photoevaporation love

photoevaporation

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun astronomy The removal of the atmosphere of a planet (or the disk of a protoplanet) by high-energy photons from its sun or a nearby hot star

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

photo- +‎ evaporation

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word photoevaporation.

Examples

  • Their intense ultraviolet radiation heats the gas cloud and, in a process called "photoevaporation," sends it streaming off into space.

    Witness At The Creation 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • We calculate the expected lifetimes against photoevaporation.

    Universe Today 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.