Confidently Wrong: Why Ignoring Binaries Biases IMF Inference at Large Sample Sizes

arXiv:2603.15779 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-03-16 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-03-16

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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