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 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 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 47 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 47 | -5 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Ottawa | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Clemson B | 48 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan 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 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 48 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 55 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 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 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Durham A | 80 | -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 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 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 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 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 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | UIC | 101 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 101 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 101 | -5 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 103 | -5 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 103 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois C | 104 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | Toronto K | 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 |
| 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 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | RIT A | 118 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Bowdoin A | 124 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 125 | 0 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt B | 125 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto D | 126 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 126 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 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 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 126 | 0 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |