NGC 5904 (M 5)

Distance from Sun: 7480 ± 60 pc
Galactocentric distance: 6270 ± 20 pc
V-band magnitude: 5.95 ± 0.03
Mass: 3.92 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.8 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 5.60 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.76 ± 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