SPHEREx: NASA’s Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey
Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson, Matthew Ashby, Lindsey Bleem, James J. Bock, Sean Bryan, Jill Burnham, Joyce Byunh, Tzu-Ching Chang, Yi-Kuan Chiang, Walter Cook, Asantha Cooray, Andrew Davis, Olivier Dor’e, C. Darren Dowell, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Tim Eifler, Andreas Faisst, Salman Habib, Chen Heinrich, Katrin Heitmann, Grigory Heaton, Christopher Hirata, Viktor Hristov, Howard Hui, Woong-Seob Jeong, Jae Hwan Kang, Branislav Kecman, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Phillip M. Korngut, Elisabeth Krause, Bomee Lee, Carey Lisse, Daniel Masters, Philip Mauskopf, Gary Melnick, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Hooshang Nayyeri, Hien Nguyen, Karin "Oberg, Steve Padin, Roberta Paladini, Milad Pourrahmani, Jeonghyun Pyo, Roger Smith, Yong-Seong Song, Teresa Symons, Harry Teplitz, Volker Tolls, Steve Unwin, Rogier Windhorst, Yujin Yang, Michael Zemcov
arXiv:2404.11017v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey at wavelengths between 0.75 micron and 5 micron with spectral resolving power ~40 between 0.75 and 3.8 micron and ~120 between 3.8 and 5 micron At the end of its two-year mission, SPHEREx will provide 0.75-to-5 micron spectra of each 6.2″x6.2″ pixel on the sky – 14 billion spectra in all. This paper updates an earlier description of SPHEREx presenting changes made during the mission’s Preliminary Design Phase, including a discussion of instrument integration and test and a summary of the data processing, analysis, and distribution plans.arXiv:2404.11017v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey at wavelengths between 0.75 micron and 5 micron with spectral resolving power ~40 between 0.75 and 3.8 micron and ~120 between 3.8 and 5 micron At the end of its two-year mission, SPHEREx will provide 0.75-to-5 micron spectra of each 6.2″x6.2″ pixel on the sky – 14 billion spectra in all. This paper updates an earlier description of SPHEREx presenting changes made during the mission’s Preliminary Design Phase, including a discussion of instrument integration and test and a summary of the data processing, analysis, and distribution plans.