MCSED Documentation

Getting Started

• Overview
• Installation
  • Requirements
• MCSED Command-Line Options
• Specifying Parameters

Libraries and Input Information

• The Built-In Libraries
  • Filters
  • Stellar Libraries
  • Nebular Libraries
• Input Files
  • Required Columns
  • Photometry
    • Using Skelton et al. (2014)
    • General Case
  • Emission Lines
  • Absorption Line Indices
• Fitting Parameters
  • Dust Attenuation Laws
    • dust_law = ’calzetti’
    • dust_law = ’conroy’  or  ’cardelli’
    • dust_law = ’reddy’
    • dust_law = ’noll’
    • Other Attenuation Laws
  • Dust Emission
    • dust_em = ’DL07’
    • Other Laws for Dust Emission
  • Star Formation History
    • sfh = ’constant’
    • sfh = ’exponential’
    • sfh = ’double_powerlaw’
    • sfh = ’burst’
    • sfh = ’polynomial’
    • sfh = ’binned_lsfr’
    • Other SFR Prescriptions
  • Stellar Metallicity
  • Ionization Parameter
  • IGM Correction
  • ISM Corrections

Running MCSED and Understanding Outputs

• Running MCSED
  • Live Mode
  • Test Mode
  • Parallel Mode
• Outputs
  • Summary File (parameters = True)
  • Settings File (settings = True)
  • Posterior Probability Distributions (fitposterior = True)
  • Full 3D Posterior Probability Distributions (fullposterior = True)
  • Best Fit SEDs (bestfitspec = True)
  • Observed and Modeled Flux Densities (fluxdensity = True)
  • Observed and Modeled Emission Line Fluxes (lineflux = True)
  • Observed and Modeled Absorption Indices (absindx = True)
  • Sample Plot (sample plot = True)
  • SSP template spectra (template spec = True)
  • Triangle Plots (triangle Plot = True)
• Summary of Important Variables

References

• References