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Caption: Fig. 18.
Size‐magnitude diagram for VCC 798 (dots) with old star cluster candidates (crosses) in five spiral galaxies—M81, M83, NGC 6946, M101, and M51 (Tables 3–7 in Chandar et al. 2004). Photometry for VCC 798 and the faint fuzzy selection box (dotted square) is the same as for Fig. 17. We also show M31 extended star clusters from Huxor et al. (2005; diamonds) and UCDs from Haşegan et al. (2005; asterisks). The dashed line represents a constant mean surface brightness, ﹩\mu _{V}=20﹩ mag arcsec−2. The dash‐dotted line represents the mass‐radius relation of ﹩M\propto R^{2.33}﹩ for star cluster complexes in M51 (Bastian et al. 2005). The spiral galaxies possess old star clusters that are similar in size and luminosity to the DSCs in our sample.
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