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 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Southampton B | 43 | -5 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 43 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Durham B | 47 | -5 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU A | 47 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 47 | 10 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 47 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 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 Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 48 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 48 | -5 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 48 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 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 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 49 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | LSE A | 50 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 50 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA D | 51 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 52 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 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 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 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 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 71 | -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 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota A | 76 | -5 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Vassar 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 |
| 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 Kung | North Carolina C | James Madison | 80 | -5 |
| Henry L'Heureux | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 80 | 10 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 80 | 10 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | -5 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 80 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 91 | -5 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 91 | -5 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | VCU 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 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Burstein | Virginia B | Liberty A | 94 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 101 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 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 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 110 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 110 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Alabama B | 110 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 110 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 110 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 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 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto C | 126 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 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 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Brown A | 126 | 0 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 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 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 126 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 126 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |