Radial profiles of representative star clusters in M51 compared with a stellar profile. The top left panel shows a star, and the other top panels show example V‐band images of four clusters from our sample. Each image is ﹩2\farcs 5\times 2\farcs 5﹩. Below each object image we have plotted (in arcseconds) its radial profile (solid line), with that of the star (dotted line) shown for comparison.