added spacecraft as alias for geocenter

CHANGELOG-unreleased.md

@@ -43,4 +43,5 @@ the released changes.
 - Better exceptions for unsupported/unimplemented binary models (BTX, MSS, etc.)
 - Emit warnings when `WaveX`/`DMWaveX` is used together with other representations of red/DM noise
 - `get_observatory()` no longer overwrites `include_gps` and `include_bipm` of `Observatory` objects unless explicitly stated (BIPM and GPS clock corrections no longer incorrectly applied to BAT TOAs).
+- Added back `spacecraft` as an alias for `stl_geo`
 ### Removed

src/pint/observatory/special_locations.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 --------
 :mod:`pint.observatory.topo_obs`
 """
+
 import astropy.units as u
 import numpy as np
 from astropy.coordinates import EarthLocation
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ def load_special_locations():
     # Need to initialize one of each so that it gets added to the list
     BarycenterObs("barycenter", aliases=["@", "ssb", "bary", "bat"], overwrite=True)
     GeocenterObs("geocenter", aliases=["0", "o", "coe", "geo"], overwrite=True)
-    T2SpacecraftObs("stl_geo", aliases=["STL_GEO"], overwrite=True)
+    T2SpacecraftObs("stl_geo", aliases=["STL_GEO", "spacecraft"], overwrite=True)
     # TODO -- How to handle user changing bipm_version?
 
 

tests/test_toa_create.py

@@ -266,6 +266,24 @@ def test_toas_fermi_notoalist():
     assert np.all(toas.table == toas2.table)
 
 
+def test_geocenter():
+    toas = toa.get_TOAs(
+        io.StringIO(
+            """pint 0.000000 57932.5446286608075925 4.321 stl_geo  -format Tempo2 -creator nicer -mjdtt 57932.5454294 -tely -2783.63069101 -telx 6119.42973459 -telz -890.7794845 -nsrc 18.34 -obsid 70020101 -t NICER -vy 4.04867262 -vx 2.69970132 -dphi 0.20496 -nbkg 430.66 -vz 5.92980989 -exposure 1543.0
+pint 0.000000 57933.6326461481560532 2.422 stl_geo  -format Tempo2 -creator nicer -mjdtt 57933.6334469 -tely -4545.24145649 -telx 3799.22279181 -telz -3304.56529985 -nsrc 101.96 -obsid 70020102 -t NICER -vy 1.48403228 -vx 5.86477721 -dphi 0.20355 -nbkg 2394.04 -vz 4.70930058 -exposure 8100.71
+"""
+        )
+    )
+    toas2 = toa.get_TOAs(
+        io.StringIO(
+            """pint 0.000000 57932.5446286608075925 4.321 spacecraft  -format Tempo2 -creator nicer -mjdtt 57932.5454294 -tely -2783.63069101 -telx 6119.42973459 -telz -890.7794845 -nsrc 18.34 -obsid 70020101 -t NICER -vy 4.04867262 -vx 2.69970132 -dphi 0.20496 -nbkg 430.66 -vz 5.92980989 -exposure 1543.0
+pint 0.000000 57933.6326461481560532 2.422 spacecraft  -format Tempo2 -creator nicer -mjdtt 57933.6334469 -tely -4545.24145649 -telx 3799.22279181 -telz -3304.56529985 -nsrc 101.96 -obsid 70020102 -t NICER -vy 1.48403228 -vx 5.86477721 -dphi 0.20355 -nbkg 2394.04 -vz 4.70930058 -exposure 8100.71
+"""
+        )
+    )
+    assert np.all(toas == toas2)
+
+
 def test_toa_wb():
     t = pulsar_mjd.Time(np.array([55000, 56000]), scale="utc", format="pulsar_mjd")
     obs = "gbt"