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 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 47 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU A | 47 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Durham B | 47 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 47 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 48 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | William Woods | 48 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 48 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 48 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 48 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 48 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield A | 48 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Ottawa | 48 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 48 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 52 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 52 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Maryland C | 52 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 52 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | North Carolina A | 53 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 53 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 55 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Maggie Li | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 71 | -5 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 71 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 71 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota A | 76 | -5 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia C | Alberta | 76 | -5 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Vassar A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Durham A | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 80 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 80 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Yale A | 88 | -5 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 88 | -5 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Guelph A | 89 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 90 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | City St George's A | 91 | 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Penn A | 92 | -5 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago C | 93 | -5 |
| Simon Burstein | Virginia B | Liberty A | 94 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 94 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 94 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 110 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 110 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 110 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | BC A | 126 | 0 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Brown A | 126 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 126 | 0 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 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 |
| 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 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 126 | 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 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 126 | 0 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |