Deformation of Rapidly Rotating Compact Stars

J. C. N. de Araujo, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, M. Cattani +1

We have developed a numerical code to study the deformation ($\epsilon =(I_{zz}-I_{xx})/I_{zz}$, where $I_{ii}$ are the moments of inertia) of neutron stars in rapidly rotation…