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Handle reading/writing of covariance matrices
Some spectra have relevant covariance matrices which should be stored in the FITS file.
- First, figure out how to get the covariance matrices into a FITS HDU. (https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/16648)
- Then, make a specutils reader/writer which reads/writes a spectrum and a covaraince matrix.
from @kbwestfall: I would envision it as two different tables in 1 file. The current I/O basically works directly with HDUs. So you could have the main code in core (maybe in NDData actually) that constructs the HDUs that then get added to the spectrum HDU(s).