[Mesa-users] Errors on bolometric corrections

[Aaron Dotter]

Hi Jeremy

Worthey & Lee is an empirical calibration.  What MESA provides is not, as
Rob points out, so does not come with uncertainties attached.  They are
what they are.

Aaron


On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 15:52 Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> HI Aaron,
>
> I think it depends on whether the BCs are calibrated empirically e.g.
> using isochrone fitting or theoretically using atmosphere models but I
> would expect some uncertainty e.g. the Worthy and Lee code includes errors
> due to the former.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 9:50 AM Aaron Dotter <aaron.dotter at gmail.com>
> 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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