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The _Low-Frequency Array Very Long Baseline Interferometry_ (LOFAR-VLBI) pipeline is a calibration and imaging pipeline that includes all of LOFAR’s international stations.
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It looks and solves for delays using an in-field calibrator within the field of view of the pointing.
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The pipeline provides:
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The pipeline primarily provides:
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* solution tables written in a file in the [hierarchical data format](https://www.hdfgroup.org/) (version 5), referred to as an h5parm,
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* solution tables written in a file in the [hierarchical data format](https://www.hdfgroup.org/) (HDF, version 5), referred to as an h5parm,
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* a self-calibrated, corrected dataset for the in-field calibrator.
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* concatenated bands of target data that have been corrected for phase and instrumentation errors.
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The delay solutions are applied back to the original data.
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From there the pipeline can split out smaller datasets in the desired target direction(s) within the field of view.
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|:exclamation: **NOTE**: The LOFAR-VLBI pipeline is only able to process data that meets the [Data Requirements](data-requirements).|
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