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termination shock

noun

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  1. The boundary marking one of the outer limits of the Sun's influence, where the solar wind…

    The boundary marking one of the outer limits of the Sun's influence, where the solar wind dramatically slows.

    • Studying the role of the termination shock and that of the heliosheath in cosmic ray modulation with numerical models has become most relevant since Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock on 16 December 2004 (e.g. Burlaga et al., 2005).

  2. That point for space around any star.

  3. A rapid and damaging rise in temperatures once solar geoengineering measures are stopped.

    • If a larger SRM deployment were phased out sufficiently slowly, the rate of warming could be limited, and termination shock avoided, even where it exerted a very large cooling effect.

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