Parkes observations for project P1088 semester 2020OCTS_02

Brief description

We propose a targeted pulsar survey of twelve candidate sources that display interplanetary scintillation or linear polarisation in lower frequency observations using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Known pulsars have been detected using these characteristics. We request 12 hours of Parkes observations using the UWL receiver and back-end to conduct a sensitive and thorough pulsar search using novel techniques. Targeted searches for pulsars using imaging surveys have been revived in recent years due to the availability of new sensitive, broadband, widefield surveys using SKA precursors/pathfinders, and have already resulted in pulsar discoveries. Discovering new pulsars provides prospects for many science cases because pulsars provide powerful probes of the ISM and fundamental physics either individually or as a population.