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References
1. H. Precht, J. Christophersen, H. Hensel, W. Larcher, Temperature and Life (Springer, Berlin,
Heidelberg, 1973)
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remotely detectable signs of life. Astrobiology 18, 663 (2018)
3. M. Perryman, The Exoplanet Handbook, 2nd edn. (Cambridge University Press, 2018). ISBN:
9781108419772
4. J.F. Kasting, D.P. Whitmire, R.T. Reynolds, Habitable zones around main sequence stars. Icarus
101, 108 (1993)
5. R.K. Kopparapu, R. Ramirez, J.F. Kasting et al., Habitable zones around main-sequence stars:
new estimates. Astrophys. J. 765, 131 (2013)
6. G. Vladilo, G. Murante, L. Silva et al., The habitable zone of earth-like planets with different
levels of atmospheric pressure. Astrophys. J. 767, 65 (2015)
7. L. Silva, G. Vladilo, P.M. Schulte et al., From climate models to planetary habitability: temperature constraints for complex life. Int. J. Astrobiol. 16, 244 (2017)
8. A. Clarke, The thermal limits to life on earth. Int. J. Astrobiol. 13, 141 (2014)
9. J. Ruben, The evolution of endothermy in mammals and birds: from physiology to fossils. Ann.
Rev. Physiol. 57, 69 (1995)
10. D.C. Catling, C.R. Glein, K.J. Zahnle, C.P. McKay, Why O 2 is required by complex life on
habitable planets and the concept of planetary “oxygenation time”. Astrobiology 5, 415 (2005)
11. G. Vladilo, A. Hassanali, Hydrogen bonds and life in the universe. Life 8, 1 (2018). https://
doi.org/10.3390/life8010001
12. C. Bustamante, D. Keller, G. Oster, The physics of molecular motors. Acc. Chem. Res. 34, 412
(2001)
13. P.M. Schulte, The effects of temperature on aerobic metabolism: towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of ectotherms to a changing environment. J. Exp. Biol. 218, 1856
(2015)
14. A. Provenzale, Anthropocene—natural and man-made alterations of the earth’s fragile equilibrium. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-013-0268-7
15. G.R. North, R.F. Cahalan, J.A. Coakley, Energy balance climate models. Rev. Geophys. Space
Phys. 19, 91 (1981)
16. D.S. Spiegel, K. Menou, C.A. Scharf, Habitable climates. Astrophys. J. 681, 1609 (2008)
17. D.M. Williams, J.F. Kasting, Habitable planets with high obliquities. Icarus 129, 254 (1997)
18. G. Vladilo, L. Silva, G. Murante, L. Filippi, A. Provenzale, Modeling the surface temperature
of earth-like planets. Astrophys. J. 804, 50 (2015)
19. J. Leconte, F. Forget, B. Charnay et al., Increased insolation threshold for runaway greenhouse
processes on earth-like planets. Nature 504, 268 (2013)
20. J.M. Jenkins, J.D. Twicken, N.M. Batalha, et al., Discovery and validation of Kepler-452b: a
1.6 R ⊕ super earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G2 star. Astron. J. 150, 56 (2015)
21. L. Silva, G. Vladilo, G. Murante et al., Quantitative estimates of the surface habitability of
Kepler-452b. Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. 470, 2270 (2017)
22. A. Bressan, P. Marigo, L. Girardi et al., PARSEC: stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova
and TRieste stellar evolution code. Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. 427, 127 (2012)
23. G. Murante, A. Provenzale, G. Vladilo et al., Climate bistability of earth-like exoplanets.
Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. 492, 2638 (2020)
24. G. Murante, M. Maris, E. Palazzi et al., Estimating planetary habitability in a wide parameterspace modelling study. EGU General Assembly Conf. Abstracts 6090 (2018)