Connecting the progenitors, pre-explosion variability, and giant outbursts of luminous blue variables with Gaia16cfr

Charles D. Kilpatrick, Ryan J. Foley, Maria R. Drout +10

We present multi-epoch, multi-colour pre-outburst photometry and post-outburst light curves and spectra of the luminous blue variable (LBV) outburst Gaia16cfr discovered by the Gai…