"photoevaporate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "High-mass stars rapidly (~ 10⁵ yr) photoevaporate the outer (r > 5 AU) portions of their disks […]",
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        "To ionise gas and cause it to disperse."
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        "(astronomy, of energetic radiation or its source) To ionise gas and cause it to disperse."
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