Parkes observations for project P1347 semester 2024OCTS_01

A MeerKAT imaging survey of the Galactic Center and Bulge region yielded the detections of 39 known pulsars and 30 pulsar candidates. The candidates were identified primarily as steep-spectrum, circularly- and/or linearly-polarized sources, and to a lesser degree by the level of radio variability observed. We have chosen nine pulsar candidates to target in this proposal. These sources are the most pulsar-like of the MeerKAT point sources (based on their polarization, spectral index, and variability) that also have large enough flux densities to make a firm detection of pulsations if present. We propose to observe these nine candidates twice, for 1.5 hr each, in the 2024OCT semester.