Brief description Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond-duration radio transients first discovered by the Parkes telescope in 2007. They are believed to be produced by extremely compact objects at the distant Universe, and are therefore one of the most energetic phenomena. While extensive studies of FRBs have been carried out and close to 1000 FRBs have been found, we still do not know the origin of FRBs. Recently, a new FRB was detected in a globular cluster of a nearby galaxy, which rises some new questions since globular clusters are extremely old stellar systems. Here we propose to use the Parkes telescope to search for more FRBs from globular clusters in a very nearby galaxy, Centaurus A. We hope that such a survey will enable us to better understand the origin and properties of FRBs from old stellar systems.
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