NGC 5024 (M 53)

Distance from Sun: 18500 ± 180 pc
Galactocentric distance: 19000 ± 160 pc
V-band magnitude: 7.70 ± 0.04
Mass: 5.02 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.9 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 10.03 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -1.20 ± 0.11


Image Credit: Bernhard Hubl, http://www.astrophoton.com/


Observations

Cluster distance Proper motion Radial velocity
Orbit over the last 500 Myr
Velocity dispersion profile Rotation Color magnitude diagram
HST photometry Mass function MF slope

N-body Fits

Surface density Proper motions Radial velocities
Remnant fraction Mass-to-light ratio