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Fast radio bursts from well beyond our Milky Way galaxy have recently been discovered using the Parkes telescope. These bursts have been seen around the world, prompting a flurry of activity among astronomers eager to uncover the origins of these enigmatic deep-space messengers. The observations that we propose will test a possible hypothesis for where the bursts come from: that is, that they are associated with the few thousand year-old remnants of massive stellar explosions (supernovae) in nearby galaxies. We will observe two galaxies that are rapidly forming stars (and hence often host supernovae) in the hope that we detect fast radio bursts. If no bursts are detected, we will have shown that they come from well beyond the nearby Universe, and likely represent events that haven't even crossed our imagination.
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