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Evolution of half-mass radius rh of ProCeps (solid lines) and lower mass stars (dotted lines) for clusters of mass Mecl = 100 M⊙, 400 M⊙, 1600 M⊙ and 6400 M⊙. The clusters orbit the galaxy at Rg = 8 kpc and have metallicity Z = 0.014. The vertical yellow line shows the time of gas expulsion td. The least massive clusters (Mecl = 100 M⊙; cyan) mass segregate their ProCeps before td, which results in ProCeps being more concentrated than lower mass stars. The following gas expulsion then preferentially unbinds stars from outskirts of the cluster, which are lower mass stars, resulting in a cluster that contains disproportionately more ProCeps. In contrast, the more massive clusters do not mass segregate before td, so the stellar loss due to gas expulsion affects ProCeps in a similar way to lower mass stars.
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