SPHEREx: NASA's near-infrared spectrophotometric 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, OIivier Doré, C. Darren Dowell, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Tim Eifler, Andreas Faisst, Salman HabibChen 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 Öberg, 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

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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 0.75μm and 5μm with spectral resolving power ∼40 between 0.75 and 3.8μm and ∼120 between 3.8 and 5μm At the end of its two-year mission, SPHEREx will provide 0.75-to-5μm spectra of each 6."2x6."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 ow and a summary of the data processing, analysis, and distribution plans.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020
Subtitle of host publicationOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
EditorsMakenzie Lystrup, Marshall D. Perrin
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510636736
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Dec 14 2020Dec 22 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11443
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/14/2012/22/20

Keywords

  • All-sky survey
  • Biogenic ices
  • Cosmology
  • Extragalactic background light
  • Linear variable filters
  • Near infrared

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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