10988( 1) - 04/03/06 11:24 - [ 1] HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVING PROGRAM 10988 Version: 1 Check-in Time: 03-Apr-2006 15:24:29 Title Classification of X-ray sources in M82 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Type Cycle Parallel Pointing Tolerance AR 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Investigators Contact? PI: Dr. Andreas Zezas Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory CoI: Dr. Almudena Alonso-Herrero Instituto de Estructura de la Materia N CoI: Mr. Roy Erik Kilgard Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical N Observatory CoI: Dr. Andrea H. Prestwich Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical N Observatory CoI: Dr. Martin J. Ward University of Leicester N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract We propose to analyze the data from the Heritage observation of the nearby star- forming galaxy M~82, together with supporting archival NICMOS data. Our primary goal is to study the association of the star-clusters with X-ray sources detected in the deep \chandra~ observations of M~82. This will allow us to address the nature of the X-ray sources, and their connection with star-formation and star-cluster properties. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------