The SPHEREx Target List of Ice Sources (SPLICES) Overview
The SPHEREx List of Ice Sources is a compilation of nearly nine million spatially isolated, IR-bright point sources likely to exhibit ice absorption features when observed by NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission. Because of its well-defined and broad-based selection, based on bright all-sky broadband photometry, SPLICES targets are accessible to observatories all over the Earth for followup to characterize e.g., YSOs, protoplanetary disks, and other identified objects (variable sources, carbon stars) in concert with the upcoming multi-epoch SPHEREx 0.75-5.0 micron spectrophotometry.

If you use SPLICES data, please cite both the journal article Ashby et al. (2023) and the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.26131/IRSA554.

Data Set Characteristics

Data ProductDescriptionData Access
Catalog Target list for SPHEREx
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SPLICES Documentation

Documentation & References
SPLICES Documentation
SPLICES Release Notes