The SPHEREx Image and Spectrophotometry Processing Pipeline
Authors
Rachel Akeson
Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann
Brendan P. Crill
Andreas L. Faisst
Tamim Fatahi
Candice M. Fazar
Tatiana Goldina
Daniel C. Masters
Christina Nelson
Roberta Paladini
Harry I. Teplitz
Gabriela Torrini
Phani Velicheti
Matthew L. N. Ashby
Dan Avner
Yoonsoo P. Bach
James J. Bock
Sean Bruton
Sean A. Bryan
Tzu-Ching Chang
Shuang-Shuang Chen
Ari J. Cukierman
O. Dore
C. Darren Dowell
Spencer Everett
Richard M. Feder
Zhaoyu Huai
Howard Hui
Woong-Seob Jeong
Young-Soo Jo
Phil M. Korngut
Yuna G. Kwon
Bomee Lee
Gary J. Melnick
Giulia Murgia
Chi H. Nguyen
Milad Pourrahmani
Zafar Rustamkulov
Volker Tolls
Pao-Yu Wang
Yujin Yang
Michael Zemcov
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the SPHEREx image and spectrophotometry data processing pipeline, an infrastructure and software system designed to produce calibrated spectral images and photometric measurements for NASA's SPHEREx mission. SPHEREx is carrying out a series of four all-sky spectrophotometric surveys at 6.15 arcsecond resolution in 102 spectral channels spanning 0.75 to 5 microns. The pipeline which will deliver the flux- and wavelength-calibrated data products deriving from these surveys has been developed and is operated by the SPHEREx Science Data Center at Caltech/IPAC in collaboration with the SPHEREx Science Team. Here we describe the framework and modules used in the pipeline, along with the data products, which are available at the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.
