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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 3.

This figure shows, in red, the F150W2 surface brightness profile extracted from the central galaxy in A402-BCG along a wedge as shown in the inset. For comparison, we show the galaxies with the largest cores measured to date, Holm 15A (K. Mehrgan et al. 2019) and IC 1101 (B. T. Dullo et al. 2017), and a sample of cored galaxies from B. T. Dullo (2019). All profiles have been corrected for cosmological dimming and k-corrected to the rest-frame V band assuming an old stellar population. The vertical red dotted line shows the location of the break radius measured from the two-dimensional fit described in Appendix A.1. This figure highlights the similarities between IC 1101 and A402-BCG, and suggests that A402-BCG likely harbors an ultramassive black hole.

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