astroquery.heasarch should parse units and preferably return a QTable
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Description
The following code snippet gives the below warning about capitalized units:
```
from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
import astropy.units as u
from astroquery.heasarc import Heasarc
coords = SkyCoord('150.01d 2.2d', frame='icrs') #COSMOS center acording to Simbad
#first get an X-ray catalog from Heasarc
heasarc = Heasarc()
table = heasarc.query_mission_list()
mask = (table['Mission'] =="CHANDRA")
chandratable = table[mask]
#want ccosmoscat
mission = 'ccosmoscat'
ccosmoscat_rad = 1 #radius of chandra cosmos catalog
ccosmoscat = heasarc.query_region(coords, mission=mission, radius='1 degree', resultmax = 5000, fields = "ALL")
#need to make the chandra catalog into a fits table
ccosmoscat.write('/tmp/COSMOS_chandra.fits', overwrite = "True")
```
```
WARNING: UnitsWarning: 'DEGREE' did not parse as fits unit: At col 0, Unit 'DEGREE' not supported by the FITS standard. If this is meant to be a custom unit, define it with 'u.def_unit'. To have it recognized inside a file reader or other code, enable it with 'u.add_enabled_units'. For details, see https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/units/combining_and_defining.html [astropy.units.core]
```
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Research direction
The payload names no source file or test. Start by reproducing the example through Heasarc.query_region, then trace how its radius and returned table are handled. Done means the requested unit parses without the capitalized-unit warning and the result meets the requested QTable behavior.
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- python
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- data
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