Linking the central engine to the jet properties in radio loud AGN

TL;DR

This study investigates the relationship between black hole mass and jet properties in radio-loud AGN, finding that more massive black holes tend to produce faster and more luminous jets based on observational data.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the correlation between black hole mass and jet characteristics using multi-wavelength observations and detailed host galaxy analysis.

Findings

More massive black holes are associated with faster jets.

Black hole mass correlates with jet luminosity.

Preliminary results support a link between black hole and jet properties.

Abstract

We explore the connection between the black hole mass and its relativistic jet for a sample of radio-loud AGN (z < 1), in which the relativistic jet parameters are well estimated by means of long term monitoring with the 14m Mets\"ahovi millimeter wave telescope and the Very Long Base-line Array (VLBA). NIR host galaxy images taken with the NOTCam on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and retrieved from the 2MASS all-sky survey allowed us to perform a detailed surface brightness decomposition of the host galaxies in our sample and to estimate reliable black hole masses via their bulge luminosities. We present early results on the correlations between black hole mass and the relativistic jet parameters. Our preliminary results suggest that the more massive the black hole is, the faster and the more luminous jet it produces.