tune extraction padding parameters to minimize ringing #82
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This PR adjusts the boundary pixels and wavelengths used in the overlapping extraction patches, following the optimization study in DESI-6081 presented at the 2021-01-19 DESI Data telecon. This minimizes residuals at the patch boundaries. In particular, it fixes the divot at 9477 Angstroms reported in desihub/desispec#1101:
This also fixes some off-by-one indexing bugs discovered while debugging this.
I'd like to include this with the cascades run so I plan self-merge. Tests pass locally and this branch was additionally tested with real data to make the above plot; I may or may not wait for Travis tests.