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 |
| 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 |
| Alex Irvine | Sheffield C | Durham B | 47 | -5 |
| David Yuan | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 47 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Pitt B | 48 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 48 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | William Woods | 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 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 48 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 48 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Clemson B | 48 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 48 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Michigan B | 48 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Purdue A | 48 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Purdue C | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 49 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 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 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Kenyon A | 80 | -5 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 80 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | James Madison | 80 | -5 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 80 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Durham A | 80 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 80 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 80 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 91 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 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 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 101 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 101 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | UIC | 101 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 103 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 103 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 110 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 110 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 110 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Alabama B | 110 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto C | 126 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 126 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 126 | 0 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 126 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Rutgers B | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Catholic University | 126 | 0 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | NYU B | 126 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU D | 126 | 0 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 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 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto D | 126 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 126 | 0 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 126 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | ERAU A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 126 | 10 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |