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IMF biases and how to correct them
J. Maíz Apellániz, L. Úbeda, N. R. Walborn +1
We discuss possible sources of biases in the determination of the initial mass function (IMF) introduced by the binning of the data, the uncertainty in the determinations of masses…
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Numerical biases on IMF determinations created by binning
J. Maíz Apellániz, L. Úbeda
We detect and quantify significant numerical biases in the determination of the slope of power laws with Salpeter (or similar) indices from uniformly-binned data using chi-square m…