Comparison between core mass functions from the CuTEx starless and protostellar source samples based on different choices of dust temperatures. Solid straight lines are linear fits to the high-mass ends, and dashed straight lines show the slope found from the same fit to the total sample (starless plus protostellar). a: same as in Fig. 9; b: starless cores with a constant dust temperature of 12.5 K; c: starless cores with temperature assigned based on a Monte Carlo procedure (see text); d: protostellar cores with a constant dust temperature of 12.5 K; e: protostellar cores with three different temperatures assigned based on the core location (see text); f: protostellarcores with temperature assigned based on a Monte Carlo procedure (see text). In panels c and f, the solid line histogram is the median (second quartile) distribution, the long-dashed line histogram is the first quartile distribution and the short-dashed line the third quartile distribution. In the other panels, errorbars indicate the Poissonian standard deviations of counts in each bin. Also indicated in each panel is the α index resulting from the linear fits, where dN∕dM ~ M^α.