You can find a link to my current CV here.


Below is a list of my publications with links:

Sipilä, O, Silsbee, K & Caselli, P. 2021, ApJ, 922, 126, A Revised Description of the Cosmic Ray Induced Desorption of Interstellar Ices

Silsbee, K, Ivlev, A, & Caselli, P. 2021, MNRAS, 507, 6205, Ice Mantles on Dust Grains: Dramatic Variation of Thickness with Grain Size


Silsbee, K, & Ivlev, A. V. & Gong, M. 2021, ApJ 922, 10, Thermal Damping of Weak Magnetosonic Turbulence in the

Interstellar Medium

Silsbee, K & Rafikov, R. 2021, A&A, 652, 104, Planet Formation in Stellar Binaries: Global Simulations of Planetesimal Growth

Fitz-Axen, Margot et al. 2021, ApJ, 915, 43, Transport of Protostellar Cosmic Rays in Turbulent Dense Cores



Ivlev, A, Silsbee, K, Padovani, M. & Galli, D. 2021, ApJ, 909, 107, Rigorous Theory for Secondary Cosmic-Ray Ionization


Silsbee, K, & Ivlev, A. V. 2020, ApJL, 902, 25, Exclusion of Cosmic Rays from Molecular Clouds by Self-

generated Electric Fields


Silsbee, K, Ivlev, A. V. Sipila, O, Caselli, P., & Zhao, B. 2020, A&A, 641, A39 Rapid Elimination of Small

Dust Grains in Molecular Clouds


Rafikov, R., Silsbee, K, & Booth, R. 2020, ApJS, 247, 65; A Fast O(N2) Fragmentation Algorithm


Ivlev, A, Silsbee, K, Sipilä, O & Caselli, P. 2019 ApJ, 884, 176, Gas and Dust Temperature In Prestellar Cores Revisited: New Limits on Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate


Gong, M., et al. 2019, ApJ, 883, 164; Chondrule Formation by Sweeping Jovian Secular Resonance

Silsbee, K., & Ivlev, A. 2019, ApJ, 879, 14 Diffusive vs. Free-Streaming Cosmic Ray Transport in Molecular Clouds

Silsbee, K., Ivlev, A., Padovani, M. & Caselli, P. 2018, ApJ, 863, 188; Magnetic Mirroring and Focusing of Cosmic Rays

Silsbee, K., & Tremaine, S. 2018, AJ, 155, 75; Producing Distant Planets by Mutual Scattering of Planetary Embryos

Silsbee, K., & Tremaine, S. 2017, ApJ, 836, 39; Lidov-Kozai Cycles with Gravitational Radiation: Merging Black Holes in Isolated Triple Systems

Silsbee, K., & Tremaine, S. 2016, AJ, 152, 103; Modeling the Nearly Isotropic Comet Population in Anticipation of LSST Observations

Silsbee, K., & Draine, B.T. 2016, ApJ, 818, 133; Radiation Pressure on Fluffy Submicron-sized Grains

Silsbee, K. & Rafikov, R. R. 2015, ApJ, 808, 58; Birth Locations of the Kepler Circumbinary Planets

Rafikov, R. R. & Silsbee, K 2015, ApJ, 798, 69; Planet Formation in Stellar Binaries. I. Planetesimal Dynamics in Massive Protoplanetary Disks

Rafikov, R. R. & Silsbee, K 2015, ApJ, 798, 70; Planet Formation in Stellar Binaries. II. Overcoming the Fragmentation Barrier in α Centauri and γ Cephei-like Systems

Silsbee, K. & Rafikov, R. R. 2015, Apj, 798, 71; Planet Formation in Binaries: Dynamics of Planetesimals Perturbed by the Eccentric Protoplanetary Disk and the Secondary

Silsbee, K., Ali-Haïmoud, Y. & Hirata, C. M. 2011, MNRAS, 411, 4; Spinning Dust Emission: the Effect of Rotation around a Non-Principal Axis