A possible far-ultraviolet flux-dependent core mass function in NGC 6357

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Table 3

Power index, α = −d log(dN∕dM)∕d log(M), of the CMFs.

	Quiescent area			Active area

Sample	PyMC fit	ML	Number of	PyMC fit	ML	Number of
			datapoints			datapoints
All cores	2.4 ± 0.2	2.1 ± 0.2	57	1.9 ± 0.1	1.7 ± 0.2	48
Protostellar cores ^(a)	2.8 ± 0.5	2.4 ± 0.6	12	2.0 ± 0.2	1.9 ± 0.2	27
Pre-stellar cores ^(a)	2.3 ± 0.2	2.0 ± 0.2	45	1.8 ± 0.2	1.22 ± 0.05	21

Notes. Only cores with M ≥ 5 M_⊙ have been used. ^(a)See the text on the problems to obtain actual protostellar and pre-stellar samples.

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