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@@ -676,6 +676,22 @@ real max_allowable_Delta_h_over_h \
} 0.1
#
+# To avoid the Newton iteration diverging (or more accurately, to detect
+# this divergence faster) if there is no horizon present or if the initial
+# guess is bad, we also deem any horizon with a mean radius (measured around
+# its local coordinate origin) larger than this to be "not found". The
+# default is effectively "no limit"; you should (re)set this to the
+# coordinate radius of a sphere with areal radius 4m or so, where m is
+# the ADM mass of the slice.
+#
+real max_allowable_horizon_radius \
+ "max mean-coordinate-radius allowed for any trial surface \
+ before we give up and say we can't find this horizon"
+{
+(0.0:* :: "any positive real number"
+} 1.0e10
+
+#
# convergence tolerance for the Newton iteration
#
real Theta_norm_for_convergence \