ULySS: A Full Spectrum Fitting Package
Mina Koleva, Philippe Prugniel, Antoine Bouchard, Yue Wu

TL;DR
ULySS is a user-friendly, flexible software package for full-spectrum fitting of stellar spectra, enabling accurate determination of stellar parameters and stellar population histories through advanced modeling and error analysis.
Contribution
The paper introduces ULySS, a comprehensive spectral fitting package that simultaneously models continuum shape and line profiles, improving parameter estimation accuracy.
Findings
Inclusion of a multiplicative polynomial improves continuum modeling.
Accurate line-spread function is crucial for matching observed spectra.
Monte-Carlo simulations help assess solution validity for complex models.
Abstract
Aims. We provide an easy-to-use full-spectrum fitting package and explore its applications to (i) the determination of the stellar atmospheric parameters and (ii) the study of the history of stellar populations. Methods. We developed ULySS, a package to fit spectroscopic observations against a linear combination of non-linear model components convolved with a parametric line-of-sight velocity distribution. The minimization can be either local or global, and determines all the parameters in a single fit. We use chi2 maps, convergence maps and Monte-Carlo simulations to study the degeneracies, local minima and to estimate the errors. Results. We show the importance of determining the shape of the continuum simultaneously to the other parameters by including a multiplicative polynomial in the model (without prior pseudo-continuum determination, or rectification of the spectrum). We also…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpectroscopy and Laser Applications · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies · Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
