1d light curve collation utility function

[SamSandwich07]

Introduces collate_utils.py to put utility functions for collation. Adds one such utility function which can be used to pad and mask raw 1D light curves, along with a test for this function.

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[mtauraso]

Generally this seems alright to merge. I worry that it is not generic enough to be generally useful (but perhaps I simply haven't been part of the discussions here)

I'm lightly suggesting that we try to talk to folks who would use these collation utilities and try to generalize this, add documentation and examples so we get the full value here. I think a lot of this is human conversational/requirements gathering work, likely leading to a relatively small amount of new code. Not sure if we're on that path yet, but it seems like one we should consider.