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Description
The most powerful cosmic engines in our universe are fueled by compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. These cosmic engines accrete large amounts of material and eject matter in the form of jets traveling at near the speed of light. Recent groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from systems harbouring compact objects and the direct imaging of the black hole shadows with the Event Horizon Telescope, represent major steps forward in our understanding of such systems. However, there exists a huge population of stellar-mass compact objects in our own Galaxy, present in transient X-ray binaries, which provide much more ideal laboratories by providing a real-time view of the behaviour of these objects and their dynamic environments. In this talk, I will review the key role that MAXI has played in identifying these explosive galactic transients, highlighting how we can leverage radio observations of these systems to track the path of material from inflow to outflow and gain unique insights into the accretion/jet ejection process.
