Parkes observations for project P1013 semester 2019APRS_02

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The paucity of known intermittent pulsars makes individual studies valuable from the perspective of understanding how these pulsars emit and how that emission is changing in time and as a function of frequency. The inherent difficulty in detecting these objects implies that their small population may well simply be a sampling bias, thus studying individual examples in details is fundamentally important in developing a complete understanding of the Galactic population. The Ultra-Wide-Band receiver and the MEDUSA backend provide unprecedented frequency coverage and will allow us to study the emission of the intermittent pulsar J1107-5907 in great detail. In particular, we will focus on the spectral characteristics of the emission, the frequency dependence of emission rates and the time scales on which the emission state switching occurs. By constraining the intermittency time scales we will be able to comment on model predictions, while the spectral index analysis will provide insights into the emission mechanism itself.