read_qtable

stixcore.products.product.read_qtable(file, hdu, hdul=None)

Read a fits file into a QTable and maintain dtypes of columns with units

Hack to work around QTable not respecting the dtype in fits file see astropy/astropy#12494

Parameters:

• file (str or pathlib.Path) – Fits file

• hdu (str) – The name of the extension

• hdul (optional astropy.io.fits.HDUList) – The HDU list for the fits file

Returns:

astropy.table.QTable – The corrected QTable with correct data types