Matt,

I have now opened up derived_quantities and inspected. By searching for n_ret=1, which seems to be what you are looking for, I was able to identify the AngularMomentumVector quantity also has only one return value. In that source code it returns an iterable of length 1. Based on this, I am going to suggest:

return [ct.sum(),]

Bingo, that worked. Thanks, also, for the reminder to inspect the source for hints :).

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