This page provides some programs developed by members of the institute. The programs can be used for scientific purposes. The licence conditions are listed in the individual README-files of the software packages.
McLuster
by Andreas Küpper
Description
McLuster is a tool to make a star cluster. The code generates a table of cluster stars which can also be used as input for Nbody codes.
Online Dokumentation: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~akuepper/mcluster/mcluster.html
A recent version can also be found at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~akuepper/mcluster/mcluster.html
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optimal_sampling
by Jan Pflamm-Altenburg
Description
The routine optimal_sampling allows to draw stellar masses from an IMF such that the IMF is optimally sampled without stochastic fluctuations.../../~akuepper/mcluster/mcluster.html
bhint
by Ulf Löckmann
Description
bhint is a post-Newtonian, high-precision integrator for stellar systems surrounding a super-massive black hole.
Further Information
Löckmann, U., & Baumgardt, H. 2008 MNRAS, 384, 32
"Tracing intermediate-mass black holes in the Galactic Centre"
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statpl
by Thomas Maschberger
Description
statpl is a program which estimates the parameter of power-law distributed data and calculates goodness-of-fit tests for them.
Further Information
Thomas Maschberger & Pavel Kroupa, 2009, MNRAS, accepted
"Estimators for the exponent and upper limit, and goodness-of-fit tests for (truncated) power-law distributions"
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Plumix
by Ladislav Subr
Description
Plumix is a small package for generating mass segregated star clusters. Its output can be directly used as input initial conditions for NBODY4 or NBODY6 code
Further Information
Subr, Kroupa & Baumgardt, 2008, MNRAS accepted; astro-ph/0801.2768
"A new method to create initially mass segregated star clusters in virial equilibrium"
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mkj_libs
by Manuel Metz
Description
mkj_libs provides a set of helper routines (vector operations, astrometry, statistical analysis of spherical data) for the main plane-fitting and analysis tools.
Online Dokumentation: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mmetz/py/docs/mkj_libs/index.html
Further Information
Metz, M.; Kroupa, P. & Jerjen, H., 2007, MNRAS, 374, 1125
"The spatial distribution of the Milky Way and Andromeda satellite galaxies"
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Libimf
by Jan Pflamm-Altenburg
Description
Libimf provides a collection of programming functions based on the general IMF-algorithm by Pflamm-Altenburg & Kroupa (2006).
Further Information
Pflamm-Altenburg, J. & Kroupa, P., 2006, MNRAS, accepted
"A highly abnormal massive-star mass function in the Orion Nebula cluster and the dynamical decay of trapezia systems"
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Catena
by Jan Pflamm-Altenburg
Description
Catena integrates the orbits of an ensemble of stars using the chain-regularization method (Mikkola & Aarseth) with an embedded Runge-Kutta integration method of 9(8)th order (Prince & Dormand).
Further Information
Pflamm-Altenburg, J. & Kroupa, P., 2006, MNRAS, accepted
"A highly abnormal massive-star mass function in the Orion Nebula cluster and the dynamical decay of trapezia systems"