A&A 624, A42 (2019) Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834600 & c F. Kamali et al. 2019 Astrophysics Accretion disk versus jet orientation in H2O megamaser galaxies F. Kamali1;?, C. Henkel1,2, S. Koyama3,1, C. Y. Kuo4, J. J. Condon5, A. Brunthaler1, M. J. Reid6, J. E. Greene7, K. M. Menten1, C. M. V. Impellizzeri5,8, J. A. Braatz5, E. Litzinger9,10, and M. Kadler9 1 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany e-mail:
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[email protected] 2 Astron. Dept., King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 3 Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, PO Box 23-141, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 4 Physics Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 70, Lien-Hai Rd, Kaosiung City 80424, Taiwan 5 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA 6 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 7 Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 8 Joint ALMA Office, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile 9 Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Campus Hubland Nord, Emil-Fischer-Str. 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany 10 Dr. Remeis-Observatory, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle, Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049 Bamberg, Germany Received 7 November 2018 / Accepted 11 February 2019 ABSTRACT Context. An essential part of the paradigm describing active galactic nuclei is the alignment between the radio jet and the associated rotation axis of the sub-pc accretion disks.