Abstract
The last tidal encounter between M82 and M81 about 500 Myr ago had a major impact on what was probably an otherwise normal, quiescent, disk galaxy. It caused a concentrated burst of star formation activity, as evidenced by the peak in the age distribution of the cluster sample in M82’s fossil starburst region ‘B’ (de Grijs et al. 2001; cf. Figure 1), which decreased rapidly within a few hundred Myr.
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De Grijs, R. (2002). Environmental Effects on the Star Formation Mode in M82. In: Sauvage, M., Stazińska, G., Schaerer, D. (eds) The Evolution of Galaxies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3311-3_21
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