The Discovery of Polarized Water Vapor Megamaser Emission in a Molecular Accretion Disk

Jack F. Gallimore, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Samaneh Aghelpasand +3

For the first time in an extragalactic source, we detect linearly polarized water maser emission associated with the molecular accretion disk of NGC 1068. The position angles of th…