Convergence towards the best fit of a power law through the MLE and KSD method for the global getsf bound core catalogue without the free-free sources. The left vertical dashed line highlights the first minimal KS_D (in blue), occurring at x_min = 1.40 M_⊙. The right vertical dashed line highlights the completeness limits at x_min = 1.64 M_⊙. The orange curve shows the exponent of the power-law fit of the high-mass tail of the CMF as a function of x_min.