What does an asterisk * before an address mean in x86-64 AT&T assembly?

Question

What does the following line mean:

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401147: ff 24 c5 80 26 40 00    jmpq   *0x402680(,%rax,8)
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What does the asterisk in front of the

Answer 1

It's a jump to an address contained in memory. The address is stored in memory at address rax*8+0x402680, where rax is the current rax value (when this instruction executes).