Parkes observations for project P814 semester 2016OCTS

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, which so far has yielded 13 new MSPs in
repeated 1-hour searches at 1.4 GHz of unidentified LAT sources
with spectral characteristics that are consistent with those of
known pulsars. The coming 4FGL gamma-ray source catalog contains
hundreds of unidentified sources with better source-class discrimination
than previous catalogs. We have selected the "top 40" of these
sources suitable for Parkes searches. 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 observe 40 high Galactic latitude unidentified
Fermi sources three times each. The overall time request is 120
hours on source, or 132 hours including overheads.