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A SPHEREx Pipeline and Spectral Library for Ultracool Dwarfs

Author Affiliations
Espace pour la vie, Université de Montréal, American Museum of Natural History, The Open University, ...
Published InarXiv (Cornell University)
Year2026

Abstract

We present a Python spectrophotometry extraction tool tailored for fast-moving point sources detected in the SPHEREx mission, and use it to construct a set of 0.75-5.0 $μ$m low-resolution ($λ/Δλ\sim 50$) spectrophotometry data products based on the SPHEREx Quick Release 2 (QR2) for a set of 6003 L0-Y1 ultracool dwarfs: 2050 known ultracool dwarfs, 3008 known photometric ultracool dwarf candidates, and 947 newly identified ultracool dwarfs. This work more than doubles the number of ultracool dwarfs with spectroscopy, from 3449 to 7402. We provide SPHEREx templates for each spectral subtype and a set of tools to assign automated spectral types. The QR2 data release generates spectrophotometry with an average signal-to-noise per spectral channel above $\sim$10 for most objects with WISE W2…
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