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JWST Observations of the Double Nucleus in NGC 4486B: Possible Evidence for a Recent Binary SMBH Merger and Recoil

  • Authors: Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Monica Valluri, Shashank Dattathri, Tatsuya Akiba, Fazeel Mahmood Khan, Matthew A. Taylor, Haruka Yoshino, Solveig Thompson, Ann-Marie Madigan, Frank C. van den Bosch, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Patrick Côté, Laura Ferrarese, Michael J. Drinkwater, Holger Baumgardt, Misty C. Bentz, Kristen Dage, Eric W. Peng, Somya Jha, Andrea V. Macciò, Chengze Liu, Tyrone E. Woods

Behzad Tahmasebzadeh et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

The top panel presents the projected luminosity density of NGC 4486B (black dots) derived from the ACS F850LP image along with various models (see the text for details). The bottom panel displays the deprojected 3D luminosity density profiles along the semimajor axis. The vertical dashed line indicates the PSF FWHM of the ACS F850LP image.

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