APS » Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 97 » Issue 22

A. Achterberg,³⁰ M. Ackermann,³² J. Adams,¹⁰ J. Ahrens,²⁰ K. Andeen,¹⁹ D. W. Atlee,²⁸ J. N. Bahcall,²⁴ X. Bai,²² B. Baret,⁸ M. Bartelt,¹² S. W. Barwick,¹⁵ R. Bay,⁴ K. Beattie,⁶ T. Becka,²⁰ J. K. Becker,¹² K.-H. Becker,³¹ P. Berghaus,⁷ D. Berley,¹¹ E. Bernardini,³² D. Bertrand,⁷ D. Z. Besson,¹⁶ E. Blaufuss,¹¹ D. J. Boersma,¹⁹ C. Bohm,²⁶ J. Bolmont,³² S. Böser,³² O. Botner,²⁹ A. Bouchta,²⁹ J. Braun,¹⁹ C. Burgess,²⁶ T. Burgess,²⁶ T. Castermans,²¹ D. Chirkin,⁶ B. Christy,¹¹ J. Clem,²² D. F. Cowen,^28,27 M. V. D'Agostino,⁴ A. Davour,²⁹ C. T. Day,⁶ C. De Clercq,⁸ L. Demirörs,²² F. Descamps,¹³ P. Desiati,¹⁹ T. DeYoung,²⁸ J. C. Diaz-Velez,¹⁹ J. Dreyer,¹² J. P. Dumm,¹⁹ M. R. Duvoort,³⁰ W. R. Edwards,⁶ R. Ehrlich,¹¹ J. Eisch,²⁵ R. W. Ellsworth,¹¹ P. A. Evenson,²² O. Fadiran,² A. R. Fazely,³ T. Feser,²⁰ K. Filimonov,⁴ B. D. Fox,²⁸ T. K. Gaisser,²² J. Gallagher,¹⁸ R. Ganugapati,¹⁹ H. Geenen,³¹ L. Gerhardt,¹⁵ A. Goldschmidt,⁶ J. A. Goodman,¹¹ R. Gozzini,²⁰ S. Grullon,¹⁹ A. Groß,¹⁴ R. M. Gunasingha,³ M. Gurtner,³¹ A. Hallgren,²⁹ F. Halzen,¹⁹ K. Han,¹⁰ K. Hanson,¹⁹ D. Hardtke,⁴ R. Hardtke,²⁵ T. Harenberg,³¹ J. E. Hart,²⁸ T. Hauschildt,²² D. Hays,⁶ J. Heise,³⁰ K. Helbing,³¹ M. Hellwig,²⁰ P. Herquet,²¹ G. C. Hill,¹⁹ J. Hodges,¹⁹ K. D. Hoffman,¹¹ B. Hommez,¹³ K. Hoshina,¹⁹ D. Hubert,⁸ B. Hughey,¹⁹ P. O. Hulth,²⁶ K. Hultqvist,²⁶ S. Hundertmark,²⁶ J.-P. Hülß,³¹ A. Ishihara,¹⁹ J. Jacobsen,⁶ G. S. Japaridze,² A. Jones,⁶ J. M. Joseph,⁶ K.-H. Kampert,³¹ A. Karle,¹⁹ H. Kawai,⁹ J. L. Kelley,¹⁹ M. Kestel,²⁸ N. Kitamura,¹⁹ S. R. Klein,⁶ S. Klepser,³² G. Kohnen,²¹ H. Kolanoski,⁵ L. Köpke,²⁰ M. Krasberg,¹⁹ K. Kuehn,¹⁵ H. Landsman,¹⁹ H. Leich,³² I. Liubarsky,¹⁷ J. Lundberg,²⁹ J. Madsen,²⁵ K. Mase,⁹ H. S. Matis,⁶ T. McCauley,⁶ C. P. McParland,⁶ A. Meli,¹² T. Messarius,¹² P. Mészáros,^27,28 H. Miyamoto,⁹ A. Mokhtarani,⁶ T. Montaruli,¹⁹ A. Morey,⁴ R. Morse,¹⁹ S. M. Movit,²⁷ K. Münich,¹² R. Nahnhauer,³² J. W. Nam,¹⁵ P. Nießen,²² D. R. Nygren,⁶ H. Ögelman,¹⁹ Ph. Olbrechts,⁸ A. Olivas,¹¹ S. Patton,⁶ C. Peña-Garay,²⁴ C. Pérez de los Heros,²⁹ A. Piegsa,²⁰ D. Pieloth,³² A. C. Pohl,²⁹ R. Porrata,⁴ J. Pretz,¹¹ P. B. Price,⁴ G. T. Przybylski,⁶ K. Rawlins,¹ S. Razzaque,^27,28 F. Refflinghaus,¹² E. Resconi,¹⁴ W. Rhode,¹² M. Ribordy,²¹ A. Rizzo,⁸ S. Robbins,³¹ P. Roth,¹¹ C. Rott,²⁸ D. Rutledge,²⁸ D. Ryckbosch,¹³ H.-G. Sander,²⁰ S. Sarkar,²³ S. Schlenstedt,³² T. Schmidt,¹¹ D. Schneider,¹⁹ D. Seckel,²² S. H. Seo,²⁸ S. Seunarine,¹⁰ A. Silvestri,¹⁵ A. J. Smith,¹¹ M. Solarz,⁴ C. Song,¹⁹ J. E. Sopher,⁶ G. M. Spiczak,²⁵ C. Spiering,³² M. Stamatikos,¹⁹ T. Stanev,²² P. Steffen,³² T. Stezelberger,⁶ R. G. Stokstad,⁶ M. C. Stoufer,⁶ S. Stoyanov,²² E. A. Strahler,¹⁹ T. Straszheim,¹¹ K.-H. Sulanke,³² G. W. Sullivan,¹¹ T. J. Sumner,¹⁷ I. Taboada,⁴ O. Tarasova,³² A. Tepe,³¹ L. Thollander,²⁶ S. Tilav,²² P. A. Toale,²⁸ D. Turan,¹¹ N. van Eijndhoven,³⁰ J. Vandenbroucke,⁴ A. Van Overloop,¹³ B. Voigt,³² W. Wagner,²⁸ C. Walck,²⁶ H. Waldmann,³² M. Walter,³² Y.-R. Wang,¹⁹ C. Wendt,¹⁹ C. H. Wiebusch,³¹ G. Wikström,²⁶ D. R. Williams,²⁸ R. Wischnewski,³² H. Wissing,³² K. Woschnagg,⁴ X. W. Xu,³ G. Yodh,¹⁵ S. Yoshida,⁹ and J. D. Zornoza¹⁹

(IceCube Collaboration)

¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
²CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA
³Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
⁴Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁵Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
⁶Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁷Science Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
⁸Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
⁹Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
¹⁰Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
¹¹Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
¹²Department of Physics, Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
¹³Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
¹⁴Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany
¹⁵Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
¹⁶Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
¹⁷Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom
¹⁸Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
¹⁹Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
²⁰Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
²¹University of Mons-Hainaut, 7000 Mons, Belgium
²²Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
²³Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
²⁴Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
²⁵Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA
²⁶Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
²⁷Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
²⁸Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
²⁹Division of High Energy Physics, Uppsala University, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden
³⁰Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht University/SRON, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
³¹Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
³²DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

On 27 December 2004, a giant flare from the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater 1806-20 saturated many satellite gamma-ray detectors, being the brightest transient event ever observed in the Galaxy. AMANDA-II was used to search for down-going muons indicative of high-energy gammas and/or neutrinos from this object. The data revealed no significant signal, so upper limits (at 90% C.L.) on the normalization constant were set: 0.05(0.5) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1 for =-1.47 (-2) in the gamma flux and 0.4(6.1) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1 for =-1.47 (-2) in the high-energy neutrino flux.

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