Meanings
verbphotoevaporate (third-person singular simple present photoevaporates, present participle photoevaporating, simple past and past participle photoevaporated)
present singular third person photoevaporates · participle present photoevaporating · participle past photoevaporated · past photoevaporated
- astronomyTo ionise gas and cause it to disperse.
High-mass stars rapidly (~ 10⁵ yr) photoevaporate the outer (r > 5 AU) portions of their disks […]
2006 June 8, Sabine Richling, David Hollenbach, Harold W. Yorke, “Destruction of protoplanetary disks by photoevaporation”, in Hubert Klahr, Wolfgang Brandner, editor, Planet Formation: Theory, Observations, and Experiments, Cambridge University Press, page 40
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