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Caption: Figure 5.
The POKEMON catalog as a function of spectral type and distance, colored by the level of saturation across the six SPHEREx bands. All stars earlier than spectral type M4.5 saturate at least one band. Points encapsulated in green circles were manually spot-checked using the IRSA SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool and showed few or no saturation flags in the brightest image pixels. Boxed points showed saturation flags and unreliable fluxes in one or more bands, corroborating the saturation estimates reflected in the point colors.
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