Geert Barentsen

`asdf` does not appear able to open cloud-hosted files using `fsspec` file handles

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## Summary Using `asdf` v2.12.0, it does not appear possible for `asdf` to work with file handles which have been opened using `fsspec`. (See reproducible example and traceback appended below.)...

Support remote and cloud-hosted FITS files

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## Summary This PR would enable users to seamlessly extract data from FITS files stored on a web server or in the cloud without downloading the entire file to local...

JWST data triggers 'datfix' and 'obsfix' FITSFixedWarning

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## Summary When opening the WCS of a JWST/NIRCam image, I encountering two `FITSFixedWarning` warnings (see full example further below): ```python WARNING: FITSFixedWarning: 'datfix' made the change 'Set DATE-BEG to...

Speed up `mast.Observations.get_cloud_uris()`

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When using `astroquery.mast`, it is currently very slow to download multiple data products in cloud-enabled mode. The main reason for the poor performance is that the `Observations.get_cloud_uris()` helper method is...

Add support for KEPSEISMIC in search

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This PR attempts to address #967 by ensuring KEPSEISMIC data products show up in `search_lightcurve`.

One Sector 6 cadence has all-zero flux in TESSCut data

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I find that TESS Sector 6 data of TIC 123835353 near BTJD=1477.015 contains all-zero flux in TESSCut data, even though the Target Pixel File appears fine. **Target Pixel File flux...

Investigate the use of Quantity masking introduced in AstroPy v4.3

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It looks like AstroPy v4.3 is adding support for masking `Quantity` objects (and other ndarray subclasses) via work performed in https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/11127. This may open the door to allow `LightCurve` objects...

Use `format="tjd"` or `format="tess"` instead of `format="btjd"` in astropy Time objects?

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Lightkurve v2 added support for Kepler and TESS times (i.e. BTJD and BKJD) by registering "btjd" and "bkjd" as AstroPy time formats in `src/lightkurve/time.py`. This allows for the following convenient...

Restore `test_bin` and `test_bin_quality`

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I temporarily skipped the tests `test_bin` and `test_bin_quality` over in `test_lightcurve.py`. These tests pass fine (locally) using SciPy v1.3.x and earlier, but the newly-released SciPy v1.4.0 has a change which...

Investigate using `diskcache` for persistent MAST query caching

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We could look into using the `diskcache` package to cache MAST search operations: https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/ The package is a disk-based key-value store which makes it easy to specify an expiration time...