Detection of obscured broad-line regions in four Seyfert 2 galaxies

We present spectropolarimetric observations of the nuclei of four Seyfert 2 galaxies, Mrk 477, Mrk 1210, NGC 7212, and Was 49b. The data, covering the spectral range 4600-7400 A at moderate resolution, were obtained with the CCD spectrograph/polarimeter attached to the 3 m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory. They show clear evidence for broad components of Hα and Hβ emission lines in the polarized flux spectra of these objects, similar to those observed in NGC 1068 and four other previously known obscured Seyfert 1 galaxies reported by Miller & Goodrich