NGC 5272 (M 3)

Distance from Sun: 10180 ± 80 pc
Galactocentric distance: 12090 ± 60 pc
V-band magnitude: 6.39 ± 0.04
Mass: 4.09 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.6 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 5.47 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -1.01 ± 0.12


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