Then, only high mass white dwarfs contribute to the integrals in Eq. The solid line is again the distribution according to the standard case. As expected, changing beta and thus the influence of dotM modifies the parent distribution considerably. This is also indicated by the thin line resulting from calculations, where the dotM-P law according to Iben et al. For details, see text.
All graphs remain well within the statistical uncertainties of the standard distribution.
Thus, the choice of alpha and gamma is not critical. 4- exponent alpha and the technical selection function exponent gamma .