Ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers could directly probe the
existence of ultralight dark matter (O(10β14β10β11) eV/c2)
that couples to standard-model particles in the detectors. Recently, many
techniques have been developed to extract a variety of potential dark-matter
signals from noisy gravitational-wave data; however, little effort has gone
into ways to distinguish between types of dark matter that could directly
interact with the interferometers. In this work, we employ the Wiener filter to
follow-up candidate dark-matter interaction signals. The filter captures the
stochastic nature of these signals, and, in simulations, successfully
identifies which type of dark matter interacts with the interferometers. We
apply the Wiener filter to outliers that remained in the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA
search for dark photons in data from the most recent observing (O3), and show
that they are consistent with noise disturbances. Our proof-of-concept analysis
demonstrates that the Wiener filter can be a powerful technique to confirm or
deny the presence of dark-matter interaction signals in gravitational-wave
data, and distinguish between scalar and vector dark-matter interactions.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure