Drizzlepac (runastrodriz): Determine reason for dataset reverting to GCS242 WCS

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Issue HLA-1165 was created on JIRA by Michele De La Pena:

Dataset jdn022r[361elt]q. Files for debugging: jdn022r3q stored in █████████████████

16 November 2023

Differences noted between HSTDP-2023.20 and HSTDP-2023.30 where the WCS got "worse" in the latest build.

When looking at the FLC images, The GAIA sources are well identified. The GSC242 sources are not as distinct and there is no overlap in the identified sources with GAIA. The GAIA results are essentially the same between the two regression tests. However, the TOTAL RMS ('max_rms') found for the GSC242 improved between the processings. The preferred threshold is for the TOTAL RMS <= 20.0 which none of the processings achieved. The GSC242 presumably improved because some suspect sources were culled (num_matches 46 -> 32). What I am wondering about is:

(1) how the RA and DEC RMS values are computed with respect to the TOTAL RMS as the GSC242 result got much worse, and (2) what threshold changed to decrease the number of presumably bogus matches in the GSC242 case.

===== HSTDP-2023.2.0 GAIAeDR3 relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 25.447, 'num_matches': 22, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 3} GSC242 relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 28.460, 'num_matches': 46, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 3} 2MASS relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 100000, 'num_matches': 0, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 5}

      RA_RMS   Dec_RMS

GAIAeDR3 22.637 27.408 GSC242 29.851 41.522

===== HSTDP-2023.3.0 GAIAeDR3 relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 25.499, 'num_matches': 22, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 3} GSC242 relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 24.336, 'num_matches': 32, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 3} 2MASS relative {'valid': True, 'max_rms': 100000, 'num_matches': 0, 'compromised': False, 'reason': '', 'fit_qual': 5}

      RA_RMS   Dec_RMS

GAIAeDR3 22.593 27.539 GSC242 42.966 49.917