NGC 4372

Distance from Sun: 5710 ± 210 pc
Galactocentric distance: 7220 ± 40 pc
V-band magnitude: 7.37 ± 0.05
Mass: 1.9 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 2.0 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 8.34 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.86 ± 0.18


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