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Dr Henrik Nils Latter

Career

  • 2012 - now  :  University Lecturer, DAMTP & Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge
  • 2010 - 2012 :  Research Associate, DAMTP, Cambridge
  • 2007 - 2010 :  Postdoctoral Researcher, ENS, Paris

Research

Henrik is a member of the Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics research group. His current research interests are

  • Structure formation in Saturn's rings
  • Protoplanetary disks and planet formation
  • The magnetohydrodynamics of accretion disks
  • Instabilities, waves, and turbulence

Selected Publications

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Publications

Meteoroid Bombardment and Ballistic Transport in Planetary Rings
PR Estrada, RH Durisen, HN Latter
(2018)
198
(DOI: 10.1017/9781316286791.009)
Vortices and the saturation of the vertical shear instability in protoplanetary discs
HN Latter, J Papaloizou
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2018)
474,
3110
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3031)
Local models of astrophysical discs
HN Latter, J Papaloizou
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
472,
1432
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2038)
Gravito-turbulence and the excitation of small-scale parametric instability in astrophysical discs
A Riols, H Latter, S-J Paardekooper
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
471,
317
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1548)
Magnetorotational instability and dynamo action in gravito-turbulent astrophysical discs
A Riols, H Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
474,
2212
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2455)
MRI turbulence and thermal instability in accretion discs
J Ross, HN Latter, M Tehranchi
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
468,
2401
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx564)
Turbulent fluctuations and the excitation of Z Cam outbursts
J Ross, HN Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
470,
34
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1212)
On dust–gas gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary discs
HN Latter, R Rosca
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2017)
464,
1923
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2455)
On the survival of zombie vortices in protoplanetary discs
GRJ Lesur, H Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2016)
462,
4549
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2172)
Magnetorotationally driven wind cycles in local disc models
A Riols, GI Ogilvie, H Latter, JP Ross
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2016)
463,
3096
(DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2196)
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Research Group

Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Email

hl278@cam.ac.uk

Room

F1.19

Telephone

01223 337907

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