Cumulative mass function of the spectroscopic (orange continuous line, spec sample) and the photometric sample (purple continuous line, phot sample). In both cases, the masses were determined from SSP models by Maraston (2005). The scaling with the factor 3.5 was applied at log ₁₀ (M/M_⊙) = 6.6 (vertical arrow) where the slopes (dashed blue lines) of the cumulative functions are almost the same, resulting in the combined cumulative GC/UCD mass function (red dotted line). For comparison, the dashed thin orange and purple lines show the cumulative mass function of the spectroscopic and the photometric sample, respectively, where the masses have been calculated based on Bruzual & Charlot (2003). The black line represents the cumulative distribution of stripped nuclei as determined by Pfeffer et al. (2014), while the standard deviation area is colored in gray (see Sect. 6).