Main into develop after v0.8.6 patch release

[hakonanes]

Description of the change

Merge changes on the main branch into the develop branch after the recent 0.8.6 patch release.

Progress of the PR

• [x] Docstrings for all functions
• [x] Unit tests with pytest for all lines
• [x] Clean code style by running black via pre-commit

For reviewers

• [ ] The PR title is short, concise, and will make sense 1 year later.
• [ ] New functions are imported in corresponding __init__.py.
• [ ] New features, API changes, and deprecations are mentioned in the unreleased section in CHANGELOG.rst.
• [ ] New contributors are added to release.py, .zenodo.json and .all-contributorsrc with the table regenerated.