We present ultraviolet (UV) observations of six nearby Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, three of which were also observed in the near-IR (NIR) with Wide-Field Camera 3. UV observations with the Swift satellite, as well as ground-based optical and near-infrared data provide complementary information. The combined data-set covers the wavelength range 0.2-2 µm. By also including archival data of SN 2014J, we analyse a sample spanning observed colour excesses up to E(B−V) = 1.4 mag. We study the wavelength dependent extinction of each individual SN and find a diversity of reddening laws when characterised by the total-to-selective extinction R V . In particular, we note that for the two SNe with E(B − V) 1 mag, for which the colour excess is dominated by dust extinction, we find R V = 1.4 ± 0.1 and R V = 2.8 ± 0.1. Adding UV photometry reduces the uncertainty of fitted R V by ∼ 50 % allowing us to also measure R V of individual low-extinction objects which point to a similar diversity, currently not accounted for in the analyses when SNe Ia are used for studying the expansion history of the universe.
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