Chakraborti, S, Soderberg, A, Chomiuk, L, Kamble, A, Yadav, N, Ray, A, Hurley, K, Margutti, R, Milisavljevic, D, Bietenholz, M, Brunthaler, A, Pignata, G, Pian, E, Mazzali, PA, Fransson, C, Bartel, N, Hamuy, M, Levesque, E, MacFadyen, A, Dittmann, J, Krauss, M, Briggs, MS, Connaughton, V, Yamaoka, K, Takahashi, T, Ohno, M, Fukazawa, Y, Tashiro, M, Terada, Y, Murakami, T, Goldsten, J, Barthelmy, S, Gehrels, N, Cummings, J, Krimm, H, Palmer, D, Golenetskii, S, Aptekar, R, Frederiks, D, Svinkin, D, Cline, T, Mitrofanov, IG, Golovin, D, Litvak, ML, Sanin, AB, Boynton, W, Fellows, C, Harshman, K, Enos, H, von Kienlin, A, Rau, A, Zhang, X and Savchenko, V A MISSING-LINK IN THE SUPERNOVA-GRB CONNECTION: THE CASE OF SN 2012ap http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2854/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/ Citation (please note it is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from this work) Chakraborti, S, Soderberg, A, Chomiuk, L, Kamble, A, Yadav, N, Ray, A, Hurley, K, Margutti, R, Milisavljevic, D, Bietenholz, M, Brunthaler, A, Pignata, G, Pian, E, Mazzali, PA, Fransson, C, Bartel, N, Hamuy, M, Levesque, E, MacFadyen, A, Dittmann, J, Krauss, M, Briggs, MS, Connaughton, V, LJMU Research Online