On the basis of multislit spectroscopy of 180 stars in the ionising cluster
of 30 Doradus we present reliable radial velocities for 55 stars. We calculate
a radial velocity dispersion of ~35 km/s for the cluster and we analyse the
possible influence of spectroscopic binaries in this rather large velocity
dispersion. We use numerical simulations to show that the observations are
consistent with the hypothesis that all the stars in the cluster are binaries,
and the total mass of the cluster is ~5E+5 solar masses. A simple test shows
only marginal evidence for dynamical mass segregation which if present is most
likely not due to dynamical relaxation.Comment: accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysic