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Recent HST/ACS images of M82 covering the entire galaxy have been used to detect star clusters. The galaxy is known to contain a young population (age <107 yr) in its starburst nucleus, surrounded by a post-starburst disk of age <109 yr. We detect more than 650 star clusters in this galaxy, nearly 400 of them in the post-starburst disk. These data have been used to derive the luminosity, mass and size functions separately for the young nuclear, and intermediate-age disk clusters. In this contribution, we discuss the evolutionary status of these clusters, especially, on the chances of some of these clusters surviving to become old globular clusters.
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Mayya, Y.D., Rosa-González, D., Rodríguez-Merino, L.H., Carrasco, L., Romano, R., Luna, A. (2009). Are the Compact Star Clusters in M82 Evolving Towards Globular Clusters?. In: New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics II. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87621-4_23
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