Update absolute separation default. #1352
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This PR updates the default absolute separation used in tweakreg in romancal, as discussed in #1329.
Closes #1329.
If multiple sources within 'tolerance' can be found, tweakreg may fail. Accordingly, 'separation' should always be larger than 'tolerance.' The default for tweakreg were not consistent with this requirement, which led to a failure to tweak the WCS in some cases. This PR updates the default to avoid this case.
Regression tests fail due to very small differences in the stars that tweakreg selects for matching. This strikes me as okay. There's room in the future to choose better values for these parameters; they should by a few times larger than the expected uncertainty in the pointing. But this resolves the crashes @braingram was seeing.
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