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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+- family-names: "Pfau-Kempf"
+  given-names: "Yann"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5793-7070"
+- family-names: "Ganse"
+  given-names: "Urs"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0872-1761"
+- family-names: "Battarbee"
+  given-names: "Markus"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7055-551X"
+- family-names: "Kotipalo"
+  given-names: "Leo"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5298-0747"
+- family-names: "Koskela"
+  given-names: "Tuomas"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5813-6539"
+- family-names: "von Alfthan"
+  given-names: "Sebastian"
+- family-names: "Honkonen"
+  given-names: "Ilja"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9542-5866"
+- family-names: "Alho"
+  given-names: "Markku"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9762-6795"
+- family-names: "Sandroos"
+  given-names: "Arto"
+- family-names: "Papadakis"
+  given-names: "Konstantinos"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3307-6015"
+- family-names: "Zhou"
+  given-names: "Hongyang"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4571-4501"
+- family-names: "Palmu"
+  given-names: "Miro"
+- family-names: "Grandin"
+  given-names: "Maxime"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6373-9756"
+- family-names: "Suni"
+  given-names: "Jonas"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3369-4761"
+- family-names: "Tarvus"
+  given-names: "Vertti"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7350-1509"
+- family-names: "Pokhotelov"
+  given-names: "Dimitry"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3712-0597"
+- family-names: "Hokkanen"
+  given-names: "Jaro"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0010-4718"
+- family-names: "Haaja"
+  given-names: "Veeti"
+- family-names: "Mendez Pratt"
+  given-names: "Audrey"
+- family-names: "Lalagüe"
+  given-names: "Arnaud"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1958-366X"
+- family-names: "Horaites"
+  given-names: "Konstantinos"
+  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0759-2964"
+title: "Vlasiator"
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3640593
+date-released: 2024-09-12
+url: "https://github.com/fmihpc/vlasiator"