Elisa Quintana

Elisa Victoria Quintana is an American scientist working in the field of astronomy and planetary science at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research focuses the detection and characterization of exoplanets in addition to studying how they form. She is best known for the detection of Kepler 186f,

2020 Honor Award - Equal Employment Opportunity Medal

Selected publications

Elisa Quintana has published numerous publications on topics in astronomy, specifically the Kepler mission.

Borucki, W. J., Koch, D., Quintana, E., Basri, G., Batalha, N., Brown, T., Caldwell, D.... & Prsa, A. (2010). Kepler planet-detection mission: introduction and first results. Science, 327(5968), 977-980.

Koch, D. G., Borucki, W. J., Quintana, E., Basri, G., Batalha, N. M., Brown, T. M., Caldwell, D.... & Wu, H. (2010). Kepler mission design, realized photometric performance, and early science. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 713(2), L79.

Jenkins, J. M., Caldwell, D. A., Chandrasekaran, H., Twicken, J. D., Bryson, S. T., Quintana, E. V.... & Borucki, W. J. (2010). Overview of the Kepler science processing pipeline. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 713(2), L87.

Quintana, E. V., Adams, F. C., Lissauer, J. J., & Chambers, J. E. (2007). Terrestrial planet formation around individual stars within binary star systems. The Astrophysical Journal, 660(1), 807.