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Stellar Clusters in NGC 1313: Evidence of Infant Mortality

Stellar Clusters in NGC 1313: Evidence of Infant Mortality

We present evidence that the infant mortality of stellar clusters is likely to be a major and very efficient process for the dissolution of young clusters in the spiral galaxy NGC 1313. Performing stellar PSF photometry on archival HST/ACS images of the galaxy, we find that a large fraction of …