Parkes observations for project P574 semester 2008OCTS

We request time to observe 160 pulsars on a regular basis in\r\norder to provide accurate ephemerides necessary for the detection\r\nof gamma-ray pulsars with the GLAST and AGILE satellites.\r\nThe main science goals are to increase the number\r\nof known gamma-ray pulsars (both radio loud and radio quiet), to determine\r\naccurate pulse profiles, to characterise their high energy spectra and\r\nphase resolved spectroscopy of the brightest pulsars.\r\nIn the radio, the observations will also allow us to find glitches, \r\ncharacterise timing noise, investigate dispersion and rotation measure \r\nvariability and enhance our knowledge of single pulse phenomenology.\r\nWe expect this program to continue for the ~5 years of the\r\nGLAST and AGILE missions.