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 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Durham B | 47 | -5 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 47 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU A | 47 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 47 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 48 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 48 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 48 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 48 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 48 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 48 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield A | 48 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 49 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 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 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 52 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Maryland C | 52 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 52 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 52 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 52 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 53 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | North Carolina A | 53 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 55 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 55 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | FIU | 60 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 60 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Mason B | 64 | -5 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Chicago D | 64 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 71 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| Maggie Li | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 71 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 71 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 80 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 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 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 80 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Durham A | 80 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 80 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Kenyon A | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | James Madison | 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 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | VCU A | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 91 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Penn A | 92 | -5 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago C | 93 | -5 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 94 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 94 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Burstein | Virginia B | Liberty A | 94 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 101 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 101 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | UIC | 101 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 110 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt B | 125 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 125 | 0 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 126 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 126 | 0 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 126 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | ERAU A | 126 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 126 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 126 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | BC A | 126 | 0 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 126 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 126 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto D | 126 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto C | 126 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 126 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Chicago B | 126 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 126 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 126 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Michigan D | 126 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Brown A | 126 | 0 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 126 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 126 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 126 | 0 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 126 | 10 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |