We report null results on a two year photometric search for outburst predictors in SS Cyg. Observations in Johnson V and Cousins I were obtained almost daily for multiple hours per night for two observing seasons. The accumulated data are put through various statistical and visual analysis techniques but fails to detect any outburst predictors. However, analysis of 102 years of AAVSO archival visual data led to the detection of a correlation between a long term quasi-periodic feature at around 1,000-2,000 days in length and an increase in outburst rate.
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@article{arxiv.0710.2937,
title = {A Search for SS Cyg Outburst Predictors},
author = {A. Price and A. A. Henden and G. Foster and V. Petriew and R. Huziak and R. James and M. D. Koppelman and J. Blackwell and D. Boyd and S. Brady and Lewis M. Cook and T. Crawford and B. Dillon and B. L. Gary and B. Goff and K. Graham and K. Holland and J. Jones and R. Miles and D. Starkey and S. Robinson and T. Vanmunster and G. Walker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2937},
year = {2007}
}