Parkes observations for project P1050 semester 2021APRS_03

Brief description

This is a request for observing time for the timing campaign of new pulsar discoveries from the reprocessing of the low-latitude Galactic plane section of the HTRU survey (P630). We have now completed 80 % of the survey with GPU based coherent acceleration search, template bank and fast folding algorithm pipelines, and now have discovered 68 previously unknown pulsars and 21 "class A" pulsars awaiting confirmation.
Interesting science can usually only be derived from a new pulsar after confirmation and a follow-up timing campaign is carried out. One year of initial timing is the minimum timespan required to fully characterise any newly-discovered pulsars, essential for deriving pulsar parameters such as the characteristic age, magnetic field strength, spin-down rate, as well as to detect any unexpected behaviour of the pulsar which might result from emission instabilities. This timing project is necessary for the timing of the new double neutron star (DNS) system J1325-6253 discovered last semester and for following up our confirmed/to-be confirmed new pulsars from the HTRU Galactic plane survey. Pulsars on the observing list here have been confirmed and remaining candidates will be confirmed in the current 2020OCTS semester, the follow-up timing in 2021APRS will produce completely new and exciting results. In addition, this timing project will allow us to measure the advance of periastron of PSR J1325-6253, true Galactic plane pulsar population and boundaries of pulsar parameter space in the galactic plane.