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Caption: Figure 7.
Age distribution averaged over the indicated intervals of mass for the Antennae clusters (data points) and for Model 1 (lines). In this model, clusters have a power-law initial mass function, a constant formation rate, and sudden mass-dependent disruption. The dashed and solid lines were computed for less massive and more massive clusters, respectively, from Equations (7) and (B3)–(B5) with τ * = 5 × 10 7 yr and k = 0.62.
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