Analysis of Field Components Through SLAMS During Self-Reformation of Quasi-Parallel Shocks

Full particle simulations are used in order to analyze the formation and the dynamics of embedded SLAMS during the cyclic self-reformation of quasi-parallel shocks. Features of SLAMS (time and space scales, leading-trailing edges dissymetry, polarisation reversal) already identified in experimental data (Schwartz and al., 1992; Mann and al., 1994) are fully recovered. Complementary diagnosis are proposed in order to identify more precisely the features of field components through SLAMS structures during their formation, which could be used for analysing data issued from multi-satellites Cluster mission. Results will be extensively discussed and applied to "embedded" and "isolated" SLAMS.