlie Eadie, Gwendolyn Eisenstein, Daniel J. Goodman, Alyssa A. Han, Jiwon Jesse Kamdar, Harshil M. Naidu, Rohan Rix, Hans-Walter Saydjari, Andrew K. Ting, Yuan-Sen Zelko, Ioana A. |
| author_facet | Speagle, Joshua S. Zucker, Catherine Beane, Angus Cargile, Phillip A. Dotter, Aaron Finkbeiner, Douglas P. Green, Gregory M. Johnson, Benjamin D. Schlafly, Edward F. Bonaca, Ana Conroy, Charlie Eadie, Gwendolyn Eisenstein, Daniel J. Goodman, Alyssa A. Han, Jiwon Jesse Kamdar, Harshil M. Naidu, Rohan Rix, Hans-Walter Saydjari, Andrew K. Ting, Yuan-Sen Zelko, Ioana A. |
| contents | We present brutus, an open source Python package for quickly deriving stellar properties, distances, and reddenings to stars based on grids of stellar models constrained by photometric and astrometric data. We outline the statistical framework for deriving these quantities, its implementation, and various Galactic priors over the 3-D distribution of stars, stellar properties, and dust extinction (including $R_V$ variation). We establish a procedure to empirically calibrate MIST v1.2 isochrones by using open clusters to derive corrections to the effective temperatures and radii of the isochrones, which reduces systematic errors on the lower main sequence. We also describe and apply a method to estimate photometric offsets between stellar models and observed data using nearby, low-reddening field stars. We perform a series of tests on mock and real data to examine parameter recovery with MIST under different modeling assumptions, illustrating that brutus is able to recover distances and other stellar properties using optical to near-infrared photometry and astrometry. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/joshspeagle/brutus. |
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| spellingShingle | Deriving Stellar Properties, Distances, and Reddenings using Photometry and Astrometry with BRUTUS Speagle, Joshua S. Zucker, Catherine Beane, Angus Cargile, Phillip A. Dotter, Aaron Finkbeiner, Douglas P. Green, Gregory M. Johnson, Benjamin D. Schlafly, Edward F. Bonaca, Ana Conroy, Charlie Eadie, Gwendolyn Eisenstein, Daniel J. Goodman, Alyssa A. Han, Jiwon Jesse Kamdar, Harshil M. Naidu, Rohan Rix, Hans-Walter Saydjari, Andrew K. Ting, Yuan-Sen Zelko, Ioana A. Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We present brutus, an open source Python package for quickly deriving stellar properties, distances, and reddenings to stars based on grids of stellar models constrained by photometric and astrometric data. We outline the statistical framework for deriving these quantities, its implementation, and various Galactic priors over the 3-D distribution of stars, stellar properties, and dust extinction (including $R_V$ variation). We establish a procedure to empirically calibrate MIST v1.2 isochrones by using open clusters to derive corrections to the effective temperatures and radii of the isochrones, which reduces systematic errors on the lower main sequence. We also describe and apply a method to estimate photometric offsets between stellar models and observed data using nearby, low-reddening field stars. We perform a series of tests on mock and real data to examine parameter recovery with MIST under different modeling assumptions, illustrating that brutus is able to recover distances and other stellar properties using optical to near-infrared photometry and astrometry. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/joshspeagle/brutus. |
| title | Deriving Stellar Properties, Distances, and Reddenings using Photometry and Astrometry with BRUTUS |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02227 |