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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Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Penn B (DII) | 30 | -5 |
Alex Lin (DII) | Rutgers B | Maryland A (DII) | 31 | 10 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 35 | -5 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | NYU B | 35 | -5 |
Emma Victoria Byron (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 35 | -5 |
Benjamin S | Maryland B | Columbia A | 35 | -5 |
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | 39 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Penn A (DII) | 55 | -5 |
Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Columbia B | 62 | 10 |
Derek C | Columbia A | Maryland B | 107 | 10 |
Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 109 | 0 |
Leonard Castine (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Fordham A | 109 | 10 |
Caedmon Holland (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 109 | 10 |