Large-scale turbulent driving regulates star formation in high-redshift
  gas-rich galaxies
  The question of what regulates star formation is a long standing issue. To
investigate this issue, we run simulations of a kiloparsec cube section of a
galaxy with three kinds of stellar feedback: the formation of HII regions, the
explosion of supernovae, and the UV heating. We show that stellar feedback is
sufficient to reduce the averaged star formation rate (SFR) to the level of the
Schmidt- Kennicutt law in Milky-Way like galaxies but not in high-redshift gas
rich galaxies suggesting that another type of support should be added. We
investigate whether an external driving of the turbulence such as the one
created by the large galactic scales could diminish the SFR at the observed
level. Assuming that the Toomre parameter is close to 1 as suggested by the
observations, we infer a typical turbulent forcing that we argue should be
applied parallel to the plane of the galactic disc. When this forcing is
applied in our simulations, the SFR within our simulations closely follows the
Schmidt- Kennicutt relation. We found that the velocity dispersion is strongly
anisotropic with the velocity dispersion alongside the galactic plane being up
to 10 times larger than the perpendicular velocity.
