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A key tool astronomers have to investigate the nature of extragalactictransients is their position on their host galaxies. Galactocentric offsets,enclosed fluxes and the fraction of light statistic are widely used atdifferent 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 highmass X-ray binaries on this image, using the available distance information.Galactocentric offsets, enclosed fluxes and fraction of light distributions forthese systems are compared to extragalactic transient samples. We find thatFRBs follow the distributions for Galactic neutron stars closest, with 24 (75per cent) of the Anderson-Darling tests we perform having a p-value greaterthan 0.05. This suggests that FRBs are located on their hosts in a mannerconsistent with Galactic neutron stars on the Milky Way's light, although wecannot determine which specific neutron star population is the best match. TheGalactic distributions are consistent with other extragalactic transients muchless often across the range of comparisons made, with type Ia SNe in secondplace, at only 33 per cent of tests exceeding 0.05. Overall, our resultsprovide further support for FRB models invoking isolated young neutron stars,or binaries containing a neutron star.

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