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% Acknowledge infrastructure and people that supported you in your thesis. This can also cover family, friends, etc.

I gratefully acknowledge my supervisors \thesisFirstSupervisor and \thesisSecondSupervisor for guiding me through the process.

I thank my family and friends for supporting me.

This thesis made use of the experimental setups, laboratory and technical infrastructure, general resources and observational facilities of the Institute of Physics of the University of Graz. This thesis also made use of infrastructure, which was supported by NAWI Graz. 


% you may also list missions, telescopes, data bases or code packages you have used. Copy here the predefined sentence you are requested on the project webpage to cite. Also make sure that you cite the requested papers, as mentioned in the text below. 
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%\textit{Software:} \texttt{Python} \citep{10.5555/1593511}, 
%\texttt{numpy} \citep{numpy,Harris_2020},  
%\texttt{matplotlib} \citep{4160265},  
%\texttt{scipy} \citep{2020SciPy-NMeth}, 
%\texttt{pandas} \citep{reback2020pandas, mckinney-proc-scipy-2010}.
%This research made use of \texttt{astropy} \citep{astropy:2013, astropy:2018}., a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy. 
This research made use of pandas \citep{reback2020pandas, mckinney-proc-scipy-2010}.
This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy \citep{astropy:2013, astropy:2018}.
This research made use of SciPy \citep{2020SciPy-NMeth}.
This research made use of matplotlib, a Python library for publication quality graphics \citep{4160265}.
This research made use of NumPy \citep{numpy,Harris_2020}.
This research made use of Astroquery \citep{astroquery}.

This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. 

This paper includes data collected by the Kepler mission and obtained from the MAST data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Funding for the Kepler mission is provided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5–26555.

This paper includes data collected with the TESS mission, obtained from the MAST data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Funding for the TESS mission is provided by the NASA Explorer Program. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5–26555.

% acknowledge FUNDING that you have received as financial support  

%acknowledge sources of funding like a travel grant or a Erasmus fellowship, e.g.:
I gratefully acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P30949-N36 (PI: xxx) for supporting this project. 
