Explanatory note for the model spectra (from P. Hammersley) ___________________________________________________________ The models are interpolated in Te, log g and metallicity. Where measured values for log g and [Fe/H] exist these are used. All of the files have a fits like header which give the parameters used for generating the models. The data is then given in 4 columns : wavelength in microns flux in W/m2/micron (it really is this time) flux in Jansky error percentage error in flux. As the Kurucz models are poorly sampled longwards of 10 microns, data is interpolated in f(lambda)*lambda^4 space to give points at 0.25 microns between 10 and 20 microns; at 0.5 microns between 20 and 40 microns and every micron between 40 and 160 microns. In principle the curves could be extrapolated to 260 microns in the same way. The models beyond about 7 microns are basically continuum models. So there is no SiO. The Hydrogen lines disappear at about 5 microns. The errors are considered to be made up of two parts: a) A global multiplier for each spectrum coming from the error in the absolute calibration then normalizing the spectrum to a filter magnitude. This is called ERRFILT which I've put as 3% for all stars. b) The errors in temperature, log g and [Fe/H] which will alter the shape of the spectrum. In order to estimate the effects models have been run changing the temperature by 3%, log g by 0.5 and metallicity by 0.3 and then the percentage error caused by each change has been calculated. In fact, these changes are in general larger than the real error in these values. The final errors were found by summing the individual errors in quadrature. Currently, the individual errors values are rather ad hoc and should be refined further. The final errors calculated seem reasonable or even optimistic (despite the fact the individual errors are probably pessimistic). However, there is nothing in the errors for errors in the model tables.