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Financial support from the State Research Agency (AEI) of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) under grant number PGC2018-097611-A-I00 is acknowledged. The 1.5-mGREGOR solar telescope was built by a German consortium under the leadership of the Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the Institute for Astrophysics Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen as partners, and with contributions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. I acknowledge the contribution of Teide High-Performance Computing facilities to the results of this research. TeideHPC facilities are provided by the Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER S.A.).
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Felipe, T. Signatures of sunspot oscillations and the case for chromospheric resonances. Nat Astron 5, 2–4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1157-5
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