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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 The observations
3 Exploration of the parameters which determine the disruption time
4 Input parameters for modeling the cluster population of M 51
5 Analytical model for generating a cluster population
6 Fitting observed age-mass distribution to predictions
7 Implication of the derived disruption time
8 Conclusions
References

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