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A Kiloparsec-scale Stellar Cavity in the Center of A402-BCG May Be Caused by Dynamic Interactions with an Ultramassive Black Hole

  • Authors: Michael McDonald, Gourav Khullar, David Lagattuta, Guillaume Mahler, Shashank Dattathri, Jose M. Diego, Alastair C. Edge, Benjamin Floyd, Michael D. Gladders, Scott A. Hughes, Mathilde Jauzac, Nader Khonji, Gavin Leroy, Richard Massey, Mireia Montes, Priyamvada Natarajan, Michael Reefe, Keren Sharon, Frank van den Bosch, Stepane Werner, Adi Zitrin

Michael McDonald et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Multiwavelength observations of the central galaxy in A402. Left: three-color image of the cluster core based on data from HST and JWST (north is up, east is left). Upper right: zoom-in of the inner 2″ × 2″ of the central galaxy in A402. This zoomed image reveals a 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩25 wide cavity in surface brightness, as well as a bright point source on the western edge of the depression. Lower right: images of the inner region of the central galaxy in five different filters at four different epochs. The point source (depicted with a white pointer in all panels) is brightest in the redder JWST band, where the combination of the bright point source and degraded PSF obscures the presence of any cavity.

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