[en] On 15 September 2017 the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere after 13 years of successful exploration of the Saturnian system. The day before, the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on board Cassini observed Saturn's northern aurora for about 14 h. During these observations, several auroral structures appeared, providing clues about processes simultaneously occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere. The observed dawn auroral enhancement together with the magnetic eld and plasma wave data suggest that an intense flux closure process took place in the magnetotail. This enhanced magnetotail reconnection is likely caused by a magnetospheric compression induced by an interplanetary shock. Additionally, a polar arc is observed on the duskside, tracked for the rst time from its growth until its quasi-disappearance, and used as an indicator of reconnection location on the dayside magnetopause. Observation of an atypical auroral arc at very high latitudes supports the interplanetary shock scenario.
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STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
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Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
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Palmaerts, Benjamin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Radioti, Aikaterini ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Grodent, Denis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Yao, Zhonghua ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Bradley, T. J.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
Roussos, E.; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Lamy, L.; LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France
Bunce, E.J.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
Cowley, S. W. H.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
Krupp, N.; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Kurth, W. S.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, IO, USA
Gérard, Jean-Claude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
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