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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Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton B | 33 | -5 |
Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 35 | -5 |
Brian Chen | Cornell G | RIT C | 35 | -5 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | ESF | 35 | 10 |
Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell F | 39 | -5 |
Alec West | Syracuse | Cornell E | 39 | -5 |
Orion Hoch | Cornell C | U of Rochester B | 40 | -5 |
Sammy Carstens | U of Rochester B | Cornell C | 55 | 0 |
Victor Bender | Penn State | Binghamton C | 67 | -5 |
Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | RIT A | 94 | 10 |
Jake Cobovic | Binghamton C | Penn State | 108 | 10 |
Jonathan Zhang | Cornell F | RIT B | 108 | 10 |
Vincent Misterkiewicz | Cornell E | Syracuse | 109 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 109 | 10 |
Claire Wang | RIT C | Cornell G | 109 | 0 |