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The core-dominated radio-loud quasar PKS 0637-752 (z = 0.654) was the first celestial object observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, offering the early surprise of the detection of a remarkable X-ray jet. Several observations with a variety of detector configurations contribute to a total exposure time with the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS; Garmire et al. 2000, in preparation) of about 100 ks. A spatial analysis of all the available X-ray data, making use of Chandra's spatial resolving power of about 0.4 arcsec, reveals a jet that extends about 10 arcsec to the west of the nucleus. At least four X-ray knots are resolved along the jet, which contains about 5% of the overall X-ray luminosity of the source. Previous observations of PKS 0637-752 in the radio band (Tingay et al. 1998) had identified a kpc-scale radio jet extending to the West of the quasar. The X-ray and radio jets are similar in shape, intensity distribution, and angular structure out to about 9 arcsec, after which the X-ray brightness decreases more rapidly and the radio jet turns abruptly to the north. The X-ray luminosity of the total source is log L X ≈ 45.8 erg s −1 (2 − 10 keV), a and appears not to have changed since it was observed with ASCA in November 1996. We present the results of fitting a variety of emission models to the observed spectral distribution, comment on the non-existence of emission lines recently reported in the ASCA observations of PKS 0637-752, and briefly discuss plausible X-ray emission mechanisms. a We use H0 = 50 km s −1 Mpc −1 and q0 = 0 throughout

We present an exploratory Chandra ACIS-S3 study of the diffuse component of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) in the 0.3-7 keV band for four directions at high Galactic latitudes, with emphasis on details of the ACIS instrumental background modeling. Observations of the dark Moon are used to model the detector background. A comparison of the Moon data and the data obtained with ACIS stowed outside the focal area showed that the dark Moon does not emit significantly in our band. Point sources down to 3 Â 10 À16 ergs s À1 cm À2 in the 0.5-2 keV band are excluded in our two deepest observations. We estimate the contribution of fainter, undetected sources to be less than 20% of the remaining CXB flux in this band in all four pointings. In the 0.3-1 keV band, the diffuse signal varies strongly from field to field and contributes between 55% and 90% of the total CXB signal. It is dominated by emission lines that can be modeled by a kT ¼ 0:1 0:4 keV plasma. In particular, the two fields located away from bright Galactic features show a prominent line blend at E % 580 eV (O vii+O viii) and a possible line feature at E $ 300 eV. The two pointings toward the North Polar Spur exhibit a brighter O blend and additional bright lines at 730-830 eV (Fe xvii). We measure the total 1-2 keV flux of 1:0 1:2 AE 0:2 ð Þ Â 10 À15 ergs s À1 cm À2 arcmin À2 (mostly resolved) and the 2-7 keV flux of 4:0 4:5 AE 1:5 ð Þ Â 10 À15 ergs s À1 cm À2 arcmin À2 . At E > 2 keV, the diffuse emission is consistent with zero, to an accuracy limited by the short Moon exposure and systematic uncertainties of the S3 background. Assuming Galactic or local origin of the line emission, we put an upper limit of $3 Â 10 À15 ergs s À1 cm À2 arcmin À2 on the 0.3-1 keV extragalactic diffuse flux.

The quasar PKS 0637-752, the first celestial X-ray target of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, has revealed asymmetric X-ray structure extending from 3 to 12 arcsec west of the quasar, coincident with the inner portion of the jet previously detected in a 4.8 GHz radio image (Tingay et al. 1998). At a redshift of z = 0.651, the jet is the largest (∼ 100 kpc) and most luminous (∼ 10 44.6 ergs s −1 ) of the few so far detected in X-rays. This letter presents a high resolution X-ray image of the jet, from 42 ks of data when PKS 0637-752 was on-axis and ACIS-S was near the optimum focus. For the inner portion of the radio jet, the X-ray morphology closely matches that of new ATCA radio images at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz. Observations of the parsec scale core using the VSOP space VLBI mission show structure aligned with the X-ray jet, placing important constraints on the X-ray source models. HST images show that there are three small knots coincident with the peak radio and X-ray emission. Two of these are resolved, which we use to estimate the sizes of the X-ray and radio knots. The outer portion of the radio jet, and a radio component to the east, show no X-ray emission to a limit of about 100 times lower flux.The X-ray emission is difficult to explain with models that successfully account for extra-nuclear Xray/radio structures in other active galaxies. We think the most plausible is a synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model, but this would imply extreme departures from the conventional minimum-energy and/or homogeneity assumptions. We also rule out synchrotron or thermal bremsstrahlung models for the jet X-rays, unless multicomponent or ad hoc geometries are invoked. 11 We use H 0 = 50 km s −1 Mpc −1 and q 0 = 0 throughout

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