termination shock

Definition

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

Example Sentences

• "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)."
• "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."