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.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511212,
title = {Observational Evidence of Accretion Disk-Caused Jet Precession in Galactic Nuclei},
author = {Ju-Fu Lu and Bo-Yan Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511212},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters