The Galactic neutron star population I - an extragalactic view of the Milky Way and the implications for fast radio bursts

Understand

A key tool astronomers have to investigate the nature of extragalactic transients is their position on their host galaxies.

• Galactocentric offsets, enclosed fluxes and the fraction of light statistic are widely used at different wavelengths to help infer the nature of transient progenitors.
• Motivated by the proposed link between magnetars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), we create a face-on image of the Milky Way using best estimates of its size, structure and colour.
• We place Galactic magnetars, pulsars, low mass and high mass X-ray binaries on this image, using the available distance information.