RADIO IMAGES OF SAGITTARIUS .2. SAGITTARIUS-C AND ITS NEIGHBORS

We have mapped the sky field around Sagittarius C in the VLA B, C, and D-configurations at 1616 MHz, and mapped molecular gas in the immedia te vicinity of Sgr C in the J = 1-0 line of (CO)-C-13. In the radiocon tinuum this region is littered with shells and loops and several filam ents (long, thin structures) aligned both along and across the Galacti c plane. The most prominent object is Sgr C itself, a shell-like HII r egion; this is adjacent and seemingly connected to a twisted or braide d nonthermal filament like that seen (on a finer and grander scale) in Sgr A. Higher resolution mapping of the Sgr C filament reinforces the impression that the same forces must act in both regions. A thermal f eature seen projected against the Sgr C filament also has a striking a nalog in the ''sickle'' feature (G0.18-0.04) in Sgr A. The molecular g as most obviously associated with Sgr C is seen around the radio recom bination-line velocity of -65 km s(-1); Sgr C itself appears to occupy a cavity within this (and perhaps other) material. The main body of t his neutral gas (M359.5-0.15) lies directly below Sgr C in Galactic la titude, abutting the (abrupt) southern terminus of the brightest porti on of the Sgr C filament. FIR emission occurs at one edge of the Sgr C shell, adjacent to but just outside the molecular cloud, perhaps in a photodissociation region at the neutral-ionized gas boundary.