On The Relation Between the AGN Jet and Accretion Disk Emissions
  Active galactic nuclei jets are detected via their radio and/or gamma-ray
emissions while the accretion disks are detected by their optical and UV
radiation. Observations of the radio and optical luminosities show a strong
correlation between the two luminosities. However, part of this correlation is
due to the redshift or distances of the sources that enter in calculating the
luminosities from the observed fluxes and part of it could be due to the
differences in the cosmological evolution of luminosities. Thus, the
determination of the intrinsic correlations between the luminosities is not
straightforward. It is affected by the observational selection effects and
other factors that truncate the data, sometimes in a complex manner (e.g.
Antonucci (2011) and Pavildou et al. (2010)). In this paper we describe methods
that allow us to determine the evolution of the radio and optical luminosities,
and determine the true intrinsic correlation between the two luminosities. We
find a much weaker correlation than observed and sub-linear relations between
the luminosities. This has a significant implication for jet and accretion disk
physics.
