and as a function of (H − K)_limit for 5000 realizations of the bulge dataset. The solid lines show the median curves, the shaded regions represent the 1 − σ scatter from the 5000 realizations, and the dashed lines mark the input values β_low and β_high of the slopes. Upper panels: and for a single-slope reddening vector with slopes 1.0 (left) and 1.5 (right). Bottom panels: same distributions but for broken extinction laws, with slopes of 1.5 at low-extinction and 1.0 and high-extinction, and breaks located at A_K = 0.4 mag (left) and A_K = 1.5 mag (right). The blue line indicates the average value of the slope if LinES is applied to the whole range of A_V.