Empirical Near-Infrared Spectral Templates from SPHEREx: Disentangling AGN and Host-Galaxy Emission
SPHEREx conducts the first all-sky near-infrared spectral survey over 0.75-5.0 $\mu$m, spanning the transition from host-galaxy starlight to AGN-heated torus emission and enabling spectroscopic identification of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We develop a data-driven framework combining weighted non-negative matrix fac...