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Accretion and jet processes have been observed in systems containing compact objects, i.e. white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, spanning a wide gamut of masses. Stellar systems seem to display the same kind of inflow-outflow coupling as AGN, but on timescales typically six to eight orders of magnitude shorter in proportion to mass. Although these processes are crucial for understanding outbursts, AGN feedback, black hole growth, and binary evolution, the connection between accretion and jet production is poorly understood. In this talk I will summarize the past few decades of research done in this field, and present recent observations of systems, including SS Cyg, V404 Cyg, and AGN, that have shed more light into understanding accretion and jet phenomena.
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