Update dependency astropy to <=7.2.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
astropy	<=7.1.1 -> <=7.2.0

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Release Notes

astropy/astropy (astropy)

v7.2.0

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New Features

astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Added CODATA 2022 support in astropy.constants.

  This update affects the following constants while the rest are unchanged from CODATA 2018:

  • m_p (Proton mass)
  • m_n (Neutron mass)
  • m_e (Electron mass)
  • u (Atomic mass)
  • eps0 (Vacuum electric permittivity)
  • Ryd (Rydberg constant)
  • a0 (Bohr radius)
  • muB (Bohr magneton)
  • alpha (Fine-structure constant)
  • mu0 (Vacuum magnetic permeability)
  • sigma_T (Thomson scattering cross-section) [#​18118]

astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Allow np.concatenate, np.stack and similar numpy functions to
  be applied on representations and differentials.

  They can also be applied to coordinate frames and SkyCoord, though
  with the same limitation as for setting elements of frames and
  coordinates: all frame attributes have to be scalars (or arrays with
  only identical elements). [#​18193]

• The results of match_coordinates_3d(), match_coordinates_sky(),
  search_around_3d() and search_around_sky() and the corresponding
  SkyCoord methods now have named attributes. [#​18459]

astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.CurvatureComponent has been added to work with
  objects that have attributes and methods related to the global curvature. [#​18232]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.HubbleParameter has been added to work with objects that have attributes and methods related to the Hubble parameter. [#​18271]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.DarkEnergyComponent has been added to work with objects that have attributes and methods related to the Dark Energy component. [#​18447]

• Cosmology methods now exclusively return arrays, not floats or other scalars. [#​18632]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.DarkMatterComponent has been added to work with
  objects that have attributes and methods related to dark matter. [#​18760]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.MatterComponent has been added to work with
  objects that have attributes and methods related to matter density.
  The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.BaryonComponent has been added to work with
  objects that have attributes and methods related to baryonic matter.
  The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.CriticalDensity has been added to work with
  objects that have attributes and methods related to the critical density. [#​18769]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.PhotonComponent has been added to work with objects that have attributes and methods related to photons. [#​18787]

• The trait astropy.cosmology.traits.TotalComponent has been added to work with objects that have attributes and methods related to the total density component of the universe. [#​18794]

astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• CDS table reader will find the metadata for gzipped tables in the accompanying ReadMe file. [#​18506]

astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in all argparse CLIs for Python 3.14
  (fitscheck, fitsdiff, fitsheader and fitsinfo). [#​18151]

• Allow reading a FITS file hosted on a cloud resource like Amazon S3 via
  Table.read(). This is done with a new fsspec_kwargs dict argument
  that gets passed through to fsspec to access cloud resources. [#​18379]

• It is now possible to check the existence of Columns in ColDefs by using the membership operator. [#​18717]

astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Added a new ECSV table reading module that supports different backend engines for the
  CSV data parsing. In addition to the default "io.ascii" engine, this includes engines
  that use the PyArrow and Pandas CSV readers. These can be up to 16 times faster and are
  more memory efficient than the native astropy ECSV reader. To get help with this
  interface run Table.read.help(format="ecsv"). [#​18267]

• Improve support for compressed file formats in the ECSV and the pyarrow CSV
  Table readers. All formats supported by astropy.utils.data.get_readable_fileobj()
  (currently gzip, bzip2, lzma (xz) or lzw (Z)) will now work with these readers. [#​18712]

astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Allow setting EXTNAME when writing a Table to a FITS file, e.g.
  tbl.write("filename.fits", name="CAT", append=True). [#​18470]

astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in volint CLI for Python 3.14 [#​18151]

• Modified the constructor for astropy.io.votable.tree.TableElement to use the version configuration information from the parent VOTableFile instance. This allows for better handling of version-specific features and ensures that the table element is created with the correct context regarding the VOTable version. [#​18366]

astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Add support for unit change propagation through the | (model composition) operator,
  using either ~astropy.modeling.compose_models_with_units or by setting the
  unit_change_composition attribute on the model after composition. [#​17304]

astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The interpret_bit_flags function now strips whitespace from flag names. [#​18205]

astropy.samp
^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in samp_hub CLI for Python 3.14 [#​18151]

astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in showtable CLI for Python 3.14 [#​18151]

• Added generic from_df and to_df methods to astropy.Table using
  narwhals. These methods provide a unified interface for converting between
  Astropy Tables and various DataFrame formats (pandas, polars, pyarrow, etc.)
  through the narwhals library. The to_df method converts an Astropy Table
  to any supported DataFrame format, while from_df creates an Astropy Table
  from any narwhals-compatible DataFrame. Narwhals is a lightweight compatibility
  layer that provides a unified API across different DataFrame libraries, allowing
  seamless interoperability without requiring all DataFrame libraries as dependencies. [#​18435]

• Setting the units or descriptions of QTable and Table
  has been made more flexible for tables with optional columns that may
  or may not appear in the data. This applies to directly creating a table
  as well as reading formatted data with the read() method.

  In both cases you can supply units and description arguments as a
  dict that specifies the units and descriptions for column names in
  the table. Previously, if the input table did not contain a column that
  was specified in the units or description dict, a ValueError
  was raised. Now, such columns are simply ignored. [#​18641]

• A new method has been added for accessing a table index for tables with multiple
  indices. You can now select the index with the with_index(index_id) method of the
  .loc, .iloc, and .loc_indices properties. For example, for a table t
  which has two indices on columns "a" and "b" respectively,
  t.loc.with_index("b")[2] will use index "b" to find all the table rows where
  t["b"] == 2. Doing this query using the previous syntax t.loc["b", 2] is
  deprecated and this functionality is planned for removal in astropy 9.0.

  In addition, support has been added for using .loc, .iloc, and .loc_indices
  with an index based on two or more key columns. Previously this raised a ValueError. [#​18680]

astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Allow np.concatenate, np.stack and similar numpy functions to
  be applied on Time and TimeDelta instances. [#​18193]

• Add a new time format galex for the GALEX satellite.

  In GALEX data, due to uncertainty in the spacecraft clock, the absolute time is only accurate to
  about 1-10 seconds while the relative time within an observation is better than 0.005 s or so,
  except on days with leap seconds, where relative times can be wrong by up to 1 s.
  See question 101.2 in https://www.galex.caltech.edu/researcher/faq.html [#​18330]

astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Some unit formats have deprecated units and converting such units to strings
  emits a warning.
  The new deprecations parameter of the unit to_string() methods allows
  automatically converting deprecated units (if possible), silencing the warnings
  or raising them as errors instead. [#​18586]

astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in fits2bitmap CLI for Python 3.14 [#​18151]

• Added show_decimal_unit to set_major_formatter to control whether
  or not units are shown in decimal mode. [#​18312]

• Added the methods set_visible() and set_position() to control the visibility and position of ticks, tick labels, and axis labels in a single call.

  Also added get_ticks_visible(), get_ticklabel_visible(), and get_axislabel_visible() methods to get the visibility state of each coordinate element. [#​18443]

• Added an image interval option (SymmetricInterval) for specifying a
  symmetric extent about a midpoint, and the extent that contains both the image
  minimum and maximum can be automatically determined. [#​18602]

astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^

• Enable color and suggestion-on-typos in all wcslint CLI for Python 3.14 [#​18151]

• Added a perserve_units keyword argument to WCS to optionally request
  that units are not converted to SI (the default behavior is for celestial axes
  to have units converted to degrees, and spectral axes to m or Hz). [#​18338]

API Changes

astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The functionality of astropy.coordinates.concatenate and
  astropy.coordinates.concatenate_representations is now available using
  np.concatenate. Hence, these functions are being deprecated, emitting an
  AstropyPendingDeprecationWarning starting with astropy 7.2. This will be
  followed by a regular deprecation warning in astropy 8.0, and removal in 9.0. [#​18193]

• The matrix_utilities module was not included in the astropy API
  documentation, but it was nonetheless explicitly referred to in some of the
  other documentation.
  This made it unclear if the functions in the module are public or private.
  The public matrix utilities is_rotation_or_reflection() and
  rotation_matrix() have been made available from the astropy.coordinates
  namespace and should be imported from there.
  Functions not available from the astropy.coordinate namespace are private
  and may be changed or removed without warning.
  However, three functions have been explicitly deprecated, despite being
  private, as a courtesy to existing users.
  matrix_utilites.angle_axis() and matrix_utilites.is_rotation() are
  deprecated without replacement.
  matrix_utilities.is_O3() is deprecated and the public
  is_rotation_or_reflection() function can be used as a replacement. [#​18418]

• The undocumented earth_orientation module has been removed. [#​18638]

• astropy prefers reading data required for EarthLocation.of_site() from
  a local cache and tries downloading (and caching) the data from the Internet if
  the cache is empty.
  As a last resort astropy has so far read a small bundled data file that
  provided data for Greenwich as the single entry, but now astropy will raise
  an error. [#​18649]

astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• UnifiedInputRegistry and UnifiedOutputRegistry's delay_doc_updates
  method's effect is disabled under Python's optimized mode (-OO flag). [#​17572]

astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Added a config property to astropy.io.votable.tree.VOTableFile.
  This property can be passed to the config parameter of constructors that need to know the associated VOTable version, such as TimeSys and CooSys. [#​18366]

astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Add additional detail to the text of the ValueError that is raised when
  pprint cannot parse a column format string. [#​17631]

• Selecting a table index in the .loc, .iloc, or .loc_indices properties by
  passing the index identifier as the first element of the item is deprecated and is
  planned for removal in astropy 9.0. For example, if a table t has two indices on
  columns "a" and "b" respectively, then t.loc["b", 2] (to find table rows
  where t["b"] == 2) is deprecated. This is replaced by t.loc.with_index("b")[2]. [#​18680]

astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• API changes towards a future deprecation of astropy test runner:

  • astropy.tests.runner.keyword is removed from public API.
    It is used internally as a decorator within astropy test runner and
    its exposure as public API was a mistake. In the future, it will be
    removed without any deprecation.
  • astropy.test, astropy.tests.runner.TestRunnerBase, and astropy.tests.runner.TestRunner
    are now pending deprecation (AstropyPendingDeprecationWarning).
    This will also affect downstream packagename.test generated using TestRunner.
    They may start to emit AstropyDeprecationWarning in v8.0 (but no earlier). [#​17874]

astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The isiterable() utility is deprecated.
  numpy.iterable() can be used as a drop-in replacement. [#​18053]

• astropy.utils.metadata.MergeStrategy no longer modifies the merge()
  methods of its subclasses at runtime to re-raise all exceptions as
  MergeConflictError.
  This does not affect the functionality of MergeStrategy subclasses within
  the astropy metadata merging machinery. [#​18518]

astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• A warning is now emitted for each axis name which is
  invalid in set_ticklabel_position, set_axislabel_position,
  and set_ticks_position. This is a deprecation warning,
  and in future invalid axis names will result in an error. [#​18324]

• A warning is now emitted if arguments are given to the getter method
  get_axislabel_visibility_rule. This is a deprecation warning, and in
  future, giving arguments to this method will result in an error. [#​18792]

Bug Fixes

astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• get_config_dir() and get_cache_dir() now emit warnings in all cases
  where the XDG_CACHE_HOME (XDG_CONFIG_HOME, respectively) environment
  variable doesn't meet internal assumptions and is ignored as a result. [#​17934]

astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The angle argument of the rotation_matrix() function can now be any
  angle-like value, like its docstring states.
  Previously some angle-like values (e.g. angle-like strings) were erroneously
  rejected. [#​18504]

astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fix bug with heap which was not updated after a VLA column is modified. [#​18487]

• Make fitscheck verify all HDUs before listing errors. [#​18574]

• Fix calculation of DATASUM/CHECKSUM for heap data in BinTableHDU. [#​18681]

• Fixed a bug in fitsdiff script where failing to read a single file could
  crash the entire program. A warning is now printed instead, and such files
  are simply ignored. [#​18882]

astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fixed a bug where writing a table to ECSV fails if meta
  contains a value that is a numpy string. [#​18677]

astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Updated IVOA UCD1+ controlled vocabulary from version 1.5 to 1.6. This adds
  support for new atmospheric observation terms including obs.atmos.wind,
  obs.atmos.humidity, obs.atmos.rain, obs.atmos.turbulence,
  obs.atmos.turbulence.isoplanatic, obs.atmos.water, and
  phys.temperature.dew which are now recognized when parsing UCDs with
  check_controlled_vocabulary=True. [#​18483]

• Fixed a bug in add_data_origin_info() where content is ignored for some INFO names. [#​18771]

astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fixed a bug in modeling.tabular models when the lookup_table is a Quantity, where the result might lose its unit in some cases. [#​18958]

astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fixed unexpected upcasting to 64 bits when doing arithmetic with Python scalars
  on numpy 2.

  Don't upcast NDData unnecessarily when doing arithmetic involving a single
  unit (consistent with the behaviour when there are no units). Upcasting still
  occurs if an operand's unit gets converted to match the other, or where
  required by the other operand's dtype. [#​18392]

astropy.samp
^^^^^^^^^^^^

• SAMPHubServer._call_and_wait raises a new SAMPProxyTimeoutError (derived from SAMPProxyError) exception on timeout.
  This allows client code to more easily distinguish timeouts from other kind of exceptions. [#​18169]

astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• poisson_conf_interval kraft-burrows-nousek no longer fails for large N. [#​18676]

astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fix a bug when slicing a table that has a multi-column index. Previously, after slicing
  the table then tbl.indices would show duplicates of the multi-column index, one for
  each column in the index. The underlying indices on the index columns were incorrectly
  distinct objects instead of the expected reference to a single index object. [#​18694]

• Fix bugs when indexing a QTable with a Quantity column. Previously, after adding
  the index then indexed item access via with a Quantity or slicing was failing. [#​18725]

• Fix a bug where the ECSV writer was not correctly quoting column names if the first name
  starts with the "#" character or any names contain leading/trailing whitespace. In this
  situation, all column names are now surrounded by double quotes per the ECSV standard.
  Likewise the ECSV reader was incorrectly stripping surrounding whitespace from column
  names, leading to a consistency check failure when reading. [#​18752]

• Fixed a bug when writing Table to FITS files, if the table contained masked arrays of integers. [#​18818]

astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• The string representations of the liter with the different astropy unit
  formatters are now more consistent with each other.
  This change only affects converting units to strings, it has no effect on
  parsing strings to units. [#​18500]

• So far only the "cds" unit format has been capable of parsing the string
  "as" as the attosecond, but now the other unit formats recognize that
  string too. [#​18723]

• The "ogip" unit formatter can now parse strings that include signed
  fractions in the exponent, e.g. u.Unit("m**(-1/2)", format="ogip"). [#​18776]

astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• If numpy.msort() is called with a Masked array then astropy no
  longer erroneously hides the deprecation warning (with numpy versions
  1.24-1.26). [#​18173]

• For numpy < 2.0, applying np.atleast_*d to iterables of most astropy
  classes will now return a list of instances instead of a tuple, to match the
  behaviour for arrays. For numpy >= 2.0, tuples continue to be returned. [#​18193]

astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fixed an image-normalization bug where the interval on a ImageNormalize
  instance could be ignored when plotting. [#​18590]

astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^

• Fixed a bug that caused world_to_array_index to return lists instead of Numpy arrays. [#​18730]

Other Changes and Additions

• The minimum required NumPy version is now 1.24. [#​18160]

• The minimum required Matplotlib version is now 3.8.0. [#​18164]

• Bundled expat is updated to version 2.7.3. [#​18657]

• Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 4.6.3. [#​18689]

• Wheels are now provided for Windows arm64. [#​18786]

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