The synthesized beam is analogous to the point-spread function in a kind of these devices that measure visibility in u-v space, which is Fourier transformed to generate an image. Test masses suspended from four pendulums reduce seismic noise in one of these devices consisting of two four kilometer-long étalons (“ay-tuh-LON”). Some of these devices use aperture synthesis to achieve a resolution on the order of wavelength divided by baseline, which the EHT used to take the first image of a black hole. Two of these devices in Louisiana and Washington detected a 2017 neutron star merger, which was the first gravitational wave signal. The LIGO observatory uses Michelson’s design for these devices. For 10 points, what devices measure the phenomenon that occurs when two waves are superimposed? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.20 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 51.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 77% | 0% | 46% | 101.90 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 17% | 0% | 83% | 52.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 84.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 38% | 61.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 44% | 89.57 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 88.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 48.33 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 94.75 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 76.33 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 68.88 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 72.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 76.43 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 50% | 106.80 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 79% | 0% | 21% | 66.45 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 107.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Toronto A | 14 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | BU | 42 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 43 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Southampton B | 43 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 47 | 10 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Durham B | 47 | -5 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU A | 47 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 47 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 48 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | William Woods | 48 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Michigan B | 48 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Purdue A | 48 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Purdue C | 48 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 48 | -5 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Ottawa | 48 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Pitt B | 48 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Clemson B | 48 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 48 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 48 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 48 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 48 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 48 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 48 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 48 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield A | 48 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 49 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 50 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | LSE A | 50 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA D | 51 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 52 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 52 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 52 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Maryland C | 52 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 52 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 53 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | North Carolina A | 53 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 55 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 55 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | FIU | 60 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 60 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Chicago D | 64 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Mason B | 64 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 65 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | British Columbia B | 67 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue B | 68 | -5 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | McMaster B | 70 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 71 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| Maggie Li | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 71 | -5 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 71 | -5 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Vassar A | 76 | -5 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota A | 76 | -5 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia C | Alberta | 76 | -5 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 77 | -5 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 79 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 80 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Durham A | 80 | -5 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Kenyon A | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 80 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | James Madison | 80 | -5 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | -5 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 80 | 10 |
| Henry L'Heureux | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Harvard | 83 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Rochester | 86 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 88 | -5 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Yale A | 88 | -5 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Guelph A | 89 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 90 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 91 | -5 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 91 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | VCU A | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Penn A | 92 | -5 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago C | 93 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Burstein | Virginia B | Liberty A | 94 | -5 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 94 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 94 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Amherst B | 95 | -5 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Auburn B | 95 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 98 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | UIC | 101 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 101 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 101 | -5 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 103 | -5 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 103 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | Toronto K | 104 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois C | 104 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | CWRU D | 105 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Texas A | 106 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Virginia Tech B | 107 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McMaster C | 109 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Alabama B | 110 | -5 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 110 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 110 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 110 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 110 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 110 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | RIT A | 118 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Bowdoin A | 124 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 125 | 0 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt B | 125 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 126 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt A | 126 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 126 | 0 |
| Jakub Hel | UAB A | Georgia Tech A | 126 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 126 | 0 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 126 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Guelph B | 126 | 0 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Queen's B | 126 | 0 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McGill C | 126 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 126 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 126 | 0 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Chicago B | 126 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Michigan D | 126 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 126 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 126 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 126 | 0 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 126 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto D | 126 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto C | 126 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 126 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 126 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | ERAU A | 126 | 0 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Catholic University | 126 | 0 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 126 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | NYU B | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 126 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Rutgers B | 126 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU D | 126 | 0 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 126 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 126 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | BC A | 126 | 0 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Brown A | 126 | 0 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 126 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |