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Pin PSFEx's compiled-in SAMPLE_* candidate cuts explicitly in default.psfex

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Refactor
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tooling

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Edit workflow/config/cfis/default.psfex and compare its SAMPLE_* settings with the compiled-in values from psfex -dd in the develop-runtime image. Record the listed candidate-cut defaults explicitly, retain SAMPLE_AUTOSELECT N, and remove the [HARDCODED] marker so the decision record can assert the configuration.

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workflow/config/cfis/default.psfex sets SAMPLE_AUTOSELECT N and leaves every other SAMPLE_* key to PSFEx's compiled-in defaults — a second PSF-star selection no config records. From psfex -dd in the develop-runtime image (PSFEx 3.21.1): SAMPLE_MINSN 20, SAMPLE_MAXELLIP 0.3, SAMPLE_FWHMRANGE 2.0,10.0, SAMPLE_VARIABILITY 0.2, SAMPLE_FLAGMASK 0x00fe, SAMPLE_WFLAGMASK 0x0000, SAMPLE_IMAFLAGMASK 0x0, BADPIXEL_FILTER N. Which of these still act with autoselect off is not stated in the PSFEx docs (MAXELLIP alone is a real cut on the PSF-star sample). Write them into default.psfex explicitly so the decision record (#875, star_selection_psf.psfex_candidate_vetting) can assert them and a PSFEx upgrade cannot move them silently; the [HARDCODED] marker then goes.

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