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Description
We present a catalog of high-precision proper motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), based on Treasury Program observations with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) ACS/WFC camera. Our catalog contains 2454 objects in the magnitude range of 14.2<m_F775W_<24.7, thus probing the stellar masses of the ONC from ~0.4M{sun} down to ~0.02M{sun} over an area of ~550arcmin^2^. We provide a number of internal velocity dispersion estimates for the ONC that indicate a weak dependence on stellar location and mass. There is good agreement with the published velocity dispersion estimates, although nearly all of them (including ours at {sigma }_{v,x}_=0.94 and {sigma}_{v,y}_=1.25mas/yr) might be biased by the overlapping young stellar populations of Orion A. We identified four new ONC candidate runaways based on HST and the Gaia DR 2 data, all with masses less than ~1M{sun}. The total census of known candidate runaway sources is 10-one of the largest samples ever found in any Milky Way open star cluster. Surprisingly, none of them have tangential velocities exceeding 20km/s. If most of them indeed originated in the ONC, it may compel the re-examination of dynamical processes in very young star clusters. It appears that the mass function of the ONC is not significantly affected by the lost runaways.
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