[Mesa-users] Errors on bolometric corrections

[Rob Farmer]

Bolometric corrections themselves don't usually ship with errors, they are
just a convolution of the filter response curve with a model of a spectrum.

If you want an error you need to know the error on the spectra, which is
the error in your logT, g and M/H. Then you could sample the bolometric
corrections over the error in input parameters to say what the error in the
BC's are

Rob

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 12:52, Aaron Dotter via Mesa-users <
mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> What is responsible for these errors?
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 15:40 Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm interested in using MESA to study main-sequence stars and I'd like to
>> output bolometric corrections with error bars.
>>
>> I checked through the colors module (I'm using version 12778) and as far
>> as I can tell there is no way to output errors. I also checked the paper
>> the BCs are taken from and they don't report errors.
>>
>> Is there any way to get MESA to estimate the errors on the bolometric
>> corrections?
>>
>> If not, can someone recommend some other BC code/tables that I can use to
>> produce BCs with errors using MESA output?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
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