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Fig. 5
Mass function of companions to stars in the OB sample (dashed) compared to the CMF as it was constructed from individual images under consideration of the brightness-separation bias following the Salpeter law (solid, see text). Overplotted as dotted line is the Salpeter-like mass function but with an exponent Γ of –0.001.
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