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In this paper I review the results of our ongoing project to investigate the coupling between accretion disk and radio jet in galactic nuclei and stellar mass black holes. We find a good correlation between the UV bump luminosity and the radio luminosities of AGN, which improves upon the usual [OIII]/radio correlations. Taking mass and energy conservation in the jet/disk system into account we can successfully model the correlation for radio-loud and radio-weak quasars. We find that jets are comparable in power to the accretion disk luminosity, and the difference between radioloud and radio-weak may correspond to two natural stages of the relativistic electron distribution—assuming that radio weak quasars have jets as well. The distribution of flat- and steep-spectrum sources is explained by bulk Lorentz factors γj∼5−10. The absence of radio-loud quasars below a critical optical luminosity coincides with the FR I/FR II break and could be explained by a powerdependent, “closing” torus. This points towards a different type of obscuring torus in radio-loud host galaxies which might be a consequence of past mergers (e.g. by the temporary formation of a binary black-hole). Interaction of the jet with the closing torus might in principle also help to make a jet radio-loud. Turning to stellar-mass black holes we find that galactic jet sources can be described with the same coupled jet/disk model as AGN which is suggestive of some kind of universal coupling between jet and accretion disk around compact objects.
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Falcke, H. (1996). Black hole, jet, and disk: The universal engine. In: Kundt, W. (eds) Jets from Stars and Galactic Nuclei. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 471. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0102593
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