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Observational evidence of jet precession in galactic nuclei caused by accretion disks

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 635, Issue 1, Pages L17-L20

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/499333

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accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies : active; galaxies : jets

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We show that the observational data of extragalactic radio sources tend to support the theoretical relationship between the jet precession period and the optical luminosity of the sources, as predicted by the model in which an accretion disk causes the central black hole to precess.

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