Fig. 8.
![Mass function of identified GMCs. The solid line is the fit to the data (for M > 105 M⊙) with the truncated power law function, $N(M^{\,\prime }>M) = N_0 [(\frac{M}{M_0})^{\gamma +1}-1]$, with the slope γ = −1.25 ± 0.07, the maximum mass M0 = (5.92 ± 0.63) × 107 M⊙, and N0 = 54.4 ± 28.2.](https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/pasj/69/2/10.1093_pasj_psw122/4/pasj_69_2_18_f12.jpeg?Expires=1750102223&Signature=Ol3OaCr3IdjGmBTWb8hOU5-o9xea0bknSkaqL29UYHIRsJuBCqqgHsoQ3J-nrw9Qgpu68skkCbdQ~0ZEI3f46PdGwjTk2yJm92LuqDmXtzhmBLrVnHQU10ENBpdfhtSUQavJmAhy~I5otdawpIFyKfJ6UKhUGxEeV1~IVAL2T3jNlyAb81nfB97zrkujy2rVHO3Km~q5W64Abi~-cRMqQB0H4xKu5Og9o5CkiA5YydLF1ZvwySFA7LwQeJCm0jHuL0zQi2RqedpMfJSjQHSbeQij~GFndp0LdyTOkmnqHzo55dFw~ryTifu2PbDkkkfhZ3Ifz77WYHPrTa6ewPdyVg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Mass function of identified GMCs. The solid line is the fit to the data (for M > 105 M⊙) with the truncated power law function, |$N(M^{\,\prime }>M) = N_0 [(\frac{M}{M_0})^{\gamma +1}-1]$|, with the slope γ = −1.25 ± 0.07, the maximum mass M0 = (5.92 ± 0.63) × 107 M⊙, and N0 = 54.4 ± 28.2.
