Young protostellar binary systems, with expected ages less than ~10⁵ years, are little modified since birth, providing key clues to binary formation and evolution. We present a first look at the young, Class 0 binary protostellar system R CrA IRAS 32 from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) ALMA large program, which observed the system in the 1.3 mm continuum emission, ¹²CO (2-1), ¹³CO (2-1), C¹⁸O (2-1), SO (6₅-5₄), and nine other molecular lines that trace disk, envelope, shocks, and outflows. With a continuum resolution of ~0.03^ (~5 au, at a distance of 150 pc), we characterize the newly discovered binary system with a separation of 207 au, their circumstellar disks, and a circumbinary disk-like structure. The circumstellar disk radii are 26.9±0.3 and 22.8±0.3 au for sources A and B, respectively, and their circumstellar disk dust masses are estimated as 22.5±1.1 and 12.4±0.6 M_. The circumstellar disks and the circumbinary structure have well aligned position angles and inclinations, indicating formation in a smooth, ordered process such as disk fragmentation. In addition, the circumstellar disks have a near/far-side asymmetry in the continuum emission suggesting that the dust has yet to settle into a thin layer near the midplane. Spectral analysis of CO isotopologues reveals outflows that originate from both of the sources and possibly from the circumbinary disk-like structure. Furthermore, we detect Keplerian rotation in the ¹³CO isotopologues toward both circumstellar disks and likely Keplerian rotation in the circumbinary structure; the latter suggests that it is probably a circumbinary disk.
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