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HLA-960: Improve Guiding Failure Check for MVM processing#2101

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Resolves HLA-960

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This PR improves the verify_guiding function which identifies exposures with guidance errors during MVM processing. The code change mainly tries to limit the number programs mis-identified as having guide star issues. These programs have exposures with linear-looking PSF spikes or CTE issues that are being confused as smeared stars.

An analysis of the impact of these changes can be found here: Improving MVMs Products Degraded by Guide Star Issues.

Checklist for maintainers

  • added entry in CHANGELOG.rst within the relevant release section
  • updated or added relevant tests
  • updated relevant documentation
  • added relevant label(s)

Regression test: https://github.com/spacetelescope/RegressionTests/actions/runs/26229493149

@s-goldman s-goldman requested a review from rlwastro November 17, 2025 14:34
@s-goldman s-goldman marked this pull request as ready for review November 17, 2025 14:35
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@s-goldman s-goldman requested review from mcara and nden November 25, 2025 20:51
@s-goldman s-goldman requested review from stscirij and removed request for nden January 12, 2026 14:01
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