MUSIC is a new multi-color (sub)millimeter camera scheduled to be
commissioned at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) in the fall of
2011. It is simultaneously sensitive to four bands at 150, 225, 290, and
345 GHz, and has a 14 arcminute field of view, large enough to fully cover
galaxy clusters at moderate to high redshifts (z > 0.3). We present the
expected performance and envisioned science programs for MUSIC with
regards to pointed observations of galaxy clusters via the
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We plan to make deep observations of ~20 well
studied, massive clusters with the aim of detecting non-thermal pressure
support at the cluster outskirts and deviations from hydrostatic
equilibrium, as well as measuring the scaling relations between SZ and
X-ray, optical, and lensing observables. We also plan to follow-up 250
clusters from the Planck Cluster Catalog with the aim of calibrating the
Y-M scaling relation, examining its evolution with redshift, and
quantifying the bias and scatter in the PCC selection function due to SZ
morphology.
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