Description
Examining the spatial properties of galaxies’ stellar and gas components provide crucial insights into the impact of galactic environment has on stellar evolution. Star cluster populations are ideal to study this issue, as they showcase how these properties vary with galactic position, evolutionary stage and mass. To this end, we have characterised the spatial distributions of star cluster population in nearby face-on grand spiral galaxy NGC628 using a combined JWST/HST catalogue and the statistical tool INDICATE. We have also - for the first time - directly compared the spatial behaviour of still embedded clusters with that of their natal clouds, made possible with our newly developed novel statistical tool CORRELATE. In this talk we will discuss our results, which suggest a scenario where the spatial distribution of the cluster population is influenced by that of the clouds, but is diluted and mostly erased over the next 100Myrs as clusters are fully disrupted or dissolved by stellar depletion, velocity shearing and/or gravitational interactions.
