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 |
| 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 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Clemson B | 48 | 10 |
| 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 Kohn | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 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 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | North Carolina A | 53 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 53 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 55 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 55 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 71 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 71 | -5 |
| Maggie Li | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee 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 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 80 | -5 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 80 | -5 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | Kenyon A | 80 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | James Madison | 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 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 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 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 94 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 110 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |