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Photo-erosion
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Photo-erosion is the dispersion of the outer layers of a prestellar core by the ionizing radiation of a nearby O-type or B-type star.
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This erosion prevents the accretion of these outer layers around the protostar at the centre of the core; and this, in turn, prevents the protostar from becoming a fully fledged star. The protostar instead becomes a brown dwarf or planetary-mass object.[1]
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