Using Scattered Near-Infrared Light to Map Water Ice in Prestellar Cores with SPHEREx

Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Jennifer B. Bergner, Jens Kauffmann +2

We present the first coreshine-derived, spatially-resolved maps of the 3 $\mu$m H${}_2$O ice absorption feature in four prestellar cores, using SPHEREx spectra. Ices are a key componen…