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■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 107.33 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 79% | 0% | 21% | 66.45 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 77% | 0% | 46% | 101.90 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 17% | 0% | 83% | 52.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 84.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 38% | 61.17 |
| North | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 44% | 89.57 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 88.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 94.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 76.33 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 68.88 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 72.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 76.43 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 50% | 106.80 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 48.33 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 51.00 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Rowan A | 48 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | Missouri B | 48 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | William Woods | 48 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Purdue C | 48 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Purdue A | 48 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Michigan B | 48 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 48 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 48 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 48 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 48 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 48 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 48 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield A | 48 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 48 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 48 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 49 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 49 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 49 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 55 | -5 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 55 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 55 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 59 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 71 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UF C | 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 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 94 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 94 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 110 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 110 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Alabama B | 110 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 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 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto C | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 126 | 0 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 126 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 126 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | ERAU A | 126 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 126 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 126 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 126 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Michigan D | 126 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 126 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 126 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | BC A | 126 | 0 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | Brown A | 126 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 126 | 0 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 126 | 0 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 126 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 126 | 10 |
| Jakub Hel | UAB A | Georgia Tech A | 126 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 126 | 0 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 126 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 126 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt A | 126 | 0 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 126 | 0 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 126 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | ESF | 126 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 126 | 0 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD B | 129 | 0 |