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Table 2

Parameters of the mass distributions in different spectral type intervals.

Spectral # M1 σ1 M2 σ2 M3
type stars (M) (M) (M) (M) (M)

B6–B7 135 4.02 0.51 4.24 0.64 4.09
B8 182 3.43 0.54 3.52 0.54 3.44
B9–B9.5 328 2.99 0.45 3.08 0.55 2.99
A0 193 2.57 0.36 2.66 0.42 2.59
A1 193 2.51 0.38 2.59 0.35 2.53
A2 194 2.47 0.43 2.50 0.41 2.50
A3 170 2.27 0.38 2.39 0.45 2.30
A4–A6 179 2.11 0.31 2.24 0.43 2.14
A7–A9 180 1.93 0.31 1.99 0.49 1.93
F0–F2 194 1.68 0.26 1.84 0.39 1.74

Notes. The values M1 and σ1 are the center and sigma of the Gaussian fit of the distribution, M2 and σ2 are the mean and the standard deviation of the distribution and M3 its median value.

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