B. A. Zauderer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive catalog and analysis of broad-band afterglow observations for 103 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), comprised of all short GRBs from November 2004 to March 2015 with prompt follow-up observations in the X-ray, optical, near-infrared and/or radio bands.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the tidal disruption of a star naturally explains the observed high-energy properties and radio luminosity and the inferred rate of such events, and the weaker beaming in the radio-frequency spectrum relative to γ-rays or X-rays suggests that radio searches may uncover similar events out to redshifts of z ≈ 6.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present multi-wavelength observations of three gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with durations of several thousand seconds and demonstrate that these events are extragalactic transients; in particular, they resolve the long-standing conundrum of the distance of GRB 101225A (the "Christmas-day burst"), finding it to have a redshift z = 0.847 and showing that two apparently similar events (GRB 111209A and GRB 121027A) lie at z =0.677 and z = 1

TL;DR: The double explosion of SN 2009ip in 2012 raises questions about our understanding of the late stages of massive star evolution as discussed by the authors, which can be connected with documented mass-loss episodes in the previous years.

TL;DR: The Pan-STARRS1 discovery of the long-lived and blue transient PS1-11af was also detected by Galaxy Evolution Explorer with coordinated observations in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) band as discussed by the authors.