NGC 6397

Distance from Sun: 2480 ± 20 pc
Galactocentric distance: 6010 ± 20 pc
V-band magnitude: 5.45 ± 0.04
Mass: 8.24 · 104 M
M/L ratio: 1.4 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 3.16 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.32 ± 0.13


Image Credit: ESO


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