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A 0.2 M⊙ PROTOSTAR WITH A KEPLERIAN DISK IN THE VERY YOUNG L1527 IRS SYSTEM 1 2 3,4 5 John J. Tobin , Lee Hartmann , Hsin-Fang Chiang , David J. Wilner and Leslie W. 3 6,7 2 6 Looney , Laurent Loinard , Nuria Calvet , Paola D’Alessio 1Hubble Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903; jto- bin@ 2Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 3Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 4Institute for Astronomy and NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hilo, HI 96720 5Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138 6Centro de Radioastronom´ıa y Astrof´ısica, UNAM, Apartado Postal 3-72 (Xangari), 58089 Morelia, Michoac´an, M´exico 7Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Radioastronomie, Auf dem H¨ugel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany In their earliest stages, protostars accrete mass from their surrounding en- velopes through circumstellar disks. Until now, the smallest observed proto- star/envelope mass ratio was ∼2.1[1]. The protostar L1527 IRS is thought to be in the earliest stages of star formation[2]. Its envelope contains ∼1 M⊙ of material within a ∼0.05 pc radius[3, 4], and earlier observations suggested the presence of an edge-on disk[5]. Here we report observations of dust continuum emission and 13CO (J = 2 → 1) line emission from the disk around L1527, from which we determine a protostellar mass of M∗ = 0.19 ± 0.04 M⊙ and a proto- star/envelope mass ratio of ∼0.2. We conclude that most of the luminosity is generated through the accretion process, with an accretion rate of ∼6.6× 10−7 M⊙ yr−1. If it has been accreting at that rate through