CMFs for the prestellar (in blue) and protostellar (in red) cores in W43. CMFs are represented in the form of a complementary cumulative distribution function (C-CDF) fitted with the MLE method implemented in the powerlaw package (Alstott et al. 2014). Dashed lines represent the fit made above the 1.6 M_⊙ completeness limit (black vertical line) with single power laws whose slopes are indicated. x_min values are indicated and the fit above x_min is shown in dotted line for the protostellar CMF (slope of α_fit,pro,2 = −1.22 ± 0.23). The canonical Salpeter slope of the IMF (−1.35 on this form) is represented with a dashed purple line.