Bibcode
Cerviño, M.; Luridiana, V.
Bibliographical reference
The Eight Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics (Eds. M. Reyes-Ruiz & E. Vázquez-Semadeni) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 18, pp. 11-13 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2003
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Description
In this contribution we evaluate the minimal cluster mass for which the
effects of an incomplete sampling of the Initial Mass Function (IMF)
cannot be neglected. This minimal cluster mass corresponds to the
situation in which the integrated luminosity of the cluster modeled
equals the luminosity of the most luminous individual star included in
the model, and it takes values between 3×10^2 and 6×10^5 M[
scriptstyle sun ]depending on the age and the observed band. We show
different examples for young (t < 10 Myr) and old (t up to 10 Gyr)
stellar populations. We also make here a first release of the spectral
energy distribution (SED) from 160 mu m ( 1.8×10^12 Hz) to 25 keV
( 6.0×10^18 Hz) for star-forming regions with ages between 0.1 and
10 Myr, and metallicities between Z=0.001 and Z=0.040. The SEDs are
available at our WWW server and include the corresponding quantities for
the evaluation of sampling effects. These SEDs can be directly used to
obtain colors (including the X-rays ones), as input of photoionization
codes, or for chi(2}_{) fitting with observed data taking into account
the intrinsic uncertainty of the models due to the IMF sampling.