Abstract
We examine the distribution of axis ratios of a large sample of disk galaxies hosting type 2 AGNs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and compare it with a well-defined control sample of non-active galaxies. We find them significantly different, where the type 2 AGNs show both an excess of edge-on objects and deficit of round objects. This systematical bias can not be explained by a nuclear obscurer oriented randomly with respect to the stellar disk. However, a nuclear obscurer coplanar with the stellar disk also does not fit the data very well. By assuming that the nuclear obscurer having an opening angle of ~60 degree, we find the observed axis ratio distribution can be nicely reproduced by a mean tilt angle of ~30 degree between the nuclear obscurer and the stellar disk.
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