Sebastian F. Hönig

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Sebastian Florian Hönig is a German astronomer, Professor of Observational & Computational Astrophysics in the astronomy group of the University of Southampton School of Physics & Astronomy, and discoverer of minor planets and comets.

Career and research

Hönig works on the theory and observations of active galactic nuclei, dust tori and dusty winds. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn with work carried out in the Infrared Interferometry group at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. During this time he developed a new Radiative transfer to interpret infrared observations of AGN. In 2010, Hönig received a DFG Fellowship and moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara working with Robert Antonucci. During this time, he used VLTI observations of two Seyfert galaxies to show that dusty winds contribute significantly to the infrared radiation from these objects. Hönig received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and an ERC Starting Grant at the University of Southampton to study this phenomenon in more detail.
He is involved in the development of instruments for the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory. Hönig is Co-Investigator of GRAVITY+, an upgrade to the GRAVITY instrument. He is member of the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey using the 4MOST instrument at ESO's VISTA telescope and leads the AGN reverberation mapping sub-survey.

Comets and minor planets

Hönig has identified numerous asteroids and correctly identified the periodic comet P/2007 R5 despite it having no tail. On 22 July 2002, he discovered comet C/2002 O4 and is credited by the MPC with the discovery of 560 numbered minor planets during 2001–2008.
On 7 January 2004, the outer main-belt asteroid 51983 Hönig, discovered by Charles Juels and Paulo R. Holvorcem in 2001, was named in his honor.

List of discovered minor planets

68947 Brunofunk	8 August 2002
68948 Mikeoates	8 August 2002
73491 Robmatson	8 August 2002
78115 Skiantonucci	20 June 2002
78386 Deuzelur	8 August 2002
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78391 Michaeljäger	8 August 2002
78429 Baschek	18 August 2002
78430 Andrewpearce	18 August 2002
78433 Gertrudolf	29 August 2002
84011 Jean-Claude	23 July 2002
	8 August 2002
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99861 Tscharnuter	29 July 2002
99862 Kenlevin	23 July 2002
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142091 Omerblaes	29 August 2002
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	25 November 2002
145558 Raiatea	17 July 2006
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160259 Mareike	29 August 2002

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594032 Reyhersamuel	23 August 2004
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