Analysis of the core mass function (CMF). The synthetic Salpeter-like distribution used as input is marked by the grey-shadowed histogram. The blue and green line histograms describe the CMF recovered using the ALMA 12 m-alone and the ALMA MACF, respectively. The black dashed line displays the expected Salpeter dependence (α = 1.35), while the dotted line is the one that better describes the much shallower, top-heavy slope (α = 1.18) observed by the interferometer-only