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With a Saturnian magnetopause average stand-off distance of about 21\udplanetary radii, Titan spends most of its time inside the rotating magnetosphere of\udits parent planet. However, when Saturn's magnetosphere is\udcompressed due to high solar wind dynamic pressure, Titan can\udcross Saturn's magnetopause in the subsolar region of its orbit and therefore\udto interact with the shocked solar wind plasma in Saturn's magnetosheath. This\udsituation has been observed during the T32 flyby of the Cassini spacecraft on\ud13 June 2007. Until a few minutes before closest approach, Titan had been\udlocated inside the Saturnian magnetosphere.\udDuring the flyby, Titan encountered a sudden change in the direction and\udmagnitude of the ambient magnetic field. The density of the ambient plasma also\udincreased dramatically during the pass.\udThus, the moon's exosphere and\udionosphere were exposed to a sudden change in the upstream plasma conditions.\udThe resulting reconfiguration of Titan's plasma tail has been studied in\udreal-time by using  a three-dimensional, multi-species hybrid simulation\udmodel. The hybrid approximation treats the electrons of the plasma as a massless,\udcharge-neutralizing fluid, while ion dynamics are described by a kinetic\udapproach. In the simulations, the magnetopause crossing is modeled by a sudden change of the\udupstream magnetic field vector as well as a modification of the upstream\udplasma composition. We present real-time simulation results, illustrating how\udTitan's induced magnetotail is reconfigured due to magnetic reconnection. The\udsimulations  allow to determine a characteristic time scale for the erosion of\udthe original magnetic draping pattern that commences after Titan\udhas crossed Saturn's magnetopause. Besides, the influence of the plasma\udcomposition in the magnetosheath on the reconfiguration process is discussed\udin detail.\udThe question of whether the magnetopause\udcrossing is likely to yield a detachment of Titan's exospheric tail from the\udsatellite is investigated as well

Titan's plasma environment during a magnetosheath excursion: Real-time scenarios for Cassini's T32 flyby from a hybrid simulation