Question
One type of these bodies ceases to emit radiation at the so-called “death line.” A 2017 multi-messenger astronomy breakthrough involved measuring both gravitational waves and a gamma-ray burst from the merger of two of these bodies, known as a kilonova. An upper limit on these bodies’ mass is named for Tolman, Oppenheimer, and Volkov. A “glitch” is a small increase in the frequency emitted by rapidly rotating examples of these bodies called pulsars. Stars whose mass is just above the Chandrasekar limit form one of these bodies after a supernova instead of a white dwarf. For 10 points, what extremely dense celestial bodies are named for a subatomic particle? ■END■
ANSWER: neutron stars [accept pulsars until read; reject “stars”]
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 88% | 93.83 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 84.88 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 83% | 88.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 70% | 95.89 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 56% | 0% | 89% | 97.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 89.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 76.17 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 58.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jiping Fang | Illinois A | Indiana | 35 | -5 |
Arthur Zhang | Northwestern A | Illinois B | 35 | -5 |
Ishaan Singh | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 35 | 10 |
Sebastian Pujet | WashU A | Purdue A | 35 | 10 |
Emmett Cho | Chicago B | WashU B | 35 | -5 |
Vikas Kothari | Northwestern B | Chicago A | 42 | 10 |
Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Northwestern A | 53 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Purdue C | 53 | 10 |
Srivishnu Vusirikala | Illinois D | SIUE | 55 | 10 |
Steven Song | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 72 | 10 |
Sanika Iyer | Indiana | Illinois A | 74 | 10 |
Greta Thrasher | WashU B | Chicago B | 109 | 10 |