The brightness of SN 1991T and the uniformity of decline-rate and colour   corrected absolute magnitudes of supernovae Ia
  We present a distance to NGC 4527, the host galaxy of the type Ia SN 1991T, measured by surface brightness fluctuations. This supernova has been labelled ``peculiar'' both on the grounds of its spectroscopic behaviour and its apparent overluminosity with respect to other supernovae. The distance modulus to NGC 4527 and thus to SN 1991T is 30.26+-0.09. This relatively short distance largely removes the discrepancy with other Ia supernovae having similar light-curve characteristics and also removes the motivation for interpreting SN 1991T as a super-Chandrasekhar explosion. However, the reddening uncertainty results in significant uncertainty of the absolute magnitudes. 
T. Richtler (1), J.B. Jensen (2), J. Tonry (3), B. Barris (3), G.   Drenkhahn (4) ((1) Universidad de Concepcion, (2) Gemini...