The reproducible radio outbursts of SS Cygni

This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP 120102393). We acknowledge the AAVSO network of variable star observers for providing the optical light curves of SS Cyg. JCAM-J is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT140101082). GRS acknowledges funding from an NSERC Discovery Grant. DA acknowledges support from the Royal Society. KLP acknowledges support from the UK Space Agency. This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economá y Competitividad (MINECO) under grant AYA2013-47447-C3-1-P (SM). This work has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. This research made use of APLpy, an open-source plotting package for PYTHON hosted at http://aplpy.github.com. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is a joint venture between Curtin University and the University of Western Australia, funded by the state government of Western Australia and the joint venture partners. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope is operated by the ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) with support from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO). The European VLBI Network is a joint facility of independent European, African, Asian and North American radio astronomy institutes. This research has made use of data and/or software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), which is a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC and the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.