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- noun astronomy The removal of the
atmosphere of aplanet (or the disk of aprotoplanet ) by high-energyphotons from itssun or a nearby hotstar
Etymologies
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Their intense ultraviolet radiation heats the gas cloud and, in a process called "photoevaporation," sends it streaming off into space.
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The current observations do not strongly retain either the co-eval SFR or the consequence of photoevaporation from the more massive, high stellar-wind mass loss.
Missing Early Stars Found, With No Place Left to Hide | Universe Today 2010
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Since the globulettes are not screened from stellar light by dust clouds farther in, one would expect photoevaporation to dissolve the objects.
Universe Today 2008
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We calculate the expected lifetimes against photoevaporation.
Universe Today 2008
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