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When creating a subscriber, you tell it what function to call with each new message received. Since ROS messages may be be very large, we want to pass by-reference rather than by-value. To accomplish this, ROS uses smart pointers (in particular boost::shared_ptr in ROS1), which are a modern C++ improvement over regular old pointers.
As for the Const part - see this other ROS Answers
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