Abstract
We present MUSE observations of the debated ultra faint stellar system Crater. We spectroscopically confirm 26 member stars of this system via radial velocity measure-ments. We derive the systematic instrumental velocity uncertainty of MUSE spectra to be 2.27kms−1. This new dataset increases the confirmed member stars of Crater by a factor of 3. One out of three bright blue stars and a fainter blue star just above the main-sequence-turn-off are also found to be likely members of the system. The ob-servations reveal that Crater has a systemic radial velocity of vsys = 148.18+1.08−1.15 kms−1, whereas the most likely velocity dispersion of this system is σv = 2.04+2.19−1.06 kms−1. The total dynamical mass of the system, assuming dynamical equilibrium is thenMtot = 1.50+4.9−1.2 · 105M implying a mass-to-light ratio of M/LV=8.52+28.0−6.5 M/L, which is consistent with a purely baryonic stellar population within its errors and no sig-nificant evidence for the presence dark matter was found. We also find evidence for a velocity gradient in the radial velocity distribution. We conclude that our findings strongly support that Crater is a faint intermediate-age outer halo globular cluster and not a dwarf galaxy.