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_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941089#comment-941089):_ [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) I am currently in the debugger. Once I am done I will save the Drizzlepac version of the whtarr and...

_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941130#comment-941130):_ [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) I have put the images of interest on the Linux systems (dlhlalab#) in /home/mdelapena/ForRick/WHT_MASKS. There is a README which just...

_Comment by [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941258#comment-941258):_ [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) Got it! The initialization of the `master_mask` array (which indicates the pixels remaining to be included in masks) needs to...

_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941468#comment-941468):_ [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) I have implemented the Rick improved *make_wht_masks()_ function in the _catalog_utils.py* module with some light editing of variable names. I...

_Comment by [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941497#comment-941497):_ [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) That looks promising! Probably we need to reduce the detection threshold parameter for all the segment catalogs as a result...

_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941498#comment-941498):_ [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) There are two "nsigma" values in the catalog configuration file, one for custom/gaussian PSF and one for the RickerWavelet case. ...

_Comment by [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=941646#comment-941646):_ [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) I agree that getting the `photutils` changes working first sounds like a good plan. Before we start fiddling with detection...

_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=942428#comment-942428):_ [Rick White](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rlw) Yes, the software being tested for this ticket contains the fix done in HLA-1362 (minimum RMS).

_Comment by [Michele De La Pena](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mdelapena) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1407?focusedCommentId=942961#comment-942961):_ This ticket is PR#⁠1939 which was tested and merged on 04 February 2025.

_Comment by [Steve Goldman](https://jira.stsci.edu/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=sgoldman) on [JIRA](https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/HLA-1550?focusedCommentId=984525#comment-984525):_ will be closed by STWCS PR [#⁠231](https://github.com/spacetelescope/stwcs/pull/231).