Parkes observations for project P816 semester 2012APRS

We propose to perform multiple 90--120 minute baseband observations of
the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833--45) with the CASPSR (CASPER Parkes
Swinburne Recorder) backend. The high bandwidth (~300 MHz at
20cm, 400MHz at 10cm) and detailed 8-bit sampling allow
unprecedently high signal-to-noise (S/N) measurements of the Stokes
parameters down to the scattering timescale for every
single pulse. Further, the relatively long observations will yield
the largest sets of high S/N single pulses (~240,000 at 10cm
and ~120,000 at 20cm) providing the statistics needed to study
tails of the phase-resolved flux distributions. Although the dataset
will be large (~24 TB), we anticipate its high quality will make
it of broad interest and have made provisions for long-term
availability of both the raw and processed data.