Feature request: Vectorize search_lightcurve API

[jkrick]

Problem description

I am running a code which searches for light curves of many objects, currently I am testing with 30, but would like to run this on a much larger sample. My code would be faster if it didn't have to wrap those search_lightcurve calls in a for loop. Is it possible to vectorize this API call?

Example

import lightkurve as lk

# Build a list of skycoords from target ra and dec
ra_list = [0.5, 23.9, 49.2]
dec_list = [88.2, 1.5, 37.9]
coords_list = [
    SkyCoord(ra, dec, frame='icrs', unit='deg')
    for ra, dec in zip(ra_list, dec_list)
]
# it would be nice if this was the case
search_result = lk.search_lightcurve(coords_list, radius = 1)

Expected behavior

This would return the light curves for all objects

Environment

• platform (e.g. Linux, OSX, Windows):
• lightkurve version (e.g. 1.0b6):
• installation method (e.g. pip, conda, source):

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[christinahedges]

@jkrick thank you for opening a new issue! This sounds like a great feature, we'll have a chat in the team about how this might get implemented.