Comparison of model SEDs (continuous lines) with extinction corrected photometric data (stars with labels, error bars are small and difficult to see on this scale). Models are normalized to the V-band and parameters are adjusted to fit the IR excess as noted in Sect. 4.3. Color coding as follows: black – composite stellar spectrum; magenta – flat Be disk and accretion disk model (both models are essentially identical on this scale); blue – for comparison this illustrates a flat Be disk model if it were circumstellar to the B-type star and truncated at its Roche radius.