The Short Gamma-Ray Burst Revolution

1 Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 3 Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, United Kingdom 5 Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany 6 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA 7 Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 8 Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain 9 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 10 Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands