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