Create a function that allows the caller to get a set of stars from Gaia.
Spatial Searches
- One detector: get stars to a detector coverage plus a customizable buffer.
- One FoV
- A region in RA, Dec specified by Circle, Bounding Box
Optional: specification of magnitude range.
Returns either pandas dataframe or AstroPy Table. Your choice.
(relatedly, I'd like to standardize on one vs the other in photometry, the "dataframe" <-> parquet vs. AstroPy Table has me torn.)