  In this article, we aim to provide the community with the dependence of the
habitable zone upon the stellar mass, metallicity, rotation, and for various
prescriptions of the limits of the habitable zone. We use the STAREVOL code to
study the evolution of the habitable zone and of the continuously habitable
zone limits. Mass and metallicity are the stellar parameters that have the most
dramatic effects on the habitable zone limits. Conversely, for a given stellar
mass and metallicity, stellar rotation has only a marginal effect on these
limits and does not modify the width of the habitable zone. The evolution of
the habitable zone limits is also correlated to the evolution of the stellar
activity (through the Rossby number) that depends on the stellar mass
considered. While the magnetic activity has negligible consequence in the case
of more massive stars, these effects may have a strong impact on the
habitability of a planet around M dwarf stars. Thus, stellar activity cannot be
neglected and may have strong impacts on the development of life during the
early stage of the continuously habitable zone phase of low-mass stars. Using
observed trends of stellar magnetic field strength we also constrain the
planetary magnetic field (at the zero order) required for a sufficient
magnetospheric protection during the whole stellar evolution. We explicit for
the first time the systematic dependence of planet habitability on stellar
parameters along the full evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars. These
results can be used as physical inputs for a first order estimation of
exoplanetary habitability.
