FIXING THE U-BAND PHOTOMETRY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE
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We present previously unpublished photometry of supernovae 2003gs and 2003hv. Using spectroscopically derived corrections to the U-band photometry, we reconcile U-band light curves made from imagery with the Cerro Tololo 0.9m, 1.3m, and Las Campanas 1m telescopes. Previously, such light curves showed a 0.4mag spread at one month after maximum light. This gives us hope that a set of corrected ultraviolet light curves of nearby objects can contribute to the full utilization of rest-frame U-band data of supernovae at redshift 0.3-0.8. As pointed out recently by Kessler et al. in the context of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey supernova search, if we take the published U-band photometry of nearby TypeIa supernovae at face value, there is a 0.12mag U-band anomaly in the distance moduli of higher redshift objects. This anomaly led the Sloan survey to eliminate from their analyses all photometry obtained in the rest-frame U-band. The Supernova Legacy Survey eliminated observer frame U-band photometry, which is to say nearby objects observed in the U-band, but they used photometry of high-redshift objects no matter in which band the photons were emitted. 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Krisciunas, K., Bastola, D., Espinoza, J., Gonzalez, D., Gonzalez, L., Gonzalez, S., ... Suntzeff, N. B.
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Krisciunas, Kevin||Bastola, Deepak||Espinoza, Juan||Gonzalez, David||Gonzalez, Luis||Gonzalez, Sergio||Hamuy, Mario||Hsiao, Eric Y||Morrell, Nidia||Phillips, Mark M||Suntzeff, Nicholas B