quenching اسرش osereš Fr.: étouffement, découpage, étanchement, assèchement; trempe The process of extinguishing, removing, or diminishing a physical property.
In the dealing with star formation in galaxies, the
term quenching has been used with two different meanings.
Either to indicate the termination of the star
formation activity, or the process of maintaining a galaxy quiescent
over its lifetime, despite the fresh fuel produced by stellar
evolution and gas inflows. Given the substantially different
timescales involved in the two processes, it remains debated whether
one single mechanism is responsible for both the onset and the
maintenance of quenching (Man and Belli, 2018, arXiv:1809.00722).
See also: Verbal noun, → quench + → -ing. |
