Wendy Freedman used infrared measurements to constrain these stars’ Wesenheit (“VESS-en-hite”) function. Observing that an equation concerning these stars depended on “population” prompted Walter Baade to recalculate the size of the known universe to double its previous estimate. Arthur Eddington proposed that compressing these stars’ outer layers causes an increase in opacity, an effect later known as the “kappa mechanism.” The Hubble constant was initially derived from observations of these stars in spiral galaxies, utilizing a linear relation between “M-sub-V” and “log P.” These standard candles are commonly used to calibrate distances to type Ia (“one-A”) supernovae and satisfy a period-luminosity relation discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt. For 10 points, name these variable stars. ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 73.50 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 112.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 112.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Oxford A | 31 | -5 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Southampton A | 36 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Sheffield A | 37 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | Imperial B | 39 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 56 | -5 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Michigan A | 58 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 58 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State A | 60 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto B | 64 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard | 65 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Imperial C | 66 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UCF A | 69 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Birmingham A | 69 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Edinburgh B | 69 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Princeton A | 72 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Edinburgh A | 72 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Warwick A | 72 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU A | 84 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Costigan | Sheffield C | Southampton B | 94 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland A | 96 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Carleton | 104 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA A | 112 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF B | 112 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester B | 112 | 0 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 112 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge D | 112 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | LSE B | 112 | 10 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | Sheffield C | 112 | 0 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Sheffield B | 112 | 0 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Warwick B | 112 | 0 |