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The quality of the images was validated according to the procedure described by Adams et al. 2022. The direction-dependent calibration allowed us to achieve a significant improvement of the quality of the individual images compared to the automatic pipeline without DD-calibration. This is illustrated in the Figure below.

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This is quantified by the fraction of compound-beam images that pass the Apertif quality validation, which increased from 40 % using the default pipeline to 98 % with the new pipeline.

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