1917 20160701171655.0 10.1051/0004-6361:20011406 DOI ASTROimport-74 Mathias, P. 2001 Spectroscopic monitoring of 10 new northern slowly pulsating B star candidates discovered from the HIPPARCOS mission A one-year follow-up campaign of high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise spectroscopy for 10 candidate slowly pulsating B stars, which were discovered from the HIPPARCOS astrometric mission, shows that all stars exhibit line-profile variability. From our data, and from the HIPPARCOS photometry, we conclude that all but one of the targets provide evidence of multiperiodicity, with periods of the order of days, confirming their pulsational nature. Thus they are confirmed slowly pulsating B stars. We summarize the pulsation periods and Q-values and select the most interesting targets for very-long-term follow-up observations with the goal of performing asteroseismology. Based on observations obtained at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence. Aerts, C. Briquet, M. De Cat, P. Cuypers, J. Van Winckel, H. Le Contel, J. M. Astronomy and Astrophysics 379 2001 905-916 http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2001A%26A...379..905M published in REFERD