Parkes observations for project P1124 semester 2021OCTS_08

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The progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have been highly debated in past decade. The discovery of a bright radio burst from a Galactic magnetar, SGR 1935+2154, implies that some of faint FRBs can originate from normal magnetars. A recent short gamma-ray bursts (GRB 200415A) from a nearby galaxy turned out to be caused by magnetar giant flare. If a fraction of SGRBs and repeating FRBs share similar magnetars as progenitors, we could expect to detect fast radio transients from some suspicious magnetar-driven SGRBs. Here we propose to observe two sources with possible magnetar progenitors, in particular, a total observing time of 32 hours is requested. If detections made, we would confirm the association of progenitors of both FRBs and SGRBs and directly uncover the origin of extragalactic FRBs for at least one population.