Abstract
Supersonic outflows and jets are associated with various types of astrophysical objects such as young stellar objects (YSOs e.g., HH 30, HH 34), active galactic nuclei (AGNs e.g., M87), high mass X-ray binaries (HMXB e.g., SS433, Cyg X-3), black hole transients (or microquasars; e.g., GRS 1915+105, GRO 1655-40), low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB e.g., Cir X-1). The physics to explain these ou…