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Sebastian Florian Hönig (born 1978) is a German astronomer, Professor of Observational & Computational Astrophysics (and Head of School elect) 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 (AGN), dust tori and dusty winds. He received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) 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 (2014) and an ERC Starting Grant (2015) 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 (ESO). Hönig is Co-Investigator of GRAVITY+, an upgrade to the GRAVITY instrument. He is member of the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) 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 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 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 8 August 2002 99861 Tscharnuter 29 July 2002 99862 Kenlevin 23 July 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 18 August 2002 17 August 2002 27 August 2002 14 July 2002 29 July 2002 29 July 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 August 2002 8 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See also List of minor planet discoverers

References

External links Homepage of Sebastian Hönig Identification of a new short-period comet near the sun, Sebastian F. Hoenig, arXiv:astro-ph/0509168 MPEC 2002-O45 : COMET C/2002 O4 (HOENIG) SOHO Mission Discovers Rare Comet Astronomers Spot New Halley-Like Comet SOHO's new catch: its first officially periodic comet