Dust in the wind — a new paradigm for inflow and outflow structures around supermassive black holes

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Peer reviewed articles (40)

Redefining the Torus: A Unifying View of AGNs in the Infrared and Submillimeter

Author(s): Sebastian F. Hönig
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 884/2, 2019, Page(s) 171, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4591

Parsec-scale Dusty Winds in Active Galactic Nuclei: Evidence for Radiation Pressure Driving

Author(s): James H. Leftley, Sebastian F. Hönig, Daniel Asmus, Konrad R. W. Tristram, Poshak Gandhi, Makoto Kishimoto, Marta Venanzi, David J. Williamson
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 886/1, 2019, Page(s) 55, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a0b

The Galaxy Activity, Torus and Outflow Survey (GATOS): II. Torus and polar dust emission in nearby Seyfert galaxies

Author(s): Alonso-Herrero, A.; García-Burillo, S.; Hoenig, S. F.; García-Bernete, I.; Almeida, C. Ramos; González-Martín, O.; López-Rodríguez, E.; Boorman, P. G.; Bunker, A. J.; Burtscher, L.; Combes, F.; Davies, R.; Díaz-Santos, T.; Gandhi, P.; García-Lorenzo, B.; Hicks, E. K. S.; Hunt, L. K.; Ichikawa, K.; Imanishi, M.; Izumi, T.; Labiano, A.; Levenson, N. A.; Packham, C.; Pereira-Santaella, M.; Ri
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 652, 2021, Page(s) A99, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141219

Resolving the Hot Dust Disk of ESO323-G77

Author(s): James H. Leftley, Konrad R. W. Tristram, Sebastian F. Hönig, Daniel Asmus, Makoto Kishimoto, Poshak Gandhi
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 912/2, 2021, Page(s) 96, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abee80

The spatially resolved broad line region of IRAS 09149−6206

Author(s): A. Amorim, M. Bauböck, W. Brandner, Y. Clénet, R. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, J. Dexter, A. Eckart, F. Eisenhauer, N. M. Förster Schreiber, F. Gao, P. J. V. Garcia, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, D. Gratadour, S. Hönig, M. Kishimoto, S. Lacour, D. Lutz, F. Millour, H. Netzer, T. Ott, T. Paumard, K. Perraut, G. Perrin, B. M. Peterson, P. O. Petrucci, O. Pfuhl, M. A. Prieto, D. Rouan, J. Shangguan, T. Shi
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 643, 2020, Page(s) A154, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039067

Binary AGNs simulations with radiation pressure reveal a new duty cycle, and a reduction of gravitational torque, through ‘minitori’ structures

Author(s): Williamson, Bösch, Hönig
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, tmp, 2022, Page(s) 16, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3792

Cold molecular gas and PAH emission in the nuclear and circumnuclear regions of Seyfert galaxies

Author(s): A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Pereira-Santaella, D. Rigopoulou, I. García-Bernete, S. García-Burillo, A. J. Domínguez-Fernández, F. Combes, R. I. Davies, T. Díaz-Santos, D. Esparza-Arredondo, O. González-Martín, A. Hernán-Caballero, E. K. S. Hicks, S. F. Hönig, N. A. Levenson, C. Ramos Almeida, P. F. Roche, D. Rosario
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 639, 2020, Page(s) A43, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037642

X-ray signatures of the polar dusty gas in AGN

Author(s): Jiren Liu, Sebastian F Hönig, Claudio Ricci, Stéphane Paltani
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490/3, 2019, Page(s) 4344-4352, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2908

The resolved size and structure of hot dust in the immediate vicinity of AGN

Author(s): J. Dexter, J. Shangguan, S. Hönig, M. Kishimoto, D. Lutz, H. Netzer, R. Davies, E. Sturm, O. Pfuhl, A. Amorim, M. Bauböck, W. Brandner, Y. Clénet, P. T. de Zeeuw, A. Eckart, F. Eisenhauer, N. M. Förster Schreiber, F. Gao, P. J. V. Garcia, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, D. Gratadour, A. Jiménez-Rosales, S. Lacour, F. Millour, T. Ott, T. Paumard, K. Perraut, G. Perrin, B. M. Peterson, P. O. Petrucci,
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, 2020, Page(s) A92, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936767

Hypercubes of AGN Tori (HYPERCAT). I. Models and Image Morphology

Author(s): Nikutta, Robert ; Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique ; Ichikawa, Kohei ; Levenson, N. A. ; Packham, Christopher ; Hönig, Sebastian F. ; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena
Published in: Astrophysical Journal, Volume 919, 2021, Page(s) 136, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac06a6

Modeling the Infrared Reverberation Response of the Circumnuclear Dusty Torus in AGNs: An Investigation of Torus Response Functions

Author(s): Triana Almeyda, Andrew Robinson, Michael Richmond, Robert Nikutta, Bryanne McDonough
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 891/1, 2020, Page(s) 26, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6aa1

PAH features within few hundred parsecs of active galactic nuclei

Author(s): J. J. Jensen, S. F. Hönig, S. Rakshit, A. Alonso-Herrero, D. Asmus, P. Gandhi, M. Kishimoto, A. Smette, K. R. W. Tristram
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470/3, 2017, Page(s) 3071-3094, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1447

Dusty Winds in Active Galactic Nuclei: Reconciling Observations with Models

Author(s): Sebastian F. Hönig, Makoto Kishimoto
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 838/2, 2017, Page(s) L20, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6838

Upholding the unified model for active galactic nuclei: VLT/FORS2 spectropolarimetry of Seyfert 2 galaxies

Author(s): C. Ramos Almeida, M. J. Martínez González, A. Asensio Ramos, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, S. F. Hönig, A. Alonso-Herrero, C. N. Tadhunter, O. González-Martín
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461/2, 2016, Page(s) 1387-1403, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1388

A mid-infrared statistical investigation of clumpy torus model predictions

Author(s): J. García-González, A. Alonso-Herrero, S. F. Hönig, A. Hernán-Caballero, C. Ramos Almeida, N. A. Levenson, P. F. Roche, O. González-Martín, C. Packham, M. Kishimoto
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470/3, 2017, Page(s) 2578-2598, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1361

IC 3639—A NEW BONA FIDE COMPTON-THICK AGN UNVEILED BY NuSTAR

Author(s): Peter G. Boorman, P. Gandhi, D. M. Alexander, A. Annuar, D. R. Ballantyne, F. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, M. Brightman, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, D. Farrah, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, S. F. Hönig, M. Koss, S. M. LaMassa, A. Masini, C. Ricci, G. Risaliti, D. Stern, W. W. Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 833/2, 2016, Page(s) 245, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/245

Cosmology with AGN dust time lags–simulating the new VEILS survey

Author(s): S. F. Hönig, D. Watson, M. Kishimoto, P. Gandhi, M. Goad, K. Horne, F. Shankar, M. Banerji, B. Boulderstone, M. Jarvis, M. Smith, M. Sullivan
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464/2, 2016, Page(s) 1693-1703, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2484

Embedded AGN and star formation in the central 80 pc of IC 3639

Author(s): J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, K. R. W. Tristram, S. Hönig, P. Gandhi, G. Weigelt
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 611, 2018, Page(s) A46, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731906

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Dynamical Modeling of the Broad-line Region

Author(s): Peter R. Williams, Anna Pancoast, Tommaso Treu, Brendon J. Brewer, Aaron J. Barth, Vardha N. Bennert, Tabitha Buehler, Gabriela Canalizo, S. Bradley Cenko, Kelsey I. Clubb, Michael C. Cooper, Alexei V. Filippenko, Elinor Gates, Sebastian F. Hoenig, Michael D. Joner, Michael T. Kandrashoff, Clifton David Laney, Mariana S. Lazarova, Weidong Li, Matthew A. Malkan, Jacob Rex, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Eri
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 866/2, 2018, Page(s) 75, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae086

Thick turbulent gas disks with magnetocentrifugal winds in active galactic nuclei

Author(s): B. Vollmer, M. Schartmann, L. Burtscher, F. Marin, S. Hönig, R. Davies, R. Goosmann
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 615, 2018, Page(s) A164, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731133

WISE view of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies: mid-infrared color and variability

Author(s): Suvendu Rakshit, Ansu Johnson, C S Stalin, Poshak Gandhi, Sebastian Hoenig
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3261

Determination of the size of the dust torus in H0507+164 through optical and infrared monitoring

Author(s): Amit Kumar Mandal, Suvendu Rakshit, Kshama S Kurian, C S Stalin, Blesson Mathew, Sebastian Hoenig, Poshak Gandhi, Ram Sagar, M B Pandge
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475/4, 2018, Page(s) 5330-5337, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty200

Resolving the Nuclear Obscuring Disk in the Compton-thick Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5643 with ALMA

Author(s): A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Pereira-Santaella, S. García-Burillo, R. I. Davies, F. Combes, D. Asmus, A. Bunker, T. Díaz-Santos, P. Gandhi, O. González-Martín, A. Hernán-Caballero, E. Hicks, S. Hönig, A. Labiano, N. A. Levenson, C. Packham, C. Ramos Almeida, C. Ricci, D. Rigopoulou, D. Rosario, E. Sani, M. J. Ward
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 859/2, 2018, Page(s) 144, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabe30

Spatially resolved rotation of the broad-line region of a quasar at sub-parsec scale

Author(s): Sturm, E.; Dexter, J.; Pfuhl, O.; Stock, M. R.; Davies, R. I.; Lutz, D.; Clénet, Y.; Eckart, A.; Eisenhauer, F.; Genzel, R.; Gratadour, D.; Hönig, S. F.; Kishimoto, M.; Lacour, S.; Millour, F.; Netzer, H.; Perrin, G.; Peterson, B. M.; Petrucci, P. O.; Rouan, D.; Waisberg, I.; Woillez, J.; Amorim, A.; Brandner, W.; Förster Schreiber, N. M.; Garcia, P. J. V.; Gillessen, S.; Ott, T.; Paumard, T.;
Published in: Nature, 563/7733, 2018, Page(s) 657-660, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0731-9

Stability of the Broad-line Region Geometry and Dynamics in Arp 151 Over Seven Years

Author(s): A. Pancoast, A. J. Barth, K. Horne, T. Treu, B. J. Brewer, V. N. Bennert, G. Canalizo, E. L. Gates, W. Li, M. A. Malkan, D. Sand, T. Schmidt, S. Valenti, J.-H. Woo, K. I. Clubb, M. C. Cooper, S. M. Crawford, S. F. Hönig, M. D. Joner, M. T. Kandrashoff, M. Lazarova, A. M. Nierenberg, E. Romero-Colmenero, D. Son, E. Tollerud, J. L. Walsh, H. Winkler
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 856/2, 2018, Page(s) 108, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab3c6

The planet formation imager

Author(s): John D. Monnier, Stefan Kraus, Michael J. Ireland, Fabien Baron, Amelia Bayo, Jean-Philippe Berger, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Ruobing Dong, Gaspard Duchêne, Catherine Espaillat, Chris Haniff, Sebastian Hönig, Andrea Isella, Attila Juhasz, Lucas Labadie, Sylvestre Lacour, Stephanie Leifer, Antoine Merand, Ernest Michael, Stefano Minardi, Christoph Mordasini, David Mozurkewich, Johan Olofsson, Claud
Published in: Experimental Astronomy, 2018, ISSN 0922-6435
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-018-9594-1

New Evidence for the Dusty Wind Model: Polar Dust and a Hot Core in the Type-1 Seyfert ESO 323-G77

Author(s): James H. Leftley, Konrad R. W. Tristram, Sebastian F. Hönig, Makoto Kishimoto, Daniel Asmus, Poshak Gandhi
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 862/1, 2018, Page(s) 17, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac8e5

3D Radiation Hydrodynamics of a Dynamical Torus

Author(s): David Williamson, Sebastian Hönig, Marta Venanzi
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 876/2, 2019, Page(s) 137, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab17d5

Chemodynamics of Dwarf Galaxies under Ram Pressure

Author(s): David Williamson, Hugo Martel
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 867/1, 2018, Page(s) 72, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae538

Dissecting the active galactic nucleus in Circinus – II. A thin dusty disc and a polar outflow on parsec scales

Author(s): Marko Stalevski, Konrad R W Tristram, Daniel Asmus
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484/3, 2019, Page(s) 3334-3355, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz220

Nuclear molecular outflow in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3227

Author(s): A. Alonso-Herrero, S. García-Burillo, M. Pereira-Santaella, R. I. Davies, F. Combes, M. Vestergaard, S. I. Raimundo, A. Bunker, T. Díaz-Santos, P. Gandhi, I. García-Bernete, E. K. S. Hicks, S. F. Hönig, L. K. Hunt, M. Imanishi, T. Izumi, N. A. Levenson, W. Maciejewski, C. Packham, C. Ramos Almeida, C. Ricci, D. Rigopoulou, P. F. Roche, D. Rosario, M. Schartmann, A. Usero, M. J. Ward
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 628, 2019, Page(s) A65, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935431

The Role of Infrared Radiation Pressure in Shaping Dusty Winds in AGNs

Author(s): Marta Venanzi, Sebastian Hönig, David Williamson
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 900/2, 2020, Page(s) 174, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba89f

Hypercubes of AGN Tori (HYPERCAT). II. Resolving the Torus with Extremely Large Telescopes

Author(s): Nikutta, Robert ; Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique ; Ichikawa, Kohei ; Levenson, N. A. ; Packham, Christopher ; Hönig, Sebastian F. ; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena
Published in: Astrophysical Journal, Volume 923, 2021, Page(s) 127, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2949

The central parsec of NGC 3783: a rotating broad emission line region, asymmetric hot dust structure, and compact coronal line region

Author(s): A. Amorim, M. Bauböck, W. Brandner, M. Bolzer, Y. Clénet, R. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, J. Dexter, A. Drescher, A. Eckart, F. Eisenhauer, N. M. Förster Schreiber, F. Gao, P. J. V. Garcia, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, D. Gratadour, S. Hönig, D. Kaltenbrunner, M. Kishimoto, S. Lacour, D. Lutz, F. Millour, H. Netzer, T. Ott, T. Paumard, K. Perraut, G. Perrin, B. M. Peterson, P. O. Petrucci, O. Pfuhl, M.
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 648, 2021, Page(s) A117, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040061

The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). I. ALMA images of dusty molecular tori in Seyfert galaxies

Author(s): García-Burillo, S. ; Alonso-Herrero, A. ; Ramos Almeida, C. ; González-Martín, O. ; Combes, F. ; Usero, A. ; Hönig, S. ; Querejeta, M. ; Hicks, E. K. S. ; Hunt, L. K. ; Rosario, D. ; Davies, R. ; Boorman, P. G. ; Bunker, A. J. ; Burtscher, L. ; Colina, L. ; Díaz-Santos, T. ; Gandhi, P. ; García-Bernete, I. ; García-Lorenzo, B. Ichikawa, K. ; Imanishi, M. ; Izumi, T. ; La
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 652, 2021, Page(s) A98, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141075

Local AGN survey (LASr): I. Galaxy sample, infrared colour selection, and predictions for AGN within 100 Mpc

Author(s): D Asmus, C L Greenwell, P Gandhi, P G Boorman, J Aird, D M Alexander, R J Assef, R D Baldi, R I Davies, S F Hönig, C Ricci, D J Rosario, M Salvato, F Shankar, D Stern
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494/2, 2020, Page(s) 1784-1816, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa766

Multiwavelength optical and NIR variability analysis of the Blazar PKS 0027-426

Author(s): E. Guise, S. F. Hoenig, T. Almeyda, K. Horne, M. Kishimoto, M. Aguena, S. Allam, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Asorey, M. Banerji, E. Bertin, B. Boulderstone, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, P. Gandhi, M. Goad, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl,
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, VOlume 510, 2021, Page(s) 3145, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3457

Radiation Hydrodynamics Models of Active Galactic Nuclei: Beyond the Central Parsec

Author(s): David Williamson, Sebastian Hönig, Marta Venanzi
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 897/1, 2020, Page(s) 26, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab989e

A geometric distance to the supermassive black Hole of NGC 3783

Author(s): Gravity Collaboration ; Amorim, A. ; Bauböck, M. ; Bentz, M. C. ; Brandner, W. ; Bolzer, M. ; Clénet, Y. ; Davies, R. ; de Zeeuw, P. T. ; Dexter, J. ; Drescher, A. ; Eckart, A. ; Eisenhauer, F. ; Förster Schreiber, N. M. ; Garcia, P. J. V. ; Genzel, R. ; Gillessen, S. ; Gratadour, D. ; Hönig, S. ; Kaltenbrunner, D. Kishimoto, M. ; Lacour, S. ; Lutz, D. ; Millour, F. ; Netz
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 654, 2021, Page(s) A85, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141426

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068

Author(s): O. Pfuhl, R. Davies, J. Dexter, H. Netzer, S. Hönig, D. Lutz, M. Schartmann, E. Sturm, A. Amorim, W. Brandner, Y. Clénet, P. T. de Zeeuw, A. Eckart, F. Eisenhauer, N. M. Förster Schreiber, F. Gao, P. J. V. Garcia, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, D. Gratadour, M. Kishimoto, S. Lacour, F. Millour, T. Ott, T. Paumard, K. Perraut, G. Perrin, B. M. Peterson, P. O. Petrucci, M. A. Prieto, D. Rouan, J. Shang
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 634, 2020, Page(s) A1, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936255