# Astro2020 Science White Paper: Compact Stellar Jets

## TL;DR

This white paper emphasizes the significance of studying jets from compact binaries, especially X-ray binaries, to understand jet physics and their response to accretion flow changes, offering insights into jet phenomenology.

## Contribution

It highlights the unique role of X-ray binaries in studying jet physics due to their proximity, brightness, and variability, enabling detailed analysis of jet-accretion relationships.

## Key findings

- X-ray binaries allow detailed jet physics studies.
- Jet properties vary with accretion flow changes.
- Individual systems reveal trends not seen in large samples.

## Abstract

This paper outlines the importance of understanding jets from compact binaries for the problem of understanding the broader phenomenology of jet production. Because X-ray binaries are nearby and bright, have well-measured system parameters, and vary by factors of $\sim 10^6$ on $\sim$ year timescales, they provide a unique opportunity to understand how various aspects of the jet physics change in response to changes in the accretion flow, giving the possibility of looking for trends within individual systems and testing their universality with other systems, rather than trying to interpret large samples of objects on a statistical basis.