Question

According to a 2005 paper by Fischer et al, this quantity for the host star is a strong predictor of whether gas giants are likely to be detectable using Doppler spectroscopy. In 2022, astronomers discovered that objects in the C-19 stellar stream had an unusually low value for this quantity. High values of this quantity inhibit the reduction of outward pressure during pair production, thereby preventing pair-instability supernovae. Population (*) II stars located at the halos of spiral galaxies are low in this quantity, while Population III stars (10[1])have values of this quantity near zero. This quantity is denoted Z in the equation “X plus Y plus Z equals 1,” where X and Y represent the abundances of the two lightest elements. For 10 (10[1])points, name this quantity which measures the proportion of elements heavier than helium in a star. ■END■

ANSWER: metallicity [prompt on Z before mention]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley C8610
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley B12210

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%33%0%85.33
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%50%110.50
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%25%118.50
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%40%0%77.80
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%104.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%33%118.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y475%0%0%127.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y888%25%0%86.00
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%103.50