TATOOINE (The Attempt To Observe Outer-planets In Non-single-stellar Enviroments, the wild acronym by Matt Muterspaugh)

is a project aimed at detecting circumbinary planets around the brightest non eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binary stars using our novel radial velocity technique.

Co-PIs: Maciej Konacki & Matt Muterspaugh (Tennessee State University)

Collaborators: Shri Kulkarni (Caltech), Stanley Browne (UC Berkeley), Andrew Howard (UC Berkeley), Krzysztof Helminiak

You can find more in the following papers:

Konacki, M.; Muterspaugh, M.; Kulkarni, S. & Helminiak, K. 2010, High precision orbital and physical parameters of double-lined spectroscopic binary stars - HD78418, HD123999, HD160922, HD200077 and HD210027, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 719, p. 1293

Konacki, M.; Muterspaugh, M.; Kulkarni, S. & Helminiak, K. 2009, The Radial Velocity Tatooine Search for Circumbinary Planets: Planet Detection Limits for a Sample of Double-LinedBinary Stars - Initial Results from Keck I/Hires, Shane/CAT/Hamspec, and TNG/Sarg Observations, Astrophysical Journal, vol, 704, p. 513