Fixing the U-band photometry of Type Ia supernovae
  We present previously unpublished photometry of supernovae 2003gs and 2003hv.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 0.9-m,
1.3-m and Las Campanas 1-m telescopes. Previously, such light curves showed a
0.4 mag 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 to
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 Type Ia supernovae at face value, there is a 0.12 mag 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.
