Publications
How to Cite SPARKLES
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
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title = "{Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy}",
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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},
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Borlaff et al. (2025) - Paper in NASA/ADS
2 - Zenodo: Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Borlaff, Alejandro S. (2025): Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17655052
@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).
Available as an ArXiV preprint (28 May 2026).. In processing by The Astronomical Journal..
@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},
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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.
