Star clusters are invaluable tracers of the Galactic components and the discovery and characterization of low-mass stellar systems can be used to appraise their prevailing disruption mechanisms and time scales .
However , owing to the significant foreground contamination , high extinction , and still uncharted interfaces of the underlying Milky Way components , objects at low Galactic latitudes are notoriously difficult to characterize .
Here , we present the first spectroscopic campaign to identify the chemodynamical properties of the low-latitude star cluster FSR 1716 .
While its photometric age and distance are far from settled , the presence of RR Lyrae variables indicates a rather old cluster variety .
Using medium-resolution ( R \sim 10600 ) calcium triplet ( CaT ) spectroscopy obtained with the wide-field , multi-fibre AAOmega instrument , we identified six member candidates with a mean velocity of -30 km s ^ { -1 } and a velocity dispersion of 2.5 \pm 0.9 km s ^ { -1 } .
The latter value implies a dynamic mass of \sim 1.3 \times 10 ^ { 4 } M _ { \odot } , typical of a low-mass globular cluster .
Combined with our derived CaT metallicity of -1.38 \pm 0.20 dex , this object is finally confirmed as an old , metal-poor globular cluster .