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Mohamed Samy Abdallah, Bassam Aboona, Jaroslav Adam, Leszek Adamczyk, Joseph R. Adams, J. Kevin Adkins, Geydar Agakishiev, Ishu Aggarwal, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Zubayer Ahammed, A. Aitbaev, Igor G. Alekseev, Derek M. Anderson, Alexey Aparin, Elke Caroline Aschenauer, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, F. G. Atetalla, Georgy S. Averichev, Vipul Bairathi, W. Baker, Jonathan Gonzalo Ball Cap, Kenneth Barish, Arabinda Behera, Rene Bellwied, Pratibha Bhagat, Anju Bhasin, P. Bhattarai, Jaroslav Bielčík, Jana Bielčíková, Igor G. Bordyuzhin, James D. Brandenburg, Andrei V. Brandin, Xiang-Zhou Cai, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Daniel A. Cebra, Irakli Chakaberia, Petr Chaloupka, B. K. Chan, F-H. Chang, Z. Chang, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, D. Chen, J. Chen, J. H. Chen, X. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Cheng, Subikash Choudhury, William Christie, Xiaoxuan Chu, Henry J. Crawford, Máté Csanád, M. Daugherity, T. G. Dedovich, Ingo Martin Deppner, Anatoly A. Derevschikov, A. Dhamija, L. 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• Two-particle correlation measurements projected onto two-dimensional, transverse rapidity coordinates (yT1,yT2), allow access to dynamical properties of the QCD medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions that angular correlation measurements are not sensitive to. We report non-identified charged-particle correlations for Au + Au minimum-bias collisions at sNN−−−√ = 200 GeV taken by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Correlations are presented as 2D functions of transverse rapidity for like-sign, unlike-sign and all charged-particle pairs, as well as for particle pairs whose relative azimuthal angles lie on the near-side, the away-side, or at all relative azimuth. The correlations are constructed using charged particles with transverse momentum pT≥0.15 GeV/c, pseudorapidity from −1 to 1, and azimuthal angles from −π to π. The significant correlation structures that are observed evolve smoothly with collision centrality. The major correlation features include a saddle shape plus a broad peak with maximum near yT≈3, corresponding to pT≈ 1.5 GeV/c. The broad peak is observed in both like- and unlike-sign charge combinations and in near- and away-side relative azimuthal angles. The all-charge, all-azimuth correlation measurements are compared with the theoretical predictions of {\sc hijing} and {\sc epos}. The results indicate that the correlations for peripheral to mid-central collisions can be approximately described as a superposition of nucleon + nucleon collisions with minimal effects from the QCD medium. Strong medium effects are indicated in mid- to most-central collisions.