NGC 5986

Distance from Sun: 10540 ± 130 pc
Galactocentric distance: 4850 ± 80 pc
V-band magnitude: 7.70 ± 0.04
Mass: 2.99 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.7 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 4.35 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.59 ± 0.17


Image Credit: NASA, STScI, Wikisky


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