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most citedThe SPHEREx Sky Simulator: Science Data Modeling for the First All-Sky Near-Infrared Spectral Survey

13 citations · 24 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2026

Tracing the Boundary of the South Atlantic Anomaly Region with SPHEREx Transient Flagging Rates

Chi H. Nguyen, James Bock, Sean Bryan +10

The NASA SPHEREx satellite was launched in 03/2025 to survey the full sky between 0.75 - 5.0 um. The image processing of SPHEREx H2RG detectors includes real-time flagging of trans…

physics.ao-ph2026

Observations of Atmospheric Helium and Oxygen with SPHEREx

Howard Hui, Chi Nguyen, Ryan Wills +20

We present measurements of near-infrared (NIR) terrestrial airglow produced by helium and oxygen in the exosphere as observed by SPHEREx. Using eight months of survey data obtained…

astro-ph.IM2026

The SPHEREx Instrument: Calibration, testing and performance measurements of the NIR spectroscopic surveyor from the laboratory to in-orbit commissioning

Phil M. Korngut, James J. Bock, Samuel Condon +90

The SPHEREx near-infrared space telescope is an all-sky spectroscopic survey mission launched on March 12th, 2025 UTC. In addition to providing the community with a spectral databa…

astro-ph.EP2026

SPHEREx Re-Observation of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS in December 2025: Detection of Increased Post-Perihelion Activity, Refractory Coma Dust, and New Coma Gas Species

C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. A. Bryan +13

In December-2025, the NASA SPHEREx spacecraft re-observed ISO 3I/ATLAS post-perihelion, finding a much more active object compared to August-2025 SPHEREx pre-perihelion observation…

astro-ph.EP2025

SPHEREx Pre-Perihelion Mapping of , , and in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

Carey M. Lisse, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Brendan P. Crill +35

From 01- to 15-Aug-2025UT, the SPHEREx spacecraft observed interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Using spectrophotometry at m, light curves, spectra, and imaging of…

astro-ph.IM2025

The SPHEREx Image and Spectrophotometry Processing Pipeline

Rachel Akeson, Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann, Brendan P. Crill +41

In this paper, we describe the SPHEREx image and spectrophotometry data processing pipeline, an infrastructure and software system designed to produce calibrated spectral images an…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS

C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. Bryan +17

In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I AT…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 13 cited

The SPHEREx Sky Simulator: Science Data Modeling for the First All-Sky Near-Infrared Spectral Survey

Brendan P. Crill, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Sean A. Bryan +29

We describe the SPHEREx Sky Simulator, a software tool designed to model science data for NASA's SPHEREx mission that will carry out a series of all-sky spectrophotometric surveys…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

SPIDER Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +67

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separ…