  The structure of magnetic polarons (ferrons) is studied for an 1D
antiferromagnetic chain doped by non-magnetic donor impurities. The conduction
electrons are assumed to be bound by the impurities. Such a chain can be
described as a set of ferrons at the antiferromagnetic background. We found
that two types of ferrons can exist in the system. The ground state of the
chain corresponds to the ferrons with the sizes of the order of the
localization length of the electron near the impurity. The ferrons of the
second type produce a more extended distortion of spins in the chain. They are
stable within a finite domain of the system parameters and can be treated as
excitations above the ground state. The ferrons in the excited states can
appear in pairs only. The energy of the excited states decreases with the
growth in density of impurities. This can be interpreted as a manifestation of
an attractive interaction between ferrons.
