feat: new convenience methods on BeamInterface #5481

Job	Run time
Run Tests (macos-latest, 3.10)	6m 18s
Run Tests (macos-latest, 3.11)	5m 46s
Run Tests (macos-latest, 3.12)	8m 3s
Run Tests (windows-latest, 3.10)	7m 36s
Run Tests (windows-latest, 3.11)	7m 49s
Run Tests (windows-latest, 3.12)	9m 30s
Run Tests (macos-13, 3.12, pyuvdata_tests)	25m 8s
Performance Benchmark (macos-latest, 3.12)	3m 55s
Performance Benchmark (windows-latest, 3.12)	7m 3s
Performance Benchmark (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	4m 3s
Performance Benchmark (macos-13, 3.12, pyuvdata_tests)	9m 7s
	1h 34m 18s

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