Publications
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How to Cite SPARKLES
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If you make use of the SPARKLES forecasts, models, or data in your research, please cite the following publications:

1 - **Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy** - *Borlaff, Marcum & Howell* (2025):  *Nature*, Volume 648, Issue 8092, pp. 51-57. **DOI**: `10.1038/s41586-025-09759-5 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09759-5>`_

.. code-block:: bibtex
    
    @ARTICLE{2025Natur.648...51B,
       author = {{Borlaff}, Alejandro S. and {Marcum}, Pamela M. and {Howell}, Steve B.},
        title = "{Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy}",
      journal = {\nat},
     keywords = {Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences},
         year = 2025,
        month = dec,
       volume = {648},
       number = {8092},
        pages = {51-57},
          doi = {10.1038/s41586-025-09759-5},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025Natur.648...51B},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }

`Borlaff et al. (2025) - Paper in NASA/ADS <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025Natur.648...51B/abstract>`_ 


2 - **Zenodo: Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy** - *Borlaff, Alejandro S.* (2025): *Zenodo*. **DOI**: `10.5281/zenodo.17655052 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17655052>`_

.. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.17655052.svg
  :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17655052


.. code-block:: bibtex

    @misc{borlaff_2025_zenodo_17655052,
          author       = {S. Borlaff, Alejandro},
          title        = {Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy},
          month        = nov,
          year         = 2025,
          publisher    = {Zenodo},
          doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17655052},
          url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17655052},
         }

3 - **SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit** - *Borlaff, Marcum, Howell, Sánchez-Alarcón, Dubois, McDowell* (2026): *Accepted for publication by The Astronomical Journal*. `Link to the accepted version (27 May 2026) <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Borlaff/SPARKLES/main/PUBLICATIONS/SPHEREx_borlaff_AJ_2026.pdf>`_.

`Available as an ArXiV preprint (28 May 2026). <https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501>`_. *In processing by The Astronomical Journal.*.

.. code-block:: bibtex

  @ARTICLE{2026arXiv260527501B,
        author = {{Borlaff}, Alejandro S. and {Marcum}, Pamela M. and {Howell}, Steve B. and {S{\'a}nchez-Alarc{\'o}n}, Pablo M. and {Dubois}, David and {McDowell}, Jonathan},
          title = "{SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit}",
        journal = {arXiv e-prints},
      keywords = {Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
          year = 2026,
          month = may,
            eid = {arXiv:2605.27501},
          pages = {arXiv:2605.27501},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        eprint = {2605.27501},
  primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
        adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXiv260527501B},
        adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
  }


4 - **Zenodo: SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit**. Borlaff et al. (2026) - Public Database.

.. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.17957748.svg
  :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17957748




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