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Stellar Age and Mass Determination

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We outline a Bayesian method to determine stellar ages and masses from observationally derived surface luminosities and effective temperatures. We then illustrate the procedure with two test stars.

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  1. Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, Sauverny, Switzerland

    N. Mowlavi & L. Eyer

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  1. N. Mowlavi
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Correspondence to N. Mowlavi .

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  1. , Department of Statistics, Universidad Nacional Educacion, C/Juan del Rosal, 16 Despacho-U Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Luis Manuel Sarro

  2. , Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 Chemin des Maillettes, Sauverny, 1290, Switzerland

    Laurent Eyer

  3. European Space Astronomy Centre, P.O. Box, 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, E-28691, Spain

    William O'Mullane

  4. , Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven, 3001, Belgium

    Joris De Ridder

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Mowlavi, N., Eyer, L. (2012). Stellar Age and Mass Determination. In: Sarro, L., Eyer, L., O'Mullane, W., De Ridder, J. (eds) Astrostatistics and Data Mining. Springer Series in Astrostatistics, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3323-1_20

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