Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2016
It is well known that the intrinsic colors of Be stars are not the same as those of “normal” B stars and they are often redder. So interstellar absorption of Be stars determined from photometric indices may be overestimated. In order to avoid this, a method often used to determine the interstellar absorption of Be stars is based on the ultraviolet interstellar absorption bump at 2200 Å (Dorschner 1975; Nandy et al. 1975, 1976). However some peculiar Be stars exist whose circumstellar matter contributes to the 2200 Å bump (Savage et al. 1978). The aim of this work is to test the deredenning method from the 2200 Å bump for “classical” Be stars, in determining the interstellar absorption in the region of the Be star, using the surrounding normal stars.