Parkes observations for project P814 semester 2015OCTS_BPSR_02

During the past 6 years, we at Parkes and collaborators at other
radio telescopes have been remarkably successful at discovering
millisecond pulsars (MSPs) associated with unidentified Fermi-LAT
gamma-ray sources. Based on lessons learned, we here propose to
extend our P814 project: thus far we have discovered 11 MSPs in
repeated 1-hour searches at 1.4 GHz of 56 unidentified LAT sources
with spectral characteristics that are consistent with those of
known pulsars. Because of interstellar scintillation, large orbital
acceleration, and eclipses, it is important to search the most
highly ranked sources multiple times. Here we propose to reobserve
14 high Galactic latitude unidentified Fermi sources so that we end
up with four separate observations of each; and to observe four
times each the six most highly ranked unidentified sources selected
from the third Fermi-LAT source catalogue (3FGL) that have not yet
been searched at Parkes. The overall time request is 61 hours on
source, or 67 hours including overheads.