  We present archival high resolution X-ray imaging observations of 25 nearby
LINERs observed by ACIS on board Chandra. This sample builds on our previously
published proprietary and archival X-ray observations, and includes the
complete set of LINERs with published black hole masses and FIR luminosities
that have been observed by Chandra. Of the 82 LINERs observed by Chandra, 41
(50%) display hard nuclear cores consistent with an AGN. The nuclear 2-10 keV
luminosities of these AGN-LINERs range from ~ 2 X 10^38 ergs s^-1 to ~ 1 X
10^44 ergs s^-1. Reinforcing our previous work, we find a significant
correlation between the Eddington ratio, L bol/LEdd, and the far-IR (FIR)
luminosity, LFIR, as well as the IR brightness ratio, LFIR/LB in the host
galaxy of AGN-LINERs that extends over seven orders of magnitude in Lbol/LEdd.
Combining our AGN-LINER sample with galaxies from other AGN subclasses, we find
that this correlation is reinforced in the full sample of 129 AGN, extending
over almost nine orders of magnitude in Lbol/LEdd. Using archival and
previously published observations of the 6.2 mm PAH feature from the Infrared
Space Observatory (ISO), we find that it is unlikely that dust heating by the
AGN dominates the FIR luminosity in our sample of AGN. Our results may
therefore imply a fundamental link between the mass accretion rate (Mdot), as
measured by the Eddington ratio, and the star formation rate (SFR), as measured
by the FIR luminosity.
